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The exclusive Italian beach town where half the population is in exile

By Marianna Giusti
Financial Times·
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Forte dei Marmi has become an inconspicuous refuge for some of the world’s most conspicuous people, writes Marianna Giusti.

The boy looked dead. He was no older than 19, with modelesque features and dressed in designer clothes, sat on a bench on the Lungomare esplanade under pink dusklight. When we tried to shake him awake, his head flopped backwards. Someone called for help. Taupe bicycles with wicker baskets slow-motioned past us and women with fresh blow-drys and solid-gold jewellery

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