Film legend Sophia Loren has successful surgery after fracturing a leg in a fall at home, agent says

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ROME — Movie legend Sophia Loren is recovering from profitable surgical procedure for a leg fracture after she fell in her Switzerland residence, an agent for the 89-year-old Italian actor stated Monday.

Agent Andrea Giusti stated in an e-mail that Loren fell in a rest room on Sunday and the surgical procedure was carried out later that day. The operation “went very nicely and now we solely want to attend,” Giusti stated.

The actress broke each her hip and a thigh bone, the agent stated.

It wasn’t instantly clear when Loren can be discharged from the hospital.

Loren has lived in a Swiss villa close to Lake Geneva for many years. Earlier this month, she appeared, wanting radiant, with Italian designer Giorgio Armani in Venice at a vogue present held on the sidelines of town’s annual movie pageant.

She celebrated her 89th birthday final week. She was scheduled to look at a restaurant that bears her identify in Bari, a metropolis in southern Italy, this however her fall pressured a cancellation of the occasion. Based on her agent, Loren gave the restaurant the best to make use of her identify and picture.