Valeriu Lazarov or Valerio Lazarov (December 20, 1935, Bârlad, Romania – August 11, 2009, Tres Cantos, Spain) was a Romanian-born television producer and director of several TV channels from Romania, Spain and Italy.[1][2][3][4]

Valeriu Lazarov in April 2008

He defected to Spain in 1968, and was hired the same year by Juan José Rosón to work for RTVE.[5][6] He became a Spanish citizen in 1972.[7]

He was married seven times: twice in Romania before he defected to Spain in 1968, then in 1970, in Miami, to Cuban singer Elsa Baeza (with whom he has a son; they divorced in 1973), in 1978 to American actress Didi Sherman (they divorced in 1983), with whom he had two children, in 1989 to Italian Adonella Azzoni (divorced in 1996), with whom he has two children, to Sonia Costa (between 2001 and 2002), and in 2004, in Madrid, to Romanian Augusta Dumitraşcu, who is about 40 years his junior.[5][7][8]

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  1. ^ El País
  2. ^ Evenimentul Zilei
  3. ^ "Cleveland.com". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
  4. ^ Romanian TV Producer Valeriu Lazarov Dies At 73
  5. ^ a b ""M-am căsătorit de fiecare dată când am iubit!"" (in Romanian). Libertatea. 15 August 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Muere el padre de la TV de los 70" (in Spanish). 12 August 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Valeriu Lazarov a murit în această noapte, la Madrid" (in Romanian). Adevarul. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  8. ^ "INTERVIU Augusta Lazarov: "A fost chimie între mine şi Valeriu"" (in Romanian). Adevarul. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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