The
football star, who recently made a switch to Sampdoria in Italy,? is
said to have splashed out a whopping sum of £18.5m on the historic
property in Portofino, near Genoa in northern Italy.According to
Corriere Dello Sport, the newly acquired mansion has a total number of
40 rooms and a swimming pool and is surrounded by 30,000 square metres
of rolling parkland along the Tyrrhenian coast near the fishing village
of Portofino. Experts say it needs up to €3m of renovation work to
restore it to its former glory. Cameroon star Eto’o, 33, who is
currently living in a hotel, is said to want to “make a palace of his
own there”.The
£18.5million Italian mansion was said to have been bought despite
locals warning him it is haunted by the curse of the Tutankhamun.cut...
The
Cameroonian footballer 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, have not deterred the former Chelsea and Everton man to buy
Villa Altachiara. As to the property itself, the mansion has 40 rooms
and 30,000 square-metres of land.
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