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...from the parlor to the patio, swirled around the skating rink, tennis courts and swimming pool. The two Diligenti boys in tuxedos and the three girls in white tulle gracefully acknowledged congratulations on their 15th birthday, the coming-out age in Argentina. Beamed papa Diligenti to Family Dr. Carlos Montagna: "We did a damned good...
...accusation that Foreign Minister Piccioni's son Piero, a 35-year-old jazz pianist, had abandoned Wilma Montesi to the waves while she was stupefied by drugs. The fact that the police had at first declared her death accidental was attributed to pressure brought to bear by Ugo Montagna, a bogus Sicilian marquis of inexplicable wealth and impressive contacts among the upper reaches of the Christian Democratic Party...
...Black Swan. The principal source of these accusations was Montagna's discarded mistress, Milanese Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, known to Italy's avid scandal readers as "the black swan." In September 1954, largely on the strength of Anna Maria's circumstantial tale of sex orgies, dope trafficking and corruption in high places, Piero Piccioni was formally charged with "culpable homicide." Arrested along with him were Montagna and the ex-chief of the Rome police...
...government had been trying to cover up, actually produced a great psychological break for the Scelba regime. Persons of wealth and high position just are not touched in Italy by the law-or so many Italians had come to believe. But this time, neither the wealth of Ugo Montagna nor the high connections of Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni had prevented indictment and arrest...
Like the dashing boulevardier he pretended to be, Ugo Montagna went to prison in style, reporting at the jail gate without benefit of police escort, but with a posse of lawyers at his side, after learning on a round of the nightclubs that a warrant had been issued for him. His first request was for a suit of prison clothes. "This gabardine I am wearing is newly cleaned and pressed," he explained, "and I don't want to get it dirty. I want to leave here like a gentleman.'' One of Montagna's first visitors...