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week or so.’” Gisela says no one, Little Paul included, really took the idea seriously. That was until the Mafia got involved.

Little Paul was friendly with the gangsters who kidnapped him, Gisela says, selling paintings in exchange for drugs.

But then Gisela and Jutta’s lives came under threat. They were told by a Mafia boss called Ciambellone he wanted to invest in a film they were making, but he lured them into a trap. The twins were kept for two days by cocaine-fuelled captors.

During their ordeal, they were tied up, threatened with rape and strangulation and forced to watch pornography. Ciambellone stabbed himself because Jutta refused to be his mistress.

“There was blood all over the floor,” says Gisela, who later had an affair with Dennis Hopper The twins managed to break free and insisted Little Paul cut all ties with his Mafia “friends”. Weeks later, he vanished. Little Paul had been thrown into the back of a van and put in a cave more than 300 miles south of Rome. The Mafia killed his pet bird and played Russian roulette against his head when a ransom note was rejected by his grandfather, who despite being worth $2billion had payphones for guests at his Surrey mansion “I have 14 grandchildren,” he said. “If I pay a penny I’ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.”

He suspected the plot was about Little Paul trying to extort money from