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00:00An Oklahoma town so rich, it inspired a Hollywood movie.
00:06We had benefited from our own resources.
00:09We'd been like Kuwaitis or Qataris, but somehow it all went out the door.
00:17In Cambodia, a place of learning that was turned into a chamber of horrors.
00:23For the survivors, it's really important to continue to tell their stories.
00:30And a secret Latvian facility designed with malicious intent.
00:38It's possible that they received images of all missions before the American public.
00:50Decaying relics.
00:54Ruins of lost worlds.
00:56Sites haunted by the past.
01:04Their secrets waiting to be revealed.
01:08In the sleepy town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is the relic of a time when greed and treachery ravaged a community.
01:24There must be at most a few thousand people living here, but the buildings are pretty grand.
01:34Why would all of this be here in such a small town?
01:36A distinctive ruin at its center holds the key.
01:40Walking in, you find yourself in a big entrance room or lobby.
01:46Intricate mosaics cover the floors, and ornate plasterwork decorates the walls and ceilings.
01:54Other spaces look like they might have been apartments.
01:57Some are stripped bare, while others still have desks or bed frames inside.
02:03This must have been some kind of hotel or boarding house maybe.
02:07Its opulence has now faded, but in its day, this was one of the most prestigious buildings in the area.
02:15There was clearly a lot of money being made and spent around town.
02:21But where did it all come from?
02:23This building is linked to one of the biggest booms in economic history.
02:30But everything you see was most likely paid for with stolen money.
02:36It's because of what this land had to offer.
02:39Soon, it would all be soaked in blood.
02:42I always tell people, there's ghosts here.
02:51And when I say that, it's the ghost of our past, our history.
02:55Scott Trotter has a passion for old buildings.
02:59Since 2021, he's been working hard to preserve this site.
03:04This was where everybody came, all the wealthy, famous, infamous.
03:09They stayed here.
03:10This was the most luxurious hotel anywhere in the area.
03:16There was a good reason this was the place to be.
03:20In the early 20th century, Pawhuska was one of the wealthiest towns in America.
03:26This was becoming like this new, little New York here on the prairie.
03:30Every shop you can imagine, every car that they were making at that time was being sold in these streets.
03:35What drew people here was the discovery of a valuable commodity, oil.
03:41It led into the, you know, the free-flowing money and that black gold flowing through the streets here in the 1920s.
03:51News of this boom quickly spread around the country and outsiders flocked here looking to get a piece of the action.
03:57We had all these oil moguls and all these big wigs. This is the place they'd come and stay.
04:06This is the Duncan Hotel.
04:08It was named after and financed by two entrepreneurial brothers, lured to Pawhuska by the financial opportunities it offered.
04:18The hotel first opened in 1910.
04:22Everybody was coming to this town to start businesses and put in stores.
04:27That's why they spared no expense to build this place because they knew they were going to fill it.
04:33In the mid-1920s, business was booming so much in Pawhuska that the Duncan brothers decided to build an expansion onto their hotel.
04:41These are some of the most expensive pieces of porcelain. Top of its line at that time. This was the best of the best.
04:55But everything at the Duncan may have been built on a lie.
05:01One that has its origins when the rightful owners of this area first acquired the territory.
05:07Tali Redcorn is a member of the Osage Nation.
05:12They signed their first treaty with the United States in 1808.
05:18And then in the 1870s, we moved from Kansas, had a treaty, and moved into Oklahoma, current Osage Reservation.
05:29Part of the reason this land was available is because white settlers saw this region as being less desirable than others.
05:37In other parts of the state.
05:39That's because only around 2% of the land was suitable for growing crops.
05:45Little did they know, there was a vast reservoir of wealth just beneath the ground.
05:50Oil really impacted the lives of the Osage, and it brought a lot of money.
05:57Some estimates put it around $240 million, which is like billions of dollars in today's money.
06:04We were per capita the richest folks on this planet at that time.
06:12Suddenly you've got luxury car dealerships, you know, high-end boutiques, fancy hotels like the Duncan popping up.
06:22The entire town was transformed.
06:24But for the Osage, the discovery of oil was both a blessing and a curse.
06:32When the scale of wealth became clear, Congress passes a law.
06:37They say that basically anyone who is half Osage or more has to have a court-appointed guardian to look after them.
06:49The guardians were chosen from local white businessmen and lawyers who were given almost complete control of their Osage Ward's money.
06:58You got somebody that's your guardian and you're young and they're not looking out for your best interests, bad things are going to happen.
07:08It's believed that these guardians swindled their clients out of millions.
07:14That money is ours, but it's God out of our control and out of our people.
07:19We like to say we built Ponca City, Bartlesville and Tulsa on Osage oil.
07:27It's also said that a lot of the buildings in Paulhauska were actually built with stolen Osage money.
07:33And it seems the Duncan Hotel was no exception.
07:37If you follow the money, you'll get the answers you're looking for.
07:40In Oklahoma are the remains of a once opulent hotel with suspicious origins.
07:54It's believed that in the early 1900s, this building was illicitly constructed using funds that belonged to the Osage Nation.
08:02Descendants of Waken Iron, a local tribesman, attest that his oil wealth was funneled by his government-appointed guardian into this structure without his knowledge.
08:16Once construction was complete, he was told that the venture he had invested in had gone bust and all the money was gone.
08:25So all the glamour and high-end amenities of the Duncan are perhaps the product of the widespread theft of Osage wealth.
08:36I've heard story after story where the families were destroyed.
08:41It was just a movement of resources away from the Osage and into someone else's hands.
08:48This tragic story would be repeated across the Osage Nation.
08:52So if you've seen the Martin Scorsese movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, it's showing the horrifying lengths people would go to to get their hands on all of that money.
09:05While the film shows the two main characters being caught and brought to justice, this wasn't the case of everyone suspected of being involved.
09:12This brutal period became known as the Reign of Terror.
09:16It's estimated that hundreds were killed and millions of dollars were stolen.
09:22For my great-grandfather, his name was Raymond Redcorn.
09:27Possibly he was murdered.
09:29It's really impacted my family.
09:32The wealth that maybe other Osages experienced, we didn't really have because of this tragedy.
09:38It would take many years for the sheer scale of the Osage betrayal to be widely acknowledged.
09:46For much of that time, the Duncan continued to operate, its fortune still tied to the oil industry.
09:52But in December 1981, a fire broke out. The Inferno sealed the fate of the Duncan Hotel.
10:01In 2011, after a ten-year legal battle, the federal government paid out $380 million to the Osage.
10:17The truth is, they are likely owed much more.
10:22Regardless, Talley is focused on the future.
10:26Bad things happen, yes.
10:28But the better thing to do is to move forward.
10:36We're very appreciative to what God's given us.
10:39And that's what's important to me, especially when I get older.
10:42In Cambodia's capital is a seemingly ordinary structure that served as the site of a betrayal so shocking, it still haunts the country.
11:00In the middle of a busy block are a collection of rectangular, three-story buildings.
11:05It's a pretty nondescript structure, very institutional appearance. It doesn't look fancy.
11:12There are some grassy areas, perhaps for recreation, which suggests that the site may have had a civic purpose.
11:20But what exactly was it for?
11:23Off each of the breezy corridors are a number of different-sized empty rooms.
11:28The walls are bare and the floor is tiled. If you imagine that there were maybe desks in here, perhaps this was a classroom.
11:39But if this were a place of learning, there are certain features harder to explain.
11:47One of the buildings is covered with barbed wire from top to bottom.
11:52And the interior is lined with what can only be described as cells.
11:57And there are hundreds of them.
11:58Inside these walls, some of the greatest crimes against humanity of the 20th century were perpetrated by a regime which basically pledged to wipe out all opposition.
12:10I visited this place for the first time in 2015 when I was a third-year college student.
12:24The experience left me feeling sorrowful and full of questions.
12:30The search for answers inspired Wern Wunde to return to this complex as a custodian of its history.
12:37I was curious as to how a place that was meant to impart knowledge and education turned into a site which inflicted great pain on the Cambodian people.
12:51The structure that stands here today was originally built in 1962.
12:57It was the Prea Panhe Yat High School and the Tuol Slang Primary School.
13:04So these were classrooms.
13:05Yet nationalized education was a new concept for the nation, established once Cambodia gained freedom from French colonial rule in 1953.
13:18Previously, only around 50,000 Cambodians received formal elementary schooling.
13:25Before long, it was around a million.
13:27For over a decade, this was simply a place where children came to learn, play and be safe.
13:35But soon, even education itself was considered a crime and punishable by death.
13:41But the transformation didn't happen overnight.
13:42By the early 1950s, as the Cold War escalated, China and North Vietnam fell to communist regimes.
13:55The ideology also began to take root in Cambodia.
13:59In the early 1960s, a small group of Cambodians led by Salath Tsar, later known as Pol Pot, formed the Communist Party of Kampuchea, later known as the Khmer Rouge.
14:13They wanted a radical communist revolution that would erase all Western influences and set up a solely agrarian society.
14:23At first, they were small in number and posed very little threat.
14:29But when a right-wing pro-U.S. military coup toppled the head of state, Prince Noradam Sihanoc, in 1970, the Khmer Rouge began to attract increasing support.
14:41Civil war erupted, and over the next five years, Pol Pot's forces gradually took greater control of the countryside.
14:52He now had the numbers to launch an all-out assault on Cambodia's capital.
14:57On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers entered Phnom Penh, and many people came to celebrate their victory.
15:14It seemed that after five years of fighting, the war was finally over.
15:19In reality, something far worse was to come.
15:22After only a few hours, Khmer Rouge troops started firing into the air.
15:30This was the beginning of the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh.
15:35About three to four million lived in the cities.
15:38This big urban population in cities like Phnom Penh was marched into the countryside and converted into peasants.
15:45In the space of 24 hours, they had to leave everything behind.
15:48Anyone who was thought to pose a threat to this revolution was rounded up in these specially designed detention centers.
16:01There were 189 of these sites across the country.
16:05This was the most notorious.
16:08Its name was Security Prison 21.
16:12On arrival, after being measured and photographed, the prisoners were stripped and shackled to the floor in a cell barely big enough to sit down in.
16:23They were made to sit.
16:27There was a metal stick put across their legs and they were locked into the chain like this.
16:31It was commonplace for the prisoners to be interrogated and tortured three times a day.
16:43They were forced to give detailed biographies of their lives.
16:47Often this information was then used to round up other people.
16:50The brutality of the Khmer Rouge is absolutely shocking.
16:57If you were a lawyer, doctor or teacher, that was enough to get you arrested and killed.
17:02But as time went on, the Khmer Rouge became increasingly paranoid and began to turn on its own members.
17:11Even children.
17:12When I was arrested and sent to this place, I was nine years old.
17:24In Cambodia is a former school that was turned into a death camp under the Khmer Rouge regime.
17:31Anyone deemed a threat to the revolution was rounded up and incarcerated, including their own comrades.
17:38Norn Chan Pal was nine years old in December 1978, when the Khmer Rouge summoned his father, a regime supporter, to the capital.
17:51Eight days later, they came to our family and informed us that we would be reunited with him in Phnom Penh.
17:58We thought our father would come to get us, but we didn't see our father at all.
18:01We didn't know we were being sent to jail. We were so scared and shocked.
18:11On arrival, Chan Pal's mother was interrogated in front of her children.
18:17When my mother gave a wrong answer a few times, she would be tortured.
18:21I ran and hugged her when I saw the situation. At that time, they used a gun to hit her when she refused to answer, and I tried to cover her, but I was hit in my back.
18:34The next day, the siblings were moved to a different part of the compound.
18:38My mother hugged me. She was in tears and very upset. But she didn't explain what was happening. The last time I saw her, she was standing holding a window frame and looking at us.
18:56I looked at her a few times, and she disappeared from the window.
19:00At the time, Chan Pal and his brother were not aware that their mother was likely killed that same day.
19:15Neither did they know that outside the prison walls, Pol Pot's grip on power was weakening.
19:23Ultimately, it wasn't the Khmer Rouge's violence against their own people that toppled the regime.
19:27It was the fact they started a war against their neighbors, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos.
19:36The goal was to take back territory that had once been a part of the Khmer Empire centuries ago.
19:44In late December 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia, sending tanks and thousands of troops across the border.
19:53Khmer Rouge fighters made a chaotic retreat.
19:58By early January 1979, Vietnamese forces closed in on Phnom Penh.
20:05They found a city that was practically deserted.
20:08And they discovered this S-21 prison complex, and it's said that the way they discovered it is they smelled rotting bodies.
20:17At least 18,063 people were sent here, but only 12 survived. Eight adults and four children.
20:26Norn Chan Paul and his brother were two of those children.
20:35They only lived because they hid when the Khmer troops abandoned the prison.
20:40I came outside and saw two Vietnamese soldiers. The person holding the AK gun was pointing it at me and asking,
20:52Are you Pol Pot's child? I told him that I wasn't Pol Pot's child.
20:57We were then taken to the hospital to recover from our health issues, and afterwards we were placed in an orphanage.
21:04By the time Pol Pot is deposed, it's estimated that he's basically murdered about 1.5 to 3 million of his people.
21:18At the very least, a quarter of his own population.
21:20The newly installed moderate communist government chose to leave S-21 and to open it as a museum of genocide.
21:33Pol Pot died before he could be brought to answer for his crimes.
21:38S-21 exists as a prescient reminder of the human capacity to inflict unspeakable cruelty.
21:55For the lucky few that did survive, telling their story has become a way of fighting back.
22:01I was left speechless when I first visited Tuol Sleng.
22:09It brought back all the memories and I couldn't hold back my tears.
22:14However, as I started working closely with this place, I shared my story with visitors and I began to feel better.
22:22Tuol Sleng is no longer a prison to me.
22:25In Western Latvia are the remnants of a forbidden site that for many years officially never existed.
22:44We're about two miles from the coast in an area of dense forest.
22:48But then you see the very distinct type of housing that we saw after World War II.
22:56It's not elegant, but it got the job done.
23:00They seem out of place.
23:02Why would these apartment blocks be thrown up in the middle of nowhere?
23:06Inside they've been gutted, but there's a few kind of clues here and there as to their former life.
23:13A little bit of wallpaper, a family living room, a kitchen.
23:16While little remains to help piece together a picture of who was here, the question of why they were here is soon answered.
23:27Beyond the buildings, rising above the trees, you see these enormous antennas.
23:33These things look like something you might use to search for signals from alien life.
23:38But what are they doing here in the middle of Latvia?
23:40When the world stood on the precipice of global conflict, this site held the key to humanity's survival and destruction.
23:54The stakes in the Cold War are so high.
23:57If there is a way to defend yourselves with technology, you use it.
24:01For two decades, most Latvians didn't know this covert site existed because it never appeared on any maps.
24:15In 2013, Arnis Berzinc came to work as a technical specialist at this remote facility.
24:22When I saw it for the first time, I was amazed.
24:26It was one of the top secret places in the Baltic States.
24:31In the city, there were 2,000 people from the Soviet Union.
24:35The motive for the site's construction was simple, to gain the upper hand in the Cold War by any means necessary.
24:46As the conflict intensified, the methods became increasingly clandestine.
24:51Instead of direct confrontation with kinetic weapons, the confrontation in the Cold War is at a remove.
25:02It's technology versus technology.
25:05And the Soviets especially were obsessed with projecting an image of competence and success.
25:11A pivotal moment in the race for technological superiority came in 1957, when the battlefield shifted to a new frontier.
25:23The Soviets had sent up the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, which orbited the Earth, sending down a beeping radio signal.
25:31This was a huge deal, because for the first time, messages could be sent and received between spacecraft and Earth.
25:42In the U.S., people were completely freaked out by this. They had no idea the Soviets were so advanced.
25:48Less than a year later, in 1958, NASA was created to help combat the threat.
25:56The space race was on, and our world would never be the same again.
26:03Within the ten years after Sputnik, more than 800 satellites had been launched by both sides.
26:10They become part of our way of life, and they become part of our way of war.
26:16Whoever could communicate the fastest would have a huge advantage in any conflict, especially in this nuclear age when a devastating war might unfold in just a few minutes.
26:31But with the right equipment, these new communication lines could be vulnerable to interception.
26:38That's exactly where this place came in.
26:41The U.S. military had bases all over Western Europe, and this facility was right on their doorstep.
26:51This is the secret Soviet town of Urbene, codenamed Little Star.
26:59In the late 1960s, its first radio telescope began operating.
27:04Its mission had one goal.
27:06The purpose was to obtain information, data sent by enemy satellites, to NATO observation points in Western Europe or in the USA.
27:22The information was going directly to Moscow.
27:25To build, operate, and keep all of this running, it required a vast amount of manpower.
27:33You need scientists to actually capture the results of your spying.
27:40You need engineers to repair it.
27:44You've got to build a place for them to live.
27:45There was four residential buildings, which was given to officers and their families.
27:53There was a medical center, barracks for 500 soldiers, kindergarten and school.
28:00There was everything for quite a good life.
28:03Over the next decade, Moscow's spy masters ordered two more antennae to be installed.
28:11Each one bigger than the last.
28:14Enabling the Soviets to eavesdrop on one of America's most iconic moments.
28:20Ten, nine, ignition sequence start.
28:24And there's a story that they intercepted in 1969, the signals from the USA Apollo mission on the moon.
28:40One small step for man.
28:45One giant leap for mankind.
28:47One giant leap for mankind.
28:48One giant leap for mankind.
28:50One giant leap for mankind.
28:52It's possible that they received images of all their mission before the American public.
28:56But the true purpose of this complex was far more sinister.
28:59It was intended to give the Soviets an edge over America if nuclear war erupted.
29:07In the late 1970s, it looked like that moment had come.
29:11come, when a U.S. ally in Europe identified what they thought was a deployed Russian missile.
29:18This news shocked the Soviets, because they knew they hadn't launched any weapons.
29:24It said that they picked up some sort of panicked messages from Sweden that said that the Swedish
29:29technicians had picked up a sign of a Soviet nuclear attack.
29:35If news of the alleged attack reached the U.S., the Soviets knew the outcome was mutually
29:41assured destruction.
29:43All the radio operators at Urbany could do was inform their superiors and wait.
29:48They were listening in with bated breath until the Swedish radio signals reported that it
29:56was not anything to worry about, but actually just like a large flock of birds.
30:02This anecdote sounds kind of funny, but it shows it was entirely possible for a devastating
30:07nuclear war to begin just on a mistake like that.
30:13For the next ten years, workers at Urbany continued to listen in on America and its allies.
30:20Yet it appeared the secret base wasn't as secret as the Soviets thought.
30:27In the 1980s, listeners at the station recall getting a message from the United States that
30:33said, Dear Soviet spies, Happy New Years.
30:39As it turned out, this was the very least of the communist regime's problems.
30:44By the late 1980s, the whole Soviet system was starting to crumble.
30:49They were bankrupting themselves with projects like this.
30:57In Latvia is the ruin of a former Soviet base.
31:02It operated in secret until the late 1980s, when cracks in the Iron Curtain began to appear.
31:10The first pieces to fall are the Baltic Republics, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia.
31:17They all declare independence from the Soviet Union.
31:23But the Russians weren't really keen on handing over a working spy station to a potential enemy,
31:31a potential American ally.
31:35When the Latvian officials arrived, they were pretty horrified to discover that Russian security
31:42services were destroying everything they could.
31:45The cables like this, this is examples, there are nails in the cables, and there was a lot
31:52of them.
31:53And they're pouring acid inside the generators and electricity motors.
32:00The Latvian scientists didn't give up.
32:03The former Soviet technology provided the perfect opportunity for the newly independent nation
32:10to establish its own center for space study.
32:13It was a really big job.
32:16We put new systems.
32:18Everything was changing.
32:20We used for astrophysics, radio astronomy, and space science.
32:25This place that was built as part of a Cold War military and espionage operation today is
32:41engaged in cooperative, peaceful research and communication around the world.
32:52In Northern Italy, 50 miles from Venice, lies an unlikely field of dreams.
33:01We're in an area that's a patchwork of long, straight fields, little country houses.
33:11It's very, very idyllic.
33:14But then, slap bang in the middle of this very ordinary scene, there's something completely
33:20extraordinary.
33:22There are these two giant, rusting old airplanes, and it just doesn't make any sense because
33:28there's nothing nearby that should have big airplanes right there.
33:33So you just have to ask the question, why are they here?
33:38Inside the control tower, the plot thickens.
33:43There's what looks like a professional oven.
33:45Now, I've not been inside many control towers, but that doesn't seem normal to me.
33:51In an adjacent building, things get even stranger.
33:56It appears to be some sort of renaissance villa.
33:59And everywhere you look, there's some pretty iconic artwork.
34:04It is so bizarre to have these two vastly different things, planes and renaissance art, all in one
34:12compound.
34:14Everything seen here was the brainchild of an entrepreneur with a wild vision, but who failed
34:21to consider the consequences of his ambition.
34:26Almost as soon as the doors opened, it was forced into a tailspin.
34:38Luigi Stecca is the man responsible for this surreal complex.
34:46I created this myself in every little detail.
34:49My life is in this place.
34:54The inspiration came to him while working at a nursing hall in the early 1990s.
35:02The elderly people used to say to me, Luigi, what I wouldn't give to go on a plane.
35:09They would also talk to him about how they always dreamed of going to Florence and Rome,
35:14seeing the great renaissance masters work.
35:18So Luigi thinks to himself, maybe I can create a place to bring these two things together.
35:24And if I can make some money off the back of it too, then why not?
35:28In 1998, Luigi decided to turn his dream into a reality.
35:35This is the Michelangelo da Vinci restaurant, a curious passion project that combined the
35:42love of air travel with food and art.
35:46The restaurant was a hit from the beginning, but very quickly local bureaucrats decided
35:53they needed their peace.
36:01In Villa Marsana, Italy is a bizarre flight of fancy.
36:05The creator, Luigi Stecca, pulled out all of the stops to bring his dream to life.
36:11The cost alone of buying and transporting the planes was in the region of $100,000.
36:20I searched until I found the planes.
36:23I found one in Cingoli, in the Marque, and one in Porto Racanati.
36:31He then needed to arrange a police escort to get them back safely.
36:35Then, once here, we put the planes down on the ground.
36:40And then we started reassembling the wings using cranes.
36:46But Luigi wasn't done yet.
36:49For his new venture, he wanted to recreate in perfect detail some of the world's finest
36:55artworks.
36:56This isn't a caricature of the Renaissance.
37:01These are real paintings.
37:03They look good.
37:04You've got Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam and The Last Judgment, the original of
37:11which sits above the altar in the Sistine Chapel.
37:14All in, everything cost me 10 billion lira.
37:20In total, that's around $4 million of borrowed money.
37:25The pressure was on to make the business a success.
37:29In the summer of 2000, the restaurant opened its doors.
37:36It was truly exciting to see this room full of people and the tables turning over.
37:42It would have been 2,000 to 3,000 people.
37:44All of this filled me with joy.
37:48You have airplanes attached to a fake control tower in the middle of nowhere.
37:55It's just wild that this place was so popular.
37:58One reason was that Luigi had a secret weapon to keep customers coming back for more.
38:05The restaurant became famous for its oval-shaped pizzas, which apparently was the only place in Italy you could get them at the time.
38:15I won the European pizza championship.
38:18My strength was the quality of the pizza dough.
38:22The secret is not to use tap water.
38:26But it's not just about that.
38:31I have personal secrets.
38:32I can't say more.
38:38The money was pouring in, and it looked like Luigi's ambitious risk was paying off.
38:46I felt proud and happy.
38:48These are experiences that one needs to have to believe they are possible.
38:52There was a constant stream of people lining up to get a table here.
38:59But it also caught the attention of the wrong kind of people.
39:05After a few months of being open, local authorities came knocking at the door.
39:11But they didn't come for the pizza.
39:15The government comes after Luigi, claiming that he didn't get any building permits,
39:20or the correct ones, to build the Michelangelo da Vinci.
39:28They were angry at me for the planes.
39:31What they called illegal constructions.
39:34They said I had built illegally here.
39:40The government demanded that the restaurant be brought up to code.
39:43But they also demanded that Luigi pay a massive fine for breaking the rules.
39:49Which at the time was over half a million dollars.
39:54Luigi was on the verge of bankruptcy and faced losing his beloved business.
39:59His only option was to fight back.
40:02He spends literally years fighting this.
40:05He goes back and forth with the authorities.
40:08They say he has to bring his buildings up to code.
40:11He says he will.
40:13But there was one thing that government officials wouldn't budge on.
40:17And that was that he would have to pay the massive fine.
40:22Luigi remained defiant.
40:25But in 2015, the judge ordered him to pay up.
40:30Although, by that time, the Michelangelo da Vinci restaurant had already been forced to close for good.
40:41Only I know how much I suffered.
40:43I cried under the planes.
40:45Here on my own, I cried.
40:47Over the next decade, Luigi's labor of love became the target of vandals.
40:59Now, local businessman Gianluca Bertin has big plans to bring it back to life.
41:08I came here for the first time three years ago.
41:11And I fell in love with it.
41:13Right then, I knew I wanted to buy it.
41:17What we're doing now are small adjustments to fix the external part.
41:22It's a very demanding job.
41:24But we expect to open in the spring of 2025.
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