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In November 1955, Colonel Carlos Eugenio de Moori
Koenig was tasked with protecting and hiding Evita’s
corpse from the revolutionaries. The story goes that
he kept her body as a trophy to impress his friends.
More disturbing than his ostentatious display were
the sexual acts Moori Koenig supposedly engaged
with Eva’s corpse. When rumors about his perversion
reached high ranking officers, they took Eva’s body
away from the Colonel. With the help of the Vatican,
Eva Peron, under a false name Maria Maggi de
Magistris, an Italian widow, was buried standing up in
a cemetery in Milan, Italy.
And there she would have rested, but for another
military coup in 1971. Argentina’s new president,
General Alejandro Lanusse, reinstated Peron’s citizen-
ship and agreed to return the body to Peron’s home

Eva Peron’s last resting place.
Opposite: Eva and Juan Peron.
.A scene from Pablo Aguero’s
dreamy, semi-experimental
film, Eva Doesn’t Sleep (Eva No
Duerme).
Courtesy Toronto Film Festival

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