He was deposed by the Grand Council of Fascism, arrested by the Italian king, and had just escaped imprisonment with the help of German special forces. Mussolini was headed north with his mistress, ...

“Read this letter as if it were my love testament,” wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, “because it is the last one that you will get … If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free ...

If you think of Mussolini's mistress Clara "Claretta" Petacci at all, the mental image is likely grotesque; some version of the famous photographs of her hanging upside down from a girder in an ...

‘Ah! The Germans are lucky. They always find themselves facing morons or cowards,’ Benito Mussolini told Clara Petacci, his young mistress, in one of their many pillow talks. David Kertzer’s The Pope ...

ROME — Dozens of people raised their arms in the fascist salute and shouted a fascist chant during ceremonies Sunday to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution ...

World War II dictator Benito Mussolini was reported by his biographer Nicholas Farrerl as a man that had many intimate encounters with female supporters, but one of the women in his life to stand with ...

His posthumous career began poorly enough. The corpse of Benito Mussolini hung heels-up alongside that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, like a pig outside a butcher shop. But last week, with the 20th ...

Cars previously owned by celebrities are easier to sell, but is this also true for cars that belonged to infamous dictators? Well, this superb 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Berlinetta by Touring was not ...

ROME (AP) — Dozens of people raised their arms in the fascist salute and shouted a fascist chant during ceremonies Sunday to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his ...