From Aspiring Model To Murderer To Folk Hero

The heartening story of Terry Broome

When Giorgio Rotti woke up on June 26, 1984, his fiancee Terry Broome confessed him she had killed a man. It happened early in the morning, and she used his gun to do it. Now he had to help her escape from Italy.

Terry and Giorgio left as soon as possible from the residence in Milan where he stayed and headed to Linate airport. From there, they took the first flight to Switzerland and settled in a small guesthouse in Zurich.

But Terry’s escape wouldn’t last long: she was tracked down and arrested the next day. The police immediately brought her back to Italy, where she would face one of the most sensational trials in the late 20th century’s Italian history.

Terry Broome had arrived in Italy very recently. Native to South Carolina, she had a tough childhood, which took her to New York on the run from a past on the street and from her brief marriage to a drug addict at 18.

Her sister Donna worked in Italy as a model and was having some success. Now in her mid twenties, Terry decided to join her, hoping that Milan would offer her the turning point that she needed for her life.

Upon arriving in Milan, she immediately began to frequent very exclusive environments. It was the city of well-being and abundance in Italy in the 1980s: the “Milan to drink”, so-called after a popular advertising slogan. It was a natural habitat for a certain elite of wealthy industrialists, their families, and entourages. They considered themselves the center of the country’s social life but were generally disliked by the working class.

Terry got absorbed by this world of parties in exclusive clubs, where champagne and cocaine flowed and where people seemed convinced they could own everything and everyone. Those who went into that environment saw girls like Terry as disposable commodities. After all, everything in their world had a price. You just needed to pay.

Francesco D’Alessio was a forty-year-old playboy, the son of a rich horse breeder. He and Terry met in the villa of a mutual friend, Carlo Cabassi. At the time…

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