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Piero Piccioni, the son of Premier Mario Scelba's ex-Foreign Minister, was locked up in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail on charges of manslaughter. Ugo Montagna, the rich and influential bogus marquis, was clapped into a nearby cell. Rome's ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito was also arrested but allowed to stay at home, pending trial, because...
...death of Wilma Montesi, the obscure daughter of a Roman carpenter. The charge laid against Piccioni was that, believing Wilma Montesi dead (presumably as a result of a drug orgy), he had left her body on a beach 13 miles outside Rome. There she had drowned in the tide. Montagna, a man of large but questioned means, and Polito were charged with aiding and abetting the manslaughter...
...Rome (TIME, Feb. 15). At first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also involved was young (32) Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni, son of the Foreign Minister...
...pages of evidence to the government prosecutor. Nothing happened. After three days' waiting, Magistrate Sepe took an unusual step to prod higher authorities to action: he pointed his finger at four prominent figures by the simple expedient of canceling their passports. The four: Pianist Piero Piccioni, Ugo Montagna, ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito and, to the surprise of almost everyone, Prince Maurice of Hesse, 28-year-old grandson of Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel. The magistrate's action came at an awkward time, with the Scelba government already off balance by the French defeat...
...letter appeared, both Montagna and Piccioni were on call to testify at the next session. But before they could take the stand, prosecution and defense agreed that the "serious accusation" of the letter "had brought an entirely new element to the trial." The judge concurred and this week ordered the trial of Editor Muto suspended indefinitely. Instead, he recommended, there should be a new and wider investigation of the whole shocking affair...