Widowed since the 2007 death of her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, Loren made a comeback on Italian television in 2010 in a movie about her life in which she played her own mother. In 2014 upon turning 80, she published her memoir, “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. Widowed since the 2007 death of her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, Loren made a comeback on Italian television in 2010 in a movie about her life in which she played her own mother. In 2014 upon turning 80, she published her memoir, “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”.