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Mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1912–1945)

Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian:[klaˈrettapeˈtattʃi]; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution.

Early life

Daughter of Giuseppina Persichetti (1888–1962) and the physician Francesco Saverio Petacci (1883–1970), Clara Petacci was born into a privileged and religious family in Rome in 1912.^[1][2] Her father, a physician of the Holy Apostolic Palaces,^[3] became a supporter of fascism.

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A child when Mussolini rose to power in the 1920s, Clara Petacci idolised him from an early age. After Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate the dictator in April 1926, the 14-year-old Petacci wrote to him commenting "O, Duce, why was I not with you? ...

Could I not have strangled that murderous woman?"^[4]

Relationship with Mussolini

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