Later Life
A Nazi sympathizer and alleged intelligence operative, Gibson renounced her involvement by 1944. She was arrested as an anti-Fascist agitator and jailed in the Milan prison of San Vittore, from which she escaped with two other prisoners, journalist Indro Montanelli and General Bartolo Zambon. The trio was aided through the intervention of Cardinal Ildefonso Schuster and a young chaplain for the Milanese resistance group Fiamme Verdi, Father Giovanni Barbareschi.
Living in France, in 1946, Gibson died of a heart attack in her apartment at the Hôtel Ritz Paris at age 56. She is buried at Saint Germain-en-Laye Cemetery. Gibson's estate was divided between her lover, Emilio Antonio Ramos, press attaché for the Spanish Embassy in Paris, and her mother.
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