Italian journalist and Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Lorenzo Soria passed away peacefully on Friday August 7th at his home in Los Angeles. He was 68. After discovering he had lung cancer in early 2017, Soria wrote a message for his family and his friends that was meant to be found and read after his passing;

the letter sat in his drawer for more than three years, until his wife Lilla, his son Max and his longtime friend and fellow journalist Armando Gallo read it as an ode to him just after attending his funeral at the Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City.