Naomi Campbell 'to get Desdemona's House'
Russian boyfriend 'set to buy palazzo on Grand Canal'
07 September, 15:23
(ANSA) - Moscow, September 7 - Naomi Campbell's Russian oligarch boyfriend Vladislav Voronin is set to buy her a historic palazzo in Venice linked to tragic Shakespearian heroine Desdemona, a Russian daily reported Tuesday.
The tabloid Trud claimed the couple met Monday with the owner of the Palazzo Contarini-Fasan, which overlooks the Grand Canal.
It said a contract to buy the medieval building was being drawn up.
Palazzo Contarini-Fasan was built in 1475 in the so-called 'flowery Gothic' style.
Legends link it with a noblewoman killed by her jealous husband in the story that inspired Shakespeare's Othello, and it is popularly known as Desdemona's House. No historical evidence has been found to support the claim that an aristocrat of that name lived there.
Campbell and Voronin are in Venice for the annual film festival.
