Augusto Odone said his son's ashes would be taken to New York and placed with those of his wife Michaela, who died in 2000.

BBC: Lorenzo's Oil boy is dead at 30

Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte portray an extraordinary (real-life) couple named Michaela and Augusto Odone, whose five-year-old son, Lorenzo, is found to have an extremely rare, ruthlessly degenerative, incurable disease.

NEWYORKER: Lorenzo??s Oil

Speakers at the conference (which then moved to a nearby hotel) included a retired philosophy professor, a representative of the Catholic archdiocese of Westminster, the chairman of the Tory Party's oldest pressure group, the Bow Group, Phillip Blond (another Tory adviser) and Cristina Odone, a journalist married to an editor at this newspaper.

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