Oriana Fallaci - Death

Death

Fallaci died on 15 September 2006, in her native Florence, from lung cancer. She was a lifelong heavy smoker. She is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo, (Italy), alongside her family and a stone memorial to Alexandros Panagoulis, her companion.

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