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Allegra Brosco was not the sort of woman who had ever imagined herself married to a convict. Still, when Dana Giacchetto suddenly popped the question last August, during her weekly jailhouse visit, Brosco pondered for just a few minutes before saying yes.

It was, she admits, an inauspicious debut to a lifelong commitment, but in her retelling it seems dangerous and romantic – like a scene from a Brontë novel. “There was a guard who was watching to make sure we didn’t get too close,” she remembers. “And all around us these sad, tired people. I didn’t want to get tossed out, so we just pressed our foreheads together and cried.” When he proposed, they had been a couple for eleven months.

During that time, Giacchetto, the manic, starstruck money manager, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud. Due to be sentenced on January 17, he faces 46 to 57 months in jail. The couple initially resolved to marry in prison, a plan they’ve since reconsidered. “Both our parents were against it,” Brosco explains. “And we’ve caused them enough pain already.”

There has been, amid the torrent of press documenting the fall of Dana Giacchetto, little mention of Allegra Brosco, the 32-year-old woman who had the closest view of his spectacular flameout and stuck around

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