Eto'o's Cursed Mansion
Former
Barcelona forward Samuel Eto’o has splashed out a serious amount of money to buy
an Italian villa. According to Corriere Dello Sport, the £18.5 million Italian
mansion was reportedly bought by Eto’o despite warnings by locals that the
house is haunted by the curse of the “Tutankhamun.”The ex-Cameroonian international
has purchased the historic property in Portofino, near Genoa in northern Italy.
The property, called “Villa Altachiara,”
was previously owned by Lord Carnarvon, who was known to be jinxed with the “Curse
of the Pharaoh.”
Lord
Carnarvon was working with famous English archaeologist Howard Carter when they
discovered the tomb of ancient Egyptian ruler Tutankhamun, opening the ‘cursed’
burial plot on February 16 1923.
Famously,
of the 58 people present when Tutankhamun’s long-lost tomb was opened, eight
died within a dozen years. Moreover, Lord Carnarvon bizarrely died after he got
an infection after cutting a mosquito bite on his face while shaving.
In
addition, Lord Carnarvon’s nephew died in Villa Altachiara by falling down the
stairs, while more recently, in 2001, former Gucci model and heiress Countess
Francesca
Agusta vanished from the cliff-top property.
Those
scary stories, however, didn’t stop the former Chelsea man from buying Villa Altachiara.
The mansion has 40 rooms and 30,000 square-metres of land.
See pictures of Samuel Eto’o’s latest purchase in
Italy below:
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