A building in via Petrarca, in the center of Rome, rented for years to the Interior Ministry, government bonds and a lot of money. A fortune of 25 million euros that of Amalia Maria Musso, who died at 91 in 2019 after an existence divided between the love for her footballer husband Sergio Piacentiniwho played for the great Torino from ’39 to ’46, and fashion. A treasure that four carers and a lawyer pounced on in the last months of the lady’s life, suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
The wit of the victim
To tell this story, with a fortune one and a half times greater than that of Gina Lollobrigida at stake, is the trial, with two protagonists. One is the lawyer Saverio Fatone, accused with his four accomplices of circumvention of incompetence for having attempted to convince Musso to turn over her assets to a foundation named after her husband, which the lawyer would have created and presided over. Objective shattered because the old woman objected: «What are we kidding! – You will say to your support administrator – So you take all my money… I intend to leave my assets to the poor..».
The caregiver’s complaint
The other characterwith a good heart but with a liver ruined by whiskey and cognac, is the fifth caregiver in the case, Sampath Herath52 years old, born in Sri Lanka: He’s the one who ruins the lawyer’s plans. It is February 26, 2019, three days after Musso’s death, when Fatone goes to the Gemelli polyclinic, where the caregiver is hospitalized, and asks him for delegation to collect the 500 thousand euro life insurance policy stipulated in his favor by the elderly woman. Herath is in no condition to understand and signs a deed that allows the lawyer to keep 100 thousand euros for himself. But when, lucid again, he leaves the hospital, he reports the lawyer for circumvention of incompetent person (his and the lady’s).
Life with full-back Piacentini
Thus began the investigation which, according to prosecutor Daniela Cento, reveals the intrigues of Fatone and the other four carers who over time have taken care of this 91-year-old born in Morbello, Piedmont, who arrived in Rome at the age of twenty following her husband Sergio Piacentini, left back of Torino with whom she won two championships. Musso had business instincts, had purchased the building in via Petrarca by renting it to the Ministry of the Interior. But when her husband died in 1990, she opted to sell the boutique, cutting all ties with her external life: under the banner of confidentiality his last years.
