HOW COULD PERUGGIA DIE IN 1947 WHEN HE HAD ALREADY BEEN DEAD FOR NEARLY 22 YEARS?

On this day in 1947, French newspapers reported that Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa died in Annemasse, a small village in the Haute-Savoie area of France. The problem was, that guy wasn't Peruggia. Vincenzo Peruggia died in a suburb of Paris on October 8, 1925 -- 22 years earlier of a heart attack.  So who was the man who died in Haute Savoie?  according to Celestina Peruggia, Vincenzo's 86-year-old daughter who we've interviewed at length for our film, he was an indigent or what we used to call a "bum." He had either found or had stolen Peruggia's ID and had gone around masquerading as him.  It's amazing how many people still believe this story. Check wikipedia they have his date of death as September 2, 1947.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia

But we have his death certificate, a portion of which is reproduced below