Massimo Palombella (

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, 25 December 1967) is an Italian

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priest and he was director of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina, succeeding Giuseppe Liberto, and before him Domenico Bartolucci and

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and preceding Marcos Pavan. Having run the choir for eight years, in late 2024 he was ordered to pay back €127,000 of embezzled funds he stole from the choir’s global tours. He was also sentenced for this crime to three years in prison.

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