Italy seizes millions in assets allegedly stolen from Bond co-star Ursula Andress
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- Summary
- Italian authorities seized 20 million euros in assets linked to financial fraud against Ursula Andress, a former Bond girl. The investigation followed her report of being defrauded by a deceased financial adviser, with assets traced to real estate and artworks in Tuscany.
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“Italy seizes millions in assets allegedly stolen from Bond co-star Ursula Andress”
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“Italian authorities have impounded 20 million euros worth of property, artworks and financial assets in and around Florence”
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“The seizures were the result of an investigation launched after Andress reported to Swiss authorities that she had been swindled out of assets by financial advisers”
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“The 90-year-old former Bond girl told Swiss newspaper Blick in January that she had been defrauded out of 18 million Swiss francs, approximately 20 million euros, by her long-time financial adviser over an eight-year period. The newspaper said the adviser had died in the meantime”
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— No evidence found in archive to confirm Andress's financial fraud claims
“The stolen funds were invested in foreign companies, used to buy assets and then channeled through transactions designed to conceal their source”
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“They were traced to the purchase of 11 real estate properties, 14 plots of land cultivated as vineyards and olive groves, along with artworks and financial assets in Florence and the neighboring Tuscan countryside”
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“Authorities did not say if any arrests were made”
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“Swiss-born Andress is best known as the first Bond girl, Honey Ryder, in 1962’s “Dr. No,” which featured her memorable entrance emerging from the sea in a white bikini”
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“She went on to work with Elvis Presley in “Fun in Acapulco” and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in “Four for Texas””
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“She later transitioned to a European cinema and television career, before retiring to in the early 2000s”
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