CLARETTA PETACCI : MISTRESS OF BENITO MUSSOLINI MISTRESS OF THE MONTH

UPDATE

DAILY MAIL - TOMB OF MUSSOLINI'S EXECUTED MISTRESS FACES DEMOTION by Patrick Leon  August 24th 2016


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The crumbling tomb of Benito Mussolini's murdered mistress may be demolished by Roman authorities after her relatives failed to pay bills for its upkeep, it has been reported.

Clara Petacci, 33, who was executed by partisans near Lake Como alongside the former Italian leader, 61, in 1945, was buried in a tomb at the Verano cemetery in Rome.

But now city officials in Rome are reportedly concerned about what to do with Petacci's remains after the collapsing tomb was cordoned off for safety... About 1000 people visit the tomb each year compared to 100,000 people who visit Mussolini's tomb in his birthplace of Predappio, according to The Times.

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It's said that Benito Mussolini, the dictator, had many mistresses. At the time of his death, his mistress was Clara Petacci, who was raised in an upper class Roman home where he father was the personal doctor to the Pope. Mussolini was much older than she - twenty eight years - and together they died on April 28, 1945 when she was 32.

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R.J.B. Bosworth says Claretta assured Mussolini he was as great as Napoleon. Bosworth is the author of a book called "Claretta: Mussolini's Last Lover" in which he extensively used her diaries and family correspondences to learn how it was that it was she who came to be hung along with him.