ROME – Italian producer Carlo Ponti, who discovered a teenage Sophia Loren, launched her film career and later married her despite threats of bigamy charges and excommunication, has died in Geneva.

ITALIAN icon Sophia Loren is globally recognized for her award-winning performance in the ’60s film, Two Women. The 89-year-old accredited actress was married to Carlo Ponti for over 50 years… ...

ROME — Carlo Ponti, the Italian producer and husband of Sophia Loren, died overnight in a hospital in Switzerland, his family said today. He was 94.

ROME – Carlo Ponti’s greatest production may have been his half-century romance with Sophia Loren. They were an unlikely couple. He was short, bald and, well, paunchy.

The great Italian film star Sophia Loren is, of course, famous for the work that she has done on screen over the past seven ...

The Italian star had two sons, Carlo Ponti Jr. and Edoardo Ponti, with her late movie producer husband Carlo Ponti, who died in January 2007. Both of Loren's sons have paved successful career paths in ...

Carlo Ponti, the man who plucked Sophia Loren from obscurity, married her and made her a huge star, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Geneva at the age of 94. He had suffered a brief illness.

Fox411: Sophia Loren's extensive career, passionate love affair with Cary Grant and lasting marriage to husband Carlo Ponti are explored in the new book, 'Sophia Loren: Movie Star Italian Style.' ...

In 1958, Loren made her first trip to New York with her husband, producer Carlo Ponti (shown here on W. 33rd St.). She and Ponti, 91, have two sons, Carlo Jr., born in 1969, and Edoardo, born in 1973.

Stamped and inscribed; Front right margin: "Exclamation Point, 1962, AP wire photo, AP wire story" Verso: stamp 'Sophia Loren Received Examiner--Reference Library--Apr 11, 1962" Right margin: "Italian ...

ROME — Carlo Ponti’s greatest production may have been his half-century romance with Sophia Loren. They were an unlikely couple. He was short, bald and, well, paunchy. She seems eternally ...

Gallery: Click here for pictures of Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren's life together Ponti worked with well-known directors, including Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lean.