Lake Como
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 86 of 100.
Villa Aurelia, on the shores of Lake Como, 11:35 pm. Sandro Viale, photographer at the wedding of actress Ludovica Ferrante and tenor Matteo Rinaldi, was found dead in the shallow water by the villa's pier.
He hit his head on the mooring post and fell into the lake, between 11:10 pm and 11:30 pm. It looked like an accident: wet boards, a photographer always in a hurry. But his camera was open and the memory card was gone.
From 11:00 pm to 11:30 pm the groom was singing for two hundred guests in the ballroom. Security surrounded the villa to keep out paparazzi, and no boat left the pier.
Three people from the party were away from the ballroom during that half hour. One of them was not where they claim.
The villa's library, doors closed, the wedding music muffled in the distance.
Suspects
Ludovica FerranteThe bride, actress, 31
Ottavia BelliniWedding planner, 50
Tancredi AldobrandiBest man and the groom's manager, 46
The real case
The wedding photos of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
New York and London, 2000 to 2007
This case is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events in the game do not portray real people. The account below is a factual summary, based on public sources, of the case that served as inspiration.
In November 2000, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones married at the Plaza Hotel in New York and sold exclusive rights to the photos to OK! magazine for one million pounds. A photographer slipped into the reception without permission, and the rival magazine Hello! published the images first.
The couple and OK! sued Hello!; the dispute reached the House of Lords, which in 2007 upheld OK!'s right to exclusivity and awarded the magazine damages. The case became a landmark on privacy and confidential information in British law.
The game borrows the photos of a celebrity wedding sold in secret to a rival magazine. The photographer's death, the characters and the outcome are fiction.
Sources
Case glossary
Words from this case you might not know.
- mooring post
- A sturdy post on a pier to which boats are tied.