Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Ponti got his answer. The Mexican marriage was no legal fiction, said a Rome civil court. It had in fact been annulled, but by contracting it in the first place, Ponti was still guilty of bigamy, though the court did not charge him with the crime. Almost as if he had expected the ruling, the producer had already started down another escape route: he has become a French citizen on the theory that the move will allow him to divorce his wife under French law and remarry Sophia...
...some Italians (such as ex-soldiers) can never renounce their citizenship. If Italian courts fail to agree that Ponti has become a 100% Frenchman, marriage to Sophia may bring up the bigamy charge once more. Moreover, if he divorces his first wife in France, she will still be his legal wife in Italy...
...divorce, and the Emperor Justinian permitted it in return for vows of future chastity from each partner, but Mussolini's 1929 Concordat with the Vatican banished divorce entirely. The church courts do permit annulments-at the rate of about 70 a year. Another 12,000 couples win legal separations each year, but the separated remain bound in marriage. Not surprisingly, 2,500,000 Italians have chosen concubinage. About 10% of the entire population is now technically living...
...Duce himself followed the pattern when he took up with the beautiful Clara Petacci in place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...
Married. Michael Chaplin, 18, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill, himself a Beatle-haired London drama student; and Patricia Johns, 25, London bit-part actress; in a civil ceremony; in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the legal age is 16, thus getting around Daddy's refusal to give permission. Mom did not seem to mind; she was only 18 when she married Charlie...