Rehabilitation
In September 1986, the Court of Appeal of Naples fully acquitted Tortora. In 1987 the Supreme Court definitively affirmed Tortora's total innocence, and he started an action against those magistrates who had unjustly tried and sentenced him.
After four long years, he returned to his work in TV, to a moving comeback in his popular Portobello show in February 1987. Tortora, a profoundly changed man, simply said "Well then, where did we leave off?" He developed cancer and died in May 1988, some say because of the emotional stress of his imprisonment. He became an icon of injustice and a perpetual reminder of one of the gravest public blunders of the Italian judiciary system.
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