A rock museum with an adjoining music school named after Steven Tyler in a small village of 5000 inhabitants in Calabria, funding from the Region, the hijacked project, the complaint from the Aerosmith singer. It's a story told by Republic.
As is known, the singer's real surname is not Tyler, but Tallarico. Grandfather Giovanni emigrated to the United States from Cotronei, in the province of Crotone, in Calabria. With his brother he started a group, the Tallarico Brothers. When in 2013 Tyler went to Cotronei on a sort of journey into his roots he met Nino Grassi, nephew of his grandfather's brother who, unlike Giovanni, had then returned to Italy. In Calabria Tyler received the proposal to create a rock museum dedicated to him with an adjoining music school for the less well-off. The singer had wanted it at Palazzo Bevilacqua, the old family residence.
The project, explains Alessia Candito on Republicthe Calabria Region likes it and finances it with 1.3 million euros, Tyler promises to perform at the inauguration bringing his daughter Liv. But apparently the owners of Palazzo Bevilacqua are not even contacted and the museum is being planned for another property (paid for when it reports Rep worth its weight in gold). Tyler finds out and warns the Municipality against using his name and obviously memorabilia that he would have made available. “They built a reinforced concrete structure, something that makes no sense,” he says to Adnkronos Grassi, lawyer and second cousin of the singer he represents in Italy and who filed a complaint.
“Yet we proceed with the museum, stringing together – we read in the papers – fake after fake,” he explains Republic. “In order not to lose the funds, despite the disruption of the project and the delay monstersthe administration even tries to shift the responsibility onto the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage, which in reality was never contacted. The prosecutors discovered this when they began to sift through the avalanche of papers attached to the complaint presented by the lawyer Grassi.”
After the Carabinieri investigation, there are 15 suspects under investigation, including the current mayor Antonio Ammirati and the previous one Nicola Belcastro, plus councillors, councilors and municipal managers. The crimes contested in an investigation of which the so-called rock music village is only a part are ideological and material falsehood in a public document, aggravated fraud for the obtaining of public funds, electoral corruption (in exchange for preferences they promised two entrepreneurs to assign the organization of events not related to this story), extortion, extortion and attempted undue inducement to give or promise benefits.
