An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
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The Kidnapping of a Baroness
The family initially, they had different reactions to the kidnapping and the ransom demand at the beginning. The wife, Sylvana, who was Italian, she had no clue about his business affairs. She thought it would take him down a peg because he was arrogant and just a bit too haughty for her taste. He never licked the gambling habit, and it ruined him. All the money he got from selling his stock basically just kind of dwindled through his gambling. That he was just completely immersed in debt. At the end he was virtually penniless. His sister Diane stuck by him to the end. I mean, call it a Greek tragedy,. But it's the fall of a
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