near Ostia. Prolonged investigations resulted, involving allegations of drug and sex orgies in Roman society. Among the accused – all of whom were acquitted, leaving the case unsolved – was Valli's lover, jazz musician Piero Piccioni (son of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs). Death Valli's death at her home on 22 April 2006 was announced by the office of the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni. The critic David Shipman wrote in his book The Great Movie Stars: The International Years, that on the basis of her best-known films before 1950, she might seem to be "one of Hollywood's least successful continental imports", but a viewer of "any two or three of the films she has made since then ... will probably regard her as one of the half-dozen best actresses in the world". The French critic Frédéric Mitterrand wrote: "[She] was the only actress in Europe to equal Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo". Filmography Film Television I Figli di Medea (1959) as Medea / Alida Valli Il caso Mauritius (1961) Combat! as Marie (Episode: "Doughboy", 1963) Desencuentro (series, 1964) Rome Will Never Leave You, three episodes of Dr. Kildare (1964) as Luisa Brabante Il consigliere imperiale (1974) Les grandes conjurations: Le tumulte d'Amboise (1978) L'altro Simenon (series, 1979) L'eredità della priora (serial, 1980) as Priora Dramma d'amore (serial, 1983) Piccolo mondo antico (serial, 1989) as La marchesa Maironi Una vita in gioco 2 (serial, 1992) Delitti privati (1992) as Matilde Pierboni Theatre La casa dei Rosmer (1956) Henrik Ibsen (aka Rosmersholm) L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1956), Luigi Pirandello Gli innocenti (1956), William Archibald Enrico IV (1958), Luigi Pirandello Il sole e la luna (1965), Guglielmo Biraghi Epitaffo per George Dillon (1966), John Osborne and Anthony Creighton (Epitaph for George Dillon) Uno sguardo dal ponte (1967), Arthur Miller (A View from the Bridge) La bambolona (1968), Raf Vallone Il dio Kurt (1969), Alberto Moravia I parenti terribili (1969), Jean Cocteau (Les parents terribles) LSD-Lei, scusi, divorzierebbe? (1970), Carlo Maria Pensa Uno sporco egoista (1971), Francois Dorin Lulu (Lo spirito della terra – Il vaso di Pandora) (1972), Frank Wedekind (Lulu [Erdgeist-Die Büchse der Pandora]) Le massacre à Paris (1972), Christopher Marlowe (The Massacre at Paris) Il Gabbiano (1973), Anton Cechov L'uomo che incontrò de stesso (1981), Luigi Antonelli La Venexiana (1981), Anonimo del Cinquecento La fiaccola sotto il moggio (1981), Gabriele d'Annunzio Ekaterina Ivanovna (1983), Leonid Andreev Il