Gilded Lily (25 page)

Annita Watkins, Lily's mother, from her Brazilian identification papers, 1942.
(National Archives, Rio de Janeiro)

 

 

Birthday party of Alfredo Grunberg (Monteverde) in Romania, circa 1930. Alfredo is the child sitting in the front.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Alfredo Monteverde at his summer home in Aguas Lindas, Brazil, undated.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Alfredo, Regina, and Rosy in Rio de Janeiro, mid-1940s.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

One of Ponto Frio's stores in Rio de Janeiro.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Alfredo and Lily leaving for their beach house at Aguas Lindas, Brazil.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Alfredo and companion Silvia Bastos Tigre in an undated photograph.
(Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Lily and the children in a 1967 portrait. From left to right: Carlos, Adriana, Claudio, Lily, and Eduardo, Rio de Janeiro.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Alfredo and Silvia Bastos Tigre (in sunglasses) lunching with friends at the Rio Yacht Club, Rio de Janeiro, where Alfredo kept his boats.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

The last photo of Alfredo Monteverde taken in Italy in July 1969, a month before his death. Standing in the back: Rosy, Alfredo. In the front, Giuseppe Jermi, Regina Monteverde, Lily.
(Courtesy Monteverde family archives)

 

 

Police photo of the revolver used in the death of Alfredo Monteverde, showing four out of six bullets in the chamber, August 25, 1969, Rio de Janeiro.
(Police Department, Tenth District Precinct, Rio de Janeiro)

 

 

Alfredo Monteverde lying dead on his bed at his home in Rio de Janeiro.
(Police Department, Tenth District Precinct, Rio de Janeiro)

 

 

Lily and her eldest son, Claudio, the boy she called her “Jesus Christ, Esquire” at the Millfield School, Somerset, England, 1971.
(Courtesy Samuel Bendahan)