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After her tax accountant, one Norman Egenberg, was indicted on charges of bribing IRS agents, the U.S. income tax records of Italian Diva Renata Tebaldi became public property. A deduction labeled "claque" in the 1964 and 1965 returns cast doubts on the spontaneity of some of the opera star's standing ovations. In fact, at $2,400 and $2,500 per annum, it seemed as if she had some pretty high-priced talent in her rooting section. On the witness stand at Egenberg's trial, the imperious Tebaldi denied all: "I never paid a claque in my life...
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