Amazon Orders Italian Heist Series ‘Everybody Loves Diamonds’
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAmazon has announced a new Italian original series titled “Everybody Loves Diamonds” during Rome’s MIA market. The heist series with comedic overtones is inspired by the 2003 “Heist of Antwerp,” dubbed by international media as “the biggest diamond theft in the world.”The new Amazon show being produced by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, which is a Fremantle unit, follows a group of thieves led by Sicilian mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo, who in 2003 managed to circumvent the advanced security system of the Antwerp Diamond Center and steal precious stones worth more than $100 million.Nicole Morganti, head of Amazon Originals in Italy, and Davide Nardini, head of scripted