European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine the Seamer Side Milan s do ice Vita by Stephen r. Wilson associated Pressy Oung aspiring american models come to Italy s fashion capital with Hopes of gracing Magazine covers and swaying Down runways in the latest designer collections the Prica of failure May be a slide into the Seamer Side of Milan s Dales Vita. Maybe 0 percent really succeed says Laurie Reeves a successful photo and runway Model from Wilmington. Del the other 90 percent All away. You find some hardly hanging on almost starving with boy lends paying Lor them or earning just enough Lor essentials " most of those who succeed go on to Paris 0the Ull Imale goal new York. The dangers Are embodied in Terry Broome a Brunette from South Carolina who chose the fast Lane to fashion Fame and fell into a spin of drugs alcohol and easy sen she s paying Loril now in jail serving a 14-year Tarm Lor shooting a Pes Lefing italian Playboy to death during a cocaine Binge Broome is an exception bul her Case shed Light on the vulgar version or Milark Bone the moneyed High life of fashion horses gambling and parties Hal the italian press dubbed Milano male Melanoma be Means the Nouveau Che robber Baron financiers gangsters delinquents says Oresile Bel Bono a journalist and author who called Broome s three male co defendants the three Little pigs " these arc people Wilh wealthy lathers All in their 40s and All bored they go to the same clubs same women and same drug  Broome s Sisler Donna a successful Milan Model dolls the Story o a fast talking Man who Waits at the Airport trying to pick up arriving models. When i first arrived i Wen out Wilh one Guy and soon i was getting Calls Day and night from people i never heard of she says. Unlike Terry Broome who travelled to Italy at age 26 to give modelling a last shot most would be models from America come to Milan to get their Starl. Al Ages 17 to 20, hey come to build their Book the portfolio of pictures they need to attract big agencies and designers. Usually they work under con race to a Milan modelling Agency and slay for Only a few months. The turnover is fast As italian fashion magazines Are constantly looking for new laces. The pay ranges from about $80 a Day for monthly magazines to $400 and up Lor Cata logs. Intense Competition fickle agent and demanding designers can take their loll. The ultimate goal is to be a Star in new York but most of the Lima you have to rewrite thai because  a Small percentage make  says Reeves. A lot of girls come Here and sat Spaghetti Lor a few months and go Back crying to their parents the pressures exist not orgy in Milan. In a Case described by italian newspapers that of the sardinian the Ryb Roome. A v7.year-ofd photo Model from Sardinia named e Sabetta i Leonardo was Slabbed and strangled a Ter Rome a Armeni in june. There have been no or name s sordid Story As recounted in courts. Is that of a desperate woman Terry Broome la serving time for murder. Who could t Hack it in High fashion and hooked into the wrong Circle to survive. The italian Public which packed the Milan courtroom during her Frial adopted her As a Sorf of avenging Angel. Prosecutor Marco Maria Maiga portrayed her As a girl from South Carolina coming to a big european Metropolis and being showered Wilh jewels and  Broome daughter of an air Force sergeant now retired in Elgin s.c., came to Milan from Tho United states in april 1984 after a part time modelling and real estate career plagued by cocaine and alcohol abuse. Her sister invited her to try her Luck in Italy and paid for her piano Lickel but on her second Day in Milan a subway Thiol sole Broome s $1.000. Her Hie savings As she was going to the Bank to change it. She gave photo modelling a try bul got nowhere partly because at age 26 she was at least six years older than the average. Instead she fell in with a last Playboy network Hal supplied her Wilh plenty of Coke booze and parties at one parly at a Milan Villa according to court testimony. Broome slept Wilh two men. She reacted another. Francesco d Alessio a Well known 40 year old Racehorse owner who was separated from his american Model Wile from that Day on d Alessio hounded Broome Wilh lewd gestures and comments. On the night Eljune 26, 1984 Allodi a weekend Binge of cocaine whiskey and valium Broome Well Oil Wilh her sister and their dates to several night clubs where d Alessio showed up and continued to harass her rattled. Broome and her live in jeweler Boyl Nond went Home they argued and to Well to bed she consumed Largo amounts of cocaine and whiskey and came across her Boyfriend s -3b Calib i revolver. She Ihen Well to d Alesso s apartment where another american Model was spending the night. He fed her More cocaine and made sexual advances when she rebuffed him. D Alessio taunted. If i m not enough for you let s Call some of my  according to trial testimony. Seconds later d Alessio Lay mortally wounded with a Bullet in the head and another in the Chest. Broome was arrested the next Day alter fleeing to Zurich Switzerland. I was t trying to kill  Broome testified i Only wanted to scare  the court ruling out premeditation found her guilty of second degree murder. In a report released in september the court said Broome was suffering toxic psychosis caused by cocaine when she killed d Alessio. It said d Alessio s remarks had brought Back the ghosts irom her past noting that she had been raped at the age of 16. Most fashion watchers agree there Are other Terry broomes in Milan women Wilh Little Hope Lor modelling careers who resort to a lorm of prostitution to survive those connected with the Industry Are Quick to disassociate themselves from Broome and her entourage. They insist she was never in the mainstream of modelling and was a victim of Hersell and her own troubled background. Terry Brooma was never a Model and did t want to be says Riccardo Gay a leading modelling agent in Milan. A few years ago you found girls who always wan led to go out to dance and party. But most american Girts today Are More serious and professional. They go to bed Early and Are on  being successful does t leave much time Lor parties and playboys. There s been a real fall off of drugs and playboys says Nadine Frey Milan correspondent Lor women s Wear daily. When i first came Here three years ago you d see playboys at restaurants end discos with 20 year old models. But you Don t see thai  today Terry Broome spends her time making pottery in a prison in Bergamo in the Foothills of the Alps along with a group of italian terrorists. The stars and stripes Page 13