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...young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion and left to drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Montesi Affair | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Editor Talks. Seven months later, Attualita, a sensational new Italian picture magazine, hit the stands with Wilma's face on the cover under a broad band which said: "The Truth Behind the Death of Wilma Montesi." She had not drowned, said Attualita; she had died of overindulgence in opium taken at one of Roman society's most exclusive hunting clubs. Last week Attualita's editor, mustached, 24-year-old Silvano Muto, was haled into court and ordered to explain his charges. Threatened with a jail sentence unless he talked, Muto let go with an explosion of names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Did Wilma Die? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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