Fashion producer and television host Mariano Caprarola passed away this Thursday, August 17 as a result of kidney failure acute derived from a surgery that the questioned doctor had performed on him Hannibal Lotocki.
Caprarola, 49, who co-hosted the show The fashion cagesuffered a hemorrhagic shock which triggered cardiac arrest. He broke down during a intervention to remove kidney stones and the doctors who assisted him were unable to revive him.
He had been hospitalized since last Monday at the Argentine Institute of Diagnosis and Treatment, located in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The news of the death of Caprarola was spread on X (exTwitter) by the entertainment journalist Angel de Brito.
Caprarola had developed a great career as a fashion producer in the most prestigious Argentine magazines and was one of the favorite stylists of celebrities. Mariano’s first moment of media exposure was on the reality show Blind trust. In his career, he even had a brief stint at the summer theater sharing the bill with comedians Carna and Sergio Gonal.
The producer was the youngest of four brothers. Alejandro, the eldest, had died of cancer in 2017. Mariano was very close to his mother, who is 91 years old. His last publication on social networks was just a few days ago when, due to his 49th birthdayhad shared photos of his childhood with his parents.
The complaint against Lotocki: “He injected me with death”
Mariano Caprarola’s health problem originated time after intervention performed by Aníbal Lotocki in 2010. This is the same doctor who had operated on the actress Silvina Luna, who has been hospitalized for several months in a delicate state due to the inconvenience caused by surgery by that professional.
Caprarola was a friend of Lotocki’sbut later denounced it and assured at the time that the doctor “injected death” during a buttock surgery, since he applied methacrylatea substance supposedly prohibited in this type of intervention.
Within the framework of Silvina Luna’s hospitalization, Caprarola gave an interview on July 2, in which she recounted her experience. in communication with Show Partners, the fashion producer said: “I did something stupid, for not thinking about the consequences; but you never think that a friend is going to betray you as he betrayed me, that he is going to inject you with death”.
“I can’t name it. When I name it, it causes me such a great pain in my soul… I was guarantor of the clinic that he had in Belgrano, imagine the degree of confidence he had”, he recounted and, about Lotocki, he said: “I cannot say the word ‘murderer’, because that will be ruled by Justice when they put him in prison; but When Justice puts him behind bars, then I will go out and say that he is a murderer.. I can not today”.
When Mariano Caprarola’s health worsened, he underwent a new operation with the plastic surgeon Sergio Rossaroli to remove the methacrylate from his body. “He told me that it was like cutting a plastic bottle. That is what I had inside, ”said the late media man.
At the end of the interview, he stated that the doctor has strong protection: “If I say who is his protection, I end up dead in a ditch”. In addition, he defined Silvina Luna as a “great friend” and assured that the moment of her hospitalization was a “very sad moment.”
The latest news on the case of Silvina Luna
The model Silvina Luna presents “an improvement”although she continues to be admitted to intensive care at the Italian Hospital, this sanatorium in the city of Buenos Aires reported today through a medical report.
Her lawyer Fernando Burlando released a new official medical report this Thursday, which indicated that the model “re-entered the intensive care service of this hospital on August 10, 2023, due to a picture of encephalopathy of multi-causal origin.”
“At the moment, is breathing on its own, with kinesiological, nutritional and psychological rehabilitation. His general picture shows improvement,” the statement added.
Cassation confirmed the disqualification of Aníbal Lotocki
On the other hand, the National Chamber of Cassation confirmed the disqualification of Aníbal Lotocki from practicing medicine. In a document that went viral, Chamber III of the National Chamber of Cassation resolved: “Dismiss in limine the appeal for reversal filed by the defense of Mr. Aníbal Rubén Lotocki.”
Days ago, the surgeon had appealed the measure of Justice to temporarily disable him. “He says ‘since the cause is not firm, I am innocent.’ He wants to continue operating ”, the journalist María Belén Ludueña had pointed out in little correctabout Lotocki’s strategy to get Justice to rule in his favor.
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