Maurizio Zanfanti

Maurizio "Zanza" Zanfanti (Rimini, 20 October 1955 – Rimini, 26 September 2018) was an Italian entrepreneur, considered a playboy and media personality of European fame.

Life Zanfanti operated mainly in Rimini and became internationally known for his conquests on the Romagna Riviera: he said he had more than 6,000 women and had done more for the Italian Riviera than "100 tourist agencies". He was defined as "the last playboy" or "the king of playboys" by the main newspapers of European nations. He died of a myocardial infarction aged 62, during sexual intercourse with a woman 40 years his junior in the back of a car.

The notoriety of Maurizio Zanfanti, who spoke English and Swedish and was born in a poor peasant family, began at the age of 17, after he started working, first as tout bringing in German and Scandinavian tourists and then "artistic director" in a well-known nightclub in Rimini called the Blow Up. In 1986, the periodical L'Espresso defined him as the lover most famous in Italy.

He first retired in 1995, aged 39 but the retirement did not last long. In his last interview with Bild in 2014, he announced his retirement, declaring that: "At 59, I'm too old for that."

Zanfanti personally managed the Chic nightclub in Rimini for many years, then sold the business when he was almost fifty years of age.

It is thought that Zanfanti fathered a total of 9 children in Germany and Scandinavia.

Zanfanti was known for drinking milk instead of alcoholic beverages.

Death The 62 year old Zanfanti was in his car, a Mitsubishi Pajero, with a 25-year-old Romanian woman when he suffered a sudden illness around 2 in the morning. Once there, the rescuers could not do anything and declared his death. According to reconstructions, his heart stopped during or immediately after sexual intercourse in Rimini. His lover asked for help and the parish priest refused to make the church available for her funeral, they were celebrated in the Rimini cemetery.