Born in Venice, Italy, circa 1965, as Lorenzo Robèrt di Valentina Evangelista de Venezia, Lorenz was brought to the United States as an infant and raised near Chicago. In his late teens and early 20s, he pursued a career as an opera singer under the stage name Lorenzo Valentino, a variation of his birth name, but gave it up for a career in science.

Later in life, Lorenz had a strong desire to focus on his passions of writing and music, but he felt he was too old to start a new career in his late 40s. He was inspired by a biography about Ray Kroc, who founded the McDonald's Corporation at age 52, and decided he wasn't too old to change careers. Shortly after his 50th birthday, Lorenz met filmmaker Robert Rippberger, who was working on a film near Lorenz's home in Illinois. Lorenz then moved to the Los Angeles area and joined Rippberger's production team for "The Inventor," an animated film about Leonardo da Vinci. He has since formed his own production company and is working on a number of movies and television shows.

(2020) Lorenz is single and resides in Pacific Palisades, California, raising his three school-age children as a single parent. He is working on a number of television and motion picture productions and writing his next book, The Broken-Hearted Survivor.