biography
pronunciation:
[montayzee]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1932–53)
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| biography:
| Fashion model, the daughter of a Roman carpenter. The finding of her body on the beach near Ostia in April 1953 led to prolonged investigations involving sensational allegations of drug and sex orgies in Roman society. After four years of debate, scandal, arrests, re-arrests and libel suits, the Venice trial in 1957 of the son of a former Italian foreign minister, a self-styled marquis, and a former Rome police chief for complicity in her death, ended in their acquittal after many conflicts of evidence. The trial left the mystery unsolved, but exposed corruption in high public places and helped to bring about the downfall of the government in 1955. |
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