Widower Under Investigation After Ex Beauty Queen Wifes Fatal Fall From Hotel Balcony

The husband of an Italian former beauty queen who fell to her death from a hotel balcony three years ago is under investigation for manslaughter over the incident.

Annamaria Sorrentino died two days after falling from the balcony of a hotel in the municipality of Parghelia in the southern Italian region of Calabria.

Sorrentino was a former beauty queen, having previously been crowned Miss Campania, the southern, populous Italian region of which Naples is the capital city.

Annamaria Sorrentino who has died after falling from a balcony on 16th July 2019 in Parghelia, Italy pictured with her husband Paolo Foresta. (Newsflash)

She was on holiday with her husband and some friends at the time of the incident, which took place on 16th July 2019.

She was taken by ambulance to hospital, where she died two days later, at the age of 29.

The husband, Paolo Foresta, is now under investigation for manslaughter, while two friends are being probed for aiding and abetting.

Annamaria Sorrentino who has died after falling from a balcony on 16th July 2019 in Parghelia, Italy pictured with her husband Paolo Foresta. (Newsflash)

Foresta is believed to have had a violent quarrel with Sorrentino after allegedly finding out his wife was cheating on him with another man.

The other man and his own wife were reportedly on holiday with the couple at the time.

A few minutes before her fall, Sorrentino made a video call to her sister in which she appeared worried, even asking that her sister come to Calabria to pick her up.

Annamaria Sorrentino who has died after falling from a balcony on 16th July 2019 in Parghelia, Italy pictured with her husband Paolo Foresta. (Newsflash)

However, Foresta, 36, snatched her phone from her hands and told Luisa Sorrentino that everything was fine and that she was not needed.

The prosecutor believes that the Casoria native attacked his wife after finding out about the alleged affair and that Sorrentino fell off the balcony to escape his beating.

The two friends under investigation for aiding and abetting have been named as Gaetano Ciccarelli, 36, from Naples and his wife, Francesca Nero, also 36.

Annamaria Sorrentino, who has died after falling from a balcony on 16th July 2019 in Parghelia, Italy. (Newsflash)

Another friend whom Sorrentino had also video-called reported some months after the incident that Ciccarelli had pushed Sorrentino against a wooden balustrade.

Sorrentino was hearing-impaired and communicated with the friends she was on holiday with, who are also hearing-impaired, via sign language.

The friend she video called is also hearing-impaired.

Annamaria Sorrentino, who has died after falling from a balcony on 16th July 2019 in Parghelia, Italy. (Newsflash)

On the alleged affair, Luisa Sorrentino has said that her sister and her husband had already ended their relationship.

She was quoted in local media as saying: “If she were having a relationship, she was having it as a free woman, because she was already done with her husband.

“He has always been violent. Twice my sister had a miscarriage precisely because of his mistreatment.”

The house where Annamaria Sorrentino has died after falling from a balcony on 16th July 2019 in Parghelia, Italy. (Newsflash)

The victim’s family has never believed the suicide hypothesis and still seeks clarification over what really happened on that fateful day.