Wilma Montesi (3 February 1932 - 9 April 1953) was an Italian woman whose body was discovered near Rome. The finding of her lifeless body on a public beach near at Torvajanica, on Rome's littoral, led to prolonged investigations involving sensational allegations of drug and sex orgies in Roman society. Jazz pianist and diplomat's son Piero Piccioni travels in a gondola on a canal enroute for the Palace of Justice , Venice , to attend the "trial of the century" where it is alleged that he killed Wilma Montesi during a drug party . 23rd January 1957