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Actor Buys A Crumbling Home For 1 Euro And It Turns Into A 'Big Italian Adventure'

The house Lorraine Bracco bought needed a lot of work. "Nobody in their right mind would have bought this," she says. She chronicles the renovation in her HGTV show My Big Italian Adventure.
Lorraine Bracco purchased an abandoned home in Sambuca for a single euro. She chronicles her renovation efforts in <em>My Big Italian Adventure</em> on HGTV.

An American actor buys a 200-year-old Italian home for one euro. What could go wrong? Well, a lot, as it turns out.

Lorraine Bracco is best known for her roles in The Sopranos and Goodfellas. In her new HGTV show, My Big Italian Adventure, Bracco renovates — really ­renovates — the abandoned house she bought in Sicily.

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