Family of US Executive Demands Full Investigation After She Was Killed on Rented Boat
The family of a U.S. publishing executive killed in a boating collision in southern Italy is urging Italian authorities to fully investigate the death and hold accountable anyone responsible.
“We are cooperating with the Italian authorities in their investigations, and will continue to do so until they conclude,” Mike White, husband of Adrienne Vaughan, said in a statement late Thursday to The Associated Press on behalf of their family.
Vaughan, the 45-year-old president of Bloomsbury Publishing’s U.S. branch, was killed Aug. 3 when the rented motorboat her family had hired slammed into a chartered sailboat off the Amalfi Coast.
The motorboat’s skipper is under investigation for suspected manslaughter and causing a shipwreck, prosecutors have said.
No charges have yet been announced.
Skipper of boat in crash that killed Bloomsbury USA president Adrienne Vaughan on Amalfi coast faces manslaughter investigation https://t.co/BBNpmXxDHD pic.twitter.com/mMCH9g1NOX
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) August 5, 2023
Salerno Prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli said Aug. 5 that Vaughan was sunning herself on the boat’s bow and bounced into the water at the moment of impact.
Two doctors who were among the passengers on the sailboat dived into the sea to try to help and a nearby vessel brought her to shore, but Vaughan died before she could be taken to the hospital.
White and the motorboat’s skipper were injured; the family’s two children were unharmed.
Harry Potter publisher Adrienne Vaughan killed in horror speedboat crash in front of husband and kids https://t.co/ZHws7g1eqk pic.twitter.com/OfxE29Pu1n
— New York Post (@nypost) August 5, 2023
In the statement issued by a spokesman, White said Vaughan’s death had devastated the family.
“Her absence from our lives and the terrible circumstances of her death are impossible to comprehend,” he said.
“We look to the Italian authorities to fully investigate the circumstances leading to Adrienne’s death, to ascertain where responsibility for this lies, and to ensure that any person who is found to bear responsibility is held accountable under the Italian criminal justice system,” he said, adding a request for privacy for the family.
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