 The Capece Minutolos were an old Neapolitan aristocratic family, listed in the register of nobility since the 1100s that over the centuries produced 15 cardinals and 1 pope, who during the great impoverishment of Italy during World War II found themselves living in reduced circumstances with Irma's father working as a car salesman after 1945.For her part, in an interview, Capece Minutolo maintained she had fallen madly in love with him from the moment she first met him on a beach in Capri in the summer of 1952, saying she was transfixed by his "sphinx-like" eyes.One of Farouk's best friends during his Italian exile was the Mafiosi Charles "Lucky" Luciano who had been deported to Italy, and Farouk "bought" his mistress, the Swedish writer Birgitta Stenberg, to be his mistress.