Italian authorities have seized assets worth about €20 million in Tuscany that investigators say were purchased with money embezzled from actor Ursula Andress, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
The assets include property, vineyards, and olive groves in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, near Florence, as well as artworks and other holdings, AFP reported, citing a statement from Italy’s financial crimes police.
Andress, 90, filed a complaint in her native Switzerland alleging a “progressive and significant depletion of her assets” by people responsible for managing her finances, AFP reported. Prosecutors in the Swiss canton of Vaud determined that about 18 million Swiss francs were siphoned off through a series of opaque transactions in what police described as a “systematic misappropriation of financial resources.”
Andress rose to international fame in the 1962 James Bond film “Dr. No,” the first of the franchise.
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