The money was taken by those advising Ursula Andress on her finances.

$23 million of Bond star’s fortune recovered by Italian authorities

The money was taken by those advising Ursula Andress on her finances.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

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Ursula Andress in 'Dr. No' in 1962. Credit:

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Original Bond girl Ursula Andress once lost a $23 million fortune when she was allegedly swindled by her financial advisers. Italian authorities said Thursday that they'd recovered it in the form of artworks and other assets.

"Assets fraudulently misappropriated from Ursula Andress have been identified," the law enforcement agency Guardia di Finanza posted on social media. "Goods, works of art, and financial holdings totaling approximately €20 million have been seized."

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In January, the actress told Swiss newspaper Blick that she had lost 18 million Swiss francs, the equivalent of about $23 million, to fraud by the financial professional she had worked with for eight years, according to the Associated Press. By that point he had reportedly died.

"I am still in shock," the outlet quoted Andress as saying. "I was deliberately chosen as a victim. For eight years, I was courted and wooed. They lied to me shamelessly and exploited my goodwill in a perfidious, indeed criminal, way in order to take everything from me. They took advantage of my age."

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Authorities had not said whether arrests were made in the case.

Andress, 90, starred in the 1962 film *Dr. No*, which was directed by Terrence Young. She played Honey Ryder to Sean Connery's James Bond.

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Ursula Andress in 2017.

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Five years after her appearance in* Dr. No*, Andress played Vesper Lynd in a spoof of the Bond movies, 1967's *Casino Royale*. (Not to be confused with the official, 2006 film *Casino Royale* that starred Daniel Craig as Bond and Ava Green as the Lynd character.)

Andress' other acting work over the years has included movies such as 1963's *Fun in Acapulco*, with Elvis Presley; *What's New Pussycat*, alongside Peter Sellers, in 1965; and 1981's *Clash of the Titans*, in which she played Aphrodite. She also appeared on TV shows such as *The Love Boat* and *Falcon Crest *in the '80s.

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