Codice albumGBB-F-005473

Image IDGBB-F-005473-0000

1938, 27 october, CHICAGO, USA : The italian Barone ARTURO BERLINGIERI (born in Roma, Italy, 6 september 1904), divorced by american heiress and aspiring movie actress MERRY FAHRNEY (1910 - 1974). Married 31 July 1937 and legally divorcied 3 February 1938 but with some legal troubles was not registered, Berlingieri descover his wife remarried in Los Angeles with Fashion Designer italo-russian nobleman Count OLEG CASSINI from the day 2 September 1938. The trouble of bigamy charge to Merry Fahrney find discussion in the Chicago Court and Fahrney pay a large amount of dollars to Berlingieri for obtain a new divorce ratification. Also Berlingieri declared the marriage was sexually " never consumed" and Fahrey declared excape in a "trunk" from the Hotel why Berlingieri beat her in more occasions. The socialite MERRY Madcap FAHRNEY married 7 times in all her life. Arturo Berlingeri in realy was not a Baron but only a Nobile dei Marchesi di Valleperrotta and Nobile di Cotrone, son of Arturo Berlingieri Sr. (1878 - 1958) and and Elisabetta Aramburo Chapman Schillinger. After this Berlingieri's American adventure Arturo Jr. disappears from society news, we dont know that he did, not informations regarding if it is back in Italy or if was "struck" by the family and disinherited for having discredited its noble name.

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