Italy’s financial police ‌have seized assets worth about €20 million in an ‌investigation into financial fraud allegedly targeting Swiss actor Ursula Andress. Property, artworks and financial assets in and around Florence were allegedly purchased with money stolen from the original Bond girl by financial advisers. 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 neighbouring Tuscan countryside. Andress told Swiss newspaper Blick in January that she had been defrauded out of 18 million Swiss francs by her long-time financial adviser over an eight-year period. The investigations in Italy and Switzerland identified “significant connections” between some of these transactions and Italy, particularly the ‌Florence area, ⁠prompting Italian authorities to intervene, the statement added.

Source: The Irish Times March 27, 2026 03:40 UTC