Nobel Prize winner calls in police over missing charity cash

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Nobel Prize winner calls in police over missing charity cash
By Peter Popham in Rome
16 September 2004

Snip from The Independent

When Dario Fo, the anarchist, comedian and playwright, won the Nobel Prize in 1997, he set up a charity using the €800,000 (£550,000) to help the handicapped. Since then it has become one of Italy's most famous funds, with other acclaimed artists and celebrities chipping in.

Now, Fo is alleging that the manager of the initial project helped himself to the cash.

In 1997, Fo, then aged 71, amazed Italy's literary and political world - delighting those on the left, enraging the rest - when he won the Nobel Prize for literature.

The following year, he and his wife and artistic partner, Franca Rame, set up a charity, The Nobel for the Disabled, to buy vans and set up other projects to benefit the disabled. Sales of lithographs by Fo, and contributions from other artists, swelled the fund. Photographs on the couple's websites show the charity's work in full swing.
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Maybe Jeffrey Archer stole it and gave it to Mark Thatcher for a coup in Equi Guinea.....