A lonely Italian retiree who was “adopted” by a family last year after his pleas for company in classified ads, has fled, leaving behind a big dentist’s bill and bounced checks.
Giorgio Angelozzi, 80, skipped out on the family in Bergamo, northern Italy, before a dentist’s bill for $2,860 arrived. Two checks Angelozzi sent to cover the costs turned out to have been stolen from another family that took him in.
“He wasn’t the granddad we wanted. He got on well with mom, but when we talked to him about our stuff, he got bored,” said Dagmara Riva of the retired classics teacher to whom her parents gave a home.
Angelozzi was inundated with offers from as far away as New Zealand, Brazil and the United States before he opted to live with the Riva family.
Police are now hunting for the man who used to live alone with seven cats. The retiree's story has also caught the eye of a movie producers, who have been in touch with the Rivas.
