Michela De Paoli

Michela De Paoli was the third person to win Chi vuol essere milionario? in Italy when she won €1,000,000 on January 27, 2011, after Francesca Cinelli in 2001 and Davide Pavesi in 2004.

She also made history as the first non-American and European contestant to get to the final question without the use of any lifelines, and the fourth ever contestant to do this. The previous contestants to save their lifelines for question 15 were John Carpenter (the first ever Millionaire), David Goodman and Steve Perry. The only one to not win the top prize was Perry.