Word: ugo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...that the 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...
...southwest of 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...