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...pretty Wilma Montesi, 21, was found on the seashore sands of Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much...
...public prosecutor promptly haled Muto into court under an old Fascist law against spreading "false and adulterated news to perturb the public order." Challenged to prove his story, Muto accepted, declared that the ringleader was the Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, one of Rome society's brightest luminaries. The hunting lodge was run by the St. Hubert Club, whose membership list included the Pope's personal physician, high Vatican lay officials, and Piero Piccioni, jazz-pianist son of Scelba's Foreign Minister. Wilma was allegedly seen in a car like young Piccioni's black Alfa...
Enter La Caglio. One of the girls was pretty, well-groomed Anna Maria Moneta Caglio. She took the stand to back up Muto's charges, but her words painted a picture of favoritism and official corruption with ramifications reaching far beyond the death of Wilma Montesi...
Symbol of Sickness. Almost forgotten were Editor Muto and Wilma Montesi. The picture that all fixed on with fascinated horror was of Ugo Montagna and his connections, a symbol of all that was sick about postwar Italy...
...Scandal. Montagna promptly instituted slander proceedings against Editor Muto, who also awaits trial under a 1931 Fascist law for "having published false and adulterated news." The press of all parties, and in particular the Communist L'Unità, made the most of the scandal. It had everything: decadent aristocracy, orgies, playgirls, dope, and even a mystery-the still unsolved story of what happened to poor Wilma Montesi...