Nadia Toffa

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Nadia Toffa
Toffa in 2014
Born	(1979-06-10)10 June 1979 Brescia, Italy
Died	13 August 2019(2019-08-13) (aged 40) Brescia, Italy
Alma mater	University of Florence
Occupations	Journalist television presenter
Known for	Le Iene

Nadia Toffa (10 June 1979 – 13 August 2019)

After graduating in Literature at the University of Florence, Toffa made her first television appearance at the age of 23 on the Emilia-Romagna local channel Telesanterno, while from 2005 to 2009 she worked for Retebrescia, a local channel of her hometown Brescia.

Le Iene

In 2009, at the age of 30, Toffa became a reporter for the television programme Le Iene, recording numerous reports. Among the most famous are those on alleged scams carried out by pharmacies against the national health service, on the proliferation of slot machine rooms, on illegal waste disposal in Campania at the hands of the Camorra, on the growing rate of tumours in the "triangle of death" between Naples and Caserta and on the "land of poisons" in Crotone.

On 21 November 2017 Toffa presented a report on an allegedly dangerous nuclear experiment kept hidden in the

She was awarded the Ischia International Journalism Award "Special Prize – Television Presenter of the Year" in 2015.^[4]

In 2017, hers was the third most searched-for personal name on Google worldwide.^[2][5]

In 2018, several fake news alleging her death appeared on various websites, before she denied such allegations. In the same years, she found out to be a victim of false advertising, after a fake interview and deepfake videos of her appeared online, showing the journalist 'promoting' Chocolite, an alleged weight loss beverage.^[2][6] These fake news alleged that she had shed 30 kg in one month by using the aforementioned product.

Illness and death

On 2 December 2017, Toffa suffered a collapse during a report in

On 13 August 2019, at 07:39 at age 40, Toffa died from