Benito Mussolini's women
Benito Mussolini's women Benito Mussolini had two wives, several mistresses and dozens, possibly hundreds, of casual lovers during his lifetime. Here are the most important women in his life. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: Benito Mussolini's women Italian dictator Benito Mussolini Ida Dalser: Mussolini struck up a relationship with the beauty therapist in around 1909. They may have married in 1914, although no records survive. In 1915 she bore him his first child, which they named Benito Albino Mussolini. But the couple soon became estranged and Mussolini subsequently tried to expunge both Dalser and his son from his life, regarding them as an embarrassment, particularly after he married another woman, Rachele Guidi. Dalser was eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital and her son also ended up in an asylum, dying at the age of 26. Rachele Guidi: The deterioration of Mussolini's relationship with Ida Dalser was in part due to t...