amati had been taken out of a car she was sitting in near her parents' villa and was taken away in a van. her captors took her into a house located near to her parents' home but was moved when police came searching for amati. she was kept in a wooden cage for 75 days and was physically and mentally abused but nieto comforted her. amati was released on an 800 million-lira ($933,000 in 1978) ransom on 27 april using box office receipts for the film "" and her mother sold some of her jewellery and managed to get into her servants' life savings to pay the ransom. magistrates ordered that all of the assets belonging to the amati family would be frozen to prevent payment.