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A fairly reliable report places Emmy Buckingham Parker in Venice, Italy, only five days after her husband's death. Emmy apparently registered in the hotel Luna under the name of Smith. She is thought to have stayed at the hotel with an unidentified man. Von Armstadt and his wife had often visited Venice, but had always stayed at the Hotel Firenze, where they had had their private suite overlooking the Canal Grande. Emmy was recognized by a Guiseppe Lugosi, a bell boy at the hotel Luna, who had been fired from the Firenze a year earlier for indiscretions and lewd conduct. He told reporters he had received a handsome tip after taking a rich assortment of seasonal soft fruits up to the suite where Emmy allegedly stayed. Fifty years later, in her scandalous autobiography I Lived, I Loved, Mathilda Quincy Bruckheimer remembered she ran into Emmy Buckingham Parker in the lobby of the hotel Luna. |
| "We did not speak. She kept to herself and I was there with that wonderful world famous star of the silver screen, whose work was celebrated at the hotel that week. You could certainly call me a tramp that night! I kept silent all these years because I respected her privacy as she respected mine. It was that kind of time: we lived, we loved, and poor old Bruckheimer was never hurt and never the wiser." |
