This was a historical episode because during the last phase of the game show
Mike Bongiorno has noticed that the competitor
Maura Livoli was handling something in the cabin, and so he asked his assistant
Sabrina Gandolfi to go and check what she was doing. It was discovered that she was holding a piece of paper with notes, which could refer the questions (for a value of 120 million lire) that she would have to answer. At that point Bongiorno asked the authors what to do, defining such a behavior a fraud, and
Ludovico Peregrini replied that
Gianfranco Carosi, defending champion, was reconfirmed, so Bongiorno told Livoli she was disqualified and that such a thing had never happened in the history of the quiz. Then, during the confirmation of Carosi, Livoli fainted, but Bongiorno suspected it was a fake. She then denounced to the magistracy Bongiorno and
Gianfranco D'Angelo for defamation and insult, but she lost the lawsuit.
—Lorenz-pictures