Aniello is a regular visitor to Zannone, taking tourists on boat trips to the wildest atoll among the Pontine archipelago off the west coast of Italy. The big attraction, aside from the island's natural beauty, is its dark, sexy past, most of which centers around the Marquis and his wife, Anna Fallarino, a former actress.He was a lewd man, a voyeur who liked to watch and photograph his starlet wife get kinky having sex with with other younger guys. Aniello adds, enjoying spinning R-rated tales as he navigates a maze of reddish-yellow cliffs, old stone fisheries and sea stacks.Then one day he got fed up of the threesome, shot the two lovers and killed himself. During the 1960s, Zannone -- meaning "big fang" in Italian -- was a secret vacation retreat that the chic and sexually adventurous aristocratic couple had rented from the state. The nobleman went hunting while his beautiful wife killed time doing different activities," says Aniello.Guests and hosts drank heavily. During recent maintenance work, heaps of broken bottles and glass shards were found buried in the ground by local authorities. According to rumors, the villa also featured a "hidden mirror room" to spy on heavy sex sessions. The villa was a hot jet-society get-together," recalls former caretaker Salvatore Pagano, an old Zannone sea dog who once lived next door to the marquises. "It was crazy here. Residents living on nearby Ponza island, from where today's guided tours depart, still recall the scandalous couple.We all knew what was happening there," says tourist guide Riccardo Peci. "It was dubbed the 'sex parties isle,' but nobody ever uttered a word about it back then.
