A lonely Italian millionaire who befriended the mother superior from her local convent believed she had found a companion and confidante in her dying days.
Now police are investigating the possibility that the nun was more interested in her money and forged her will to help herself after she died.
Sr Angela Gramegna is being investigated by police on suspicion of fraudulently pocketing €1.5m and getting the keys to an apartment in an upmarket Rome neighbourhood.
Investigators seized the apartment and placed Sr Gramegna under investigation after calligraphy experts decided she wrote and signed the will in which her apparent benefactor, Francesca Di Cesare, left everything she owned to the convent.
The porter at Ms Di Cesare’s apartment building grew suspicious when a contingent of nuns from the convent began arriving to empty her flat of objects, documents and clothes just before she died.
Ms Di Cesare lived alone and she had no living relatives.
– (Guardian Service)