Background
She was born in Naples, Italy, reportedly a daughter of Augusto Capece Minutolo.
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Irma Minutolo Edit Profile
Irma Capece Minutolo is an Italian former opera singer who was one of the last companions of King Farouk I of Egypt.
Career
In recent years, she claims she was the king"s last wife, and now uses the name Irma Capece Minutolo Farouk. In addition to her opera career, Capece Minutolo appeared in several motion pictures:
Napoletani a Milano (1953)
Siamo Ricchi e Poveri (1954)
Young Toscanini (1988, role: Signora Martelli), a Franco Zeffirelli film starring Elizabeth Taylor and C. Thomas Howell
Mutande Pazze (1992)
Boom (1992)
Fantozzi 2000: Louisiana Clonazione (1999, role: Contessa Serbelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare)
Capece Minutolo also has stated that she and Farouk had been married, at the time of his death in 1965, for a total of eight years, which would mean that the purported ceremony took place in 1957. She further has stated that she was 24 when Farouk died, in 1965, which would place her birth year as 1941.
In February 1954, however, the same month that King Farouk and Queen Narriman divorced, Time referred to the singer as the King"s "latest collector"s item" and gave her age as 18, which would place her birth in 1935, given her birthday (6 August).
Capece Minutolo"s claim of having married the exiled Egyptian monarch has not been substantiated.
Views
Quotations: "his current traveling companion, a voluptuous Neapolitan".
