What WAS behind the snowy death of the Vogue model who married Evelyn de Rothschild? By RICHARD KAY EDITOR AT LARGE Published: 01:38, 11 November 2024 | Updated: 01:43, 11 November 2024 e-mail View comments At first, it looked like a simple but tragic accident. Fourteen months after they vanished in a snowstorm in the mountains of central Italy , the remains of Briton Jeannette May and her companion Gabriella Guerin were found in a forest ravine by a man who was hunting wild boar. But far from solving the mystery, the grisly discovery of their decomposed bodies served only to fuel more questions about a case which had gripped the public imagination from the moment they disappeared.
As time passed, speculation veered from one sensational theory to another. The women had been victims of a kidnap and ransom. They were linked to an international ring of jewel thieves.
The Vatican was involved, so too the Mafia. No wonder the suspicion that they had died of anything as straightforward as exposure after getting lost in bad weather was so quickly dismissed. What drove this fascination was not just the manifest incompetence of the local police, but also the glamour and back story of the striking Mrs May.
Former model Jeanette May, who was found dead in 1982 in Italy, had previously been married to the international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild The body of Jeanette May, above, and that of her companion Gabriella Guerin were found by a man out hunting for birds A former model, she h.
