Film claretta petacci biography
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Film claretta petacci biography
Clara Petacci
Mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (–)
Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian:[klaˈrettapeˈtattʃi]; 28 February – 28 April ) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution.
Early life
Daughter of Giuseppina Persichetti (–) and the physician Francesco Saverio Petacci (–), Clara Petacci was born into a privileged and religious family in Rome in [1][2] Her father, a physician of the Holy Apostolic Palaces,[3] became a supporter of fascism.
A child when Mussolini rose to power in the s, Clara Petacci idolised him from an early age. After Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate the dictator in April , the year-old Petacci wrote to him commenting "O, Duce, why was I not with you? Could I not have strangled that murderous woman?"[4]
Relationship with Mussolini
Petacci had a long-standing relationship with Mussolini w