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Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian: [klaˈretta peˈtattʃi]; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution .
Mar 31, 2018 · On 25 April 1945, allied troops were advancing into northern Italy, and the collapse of the Salò Republic was imminent. Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci set out for Switzerland, intending to board a plane and escape to Spain.
Apr 28, 2015 · Mussolini stormed out of the palace and fled Milan with his 33-year-old mistress, Clara Petacci, in the 1939 Alfa Romeo sports car he had bought as a gift for his girlfriend.
Mar 22, 2020 · Clara Petacci was the attractive young mistress of Benito Mussolini. Despite a 28-year age difference, the two maintained an affair until their capture and execution by Italian communist partisans. Clara Petacci died on 28 April 1945.
Clara Petacci: The Life of Mussolini’s Mistress. By Justin Brown. It may sound strange, but when Clara Petacci was shot by the firing squad on April 28, 1945, and hung up in the center of Milan along with Benito Mussolini and 14 other Fascists, she got what she had wanted.
Nov 26, 2023 · The deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, had been executed on Saturday near Como, Italy.
Apr 18, 2017 · When Claretta Petacci was a teenager, she covered the walls of her bedroom with pictures of Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He was her idol. She...
It is enlarged by an ample correspondence composed by the other members of the Petacci family, her father, Francesco Saverio, like Mussolini born in 1883 and a high society doctor, her mother, Giuseppina, only half jokingly called ‘the Duce indoors’, pious Catholic and determined social climber, brother, Marcello Cesare Augusto, trained to be a surgeon but man about town, venture ...
Nov 24, 2009 · On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
Clara " Claretta " Petacci (Italian: [klaˈretta peˈtattʃi]; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Early life.
