Codice albumGBB-F-004492

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004492-0000

1938, 4 january, NEW YORK, USA : The actress, german spy and journalist MAGDA DE FONTANGES (Madeleine Coraboeuf, 1905 - 1960), the United States to repress their territory while, she came on the liner Normandie, it tries to land in New York. Magda was accused of shooting the french ambassador in Rome Count Charles De Chambrun (shooting in Paris, at Gare du Nord train station,the day 17 march 1937) because he broke up her friendship with italian Duce premier BENITO MUSSOLINI. For this reason was sentenced to one year suspended sentence. In USA dropped her battle against deportation the day 4 january and is shown as she sailed on the french transatlantic liner Champlain after a brief unhappy visit to United States. Illness of her father in Paris was given as the reason for droping her fight against deportation on grounds of " moral Turpitude ". In 1935 in Rome, she made an interview with the Duce, she becomes the mistress. However, a link that will be short and that Magda will field day twice in the press (Times and Confessions, 1937). Furious, Mussolini expelled immediately Magda from Italy. When the War broke out, Magda, who then is in Germany, is expelled. She tries to reach Spain without success and jailed in Bayonne. It is released by the Germans on the condition of working for the German Secret Service called " Abwehr ". In Paris 1943, became the mistress of the French Gestapo boss Henri Lafont. After the Liberation, alcoholic and drug addict, she takes refuge in his native village. She was finally arrested in March 1946 for collaboration with the enemy. According to British intelligence, it would have provided the information to the Nazis are among the most important of all Europe. She was sentenced to 15 years hard labor and twenty years of banishment, national indignity for life and confiscation of all his property. After more others problems with law Magda trying in 1955 to robber a painting by Utrillo to his lawyer and lover Maitre Floriot

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