US publishing house CEO Adrienne Vaughan dies in boat accident off Italian coast

Adrienne Vaughan, the President of Bloomsbury Publishing’s US branch, died in a boat crash off the coast of Italy. While her children were unharmed, the husband suffered a shoulder injury.

Vaughan’s boat collided with a tourist sailboat, which was hosting nearly 70 people for a wedding reception at the time. No one on the sailboat was injured.

The 45-year-old was pulled from the water but died before reaching the hospital.

Blood samples were taken from the skipper to determine alcohol and drug levels. But Salerno Chief Prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli indicated that for now, the results were inconclusive.

“The results are being evaluated by a consultant of the prosecutor's office since the data per se aren't necessarily significant,'' Borrelli said.

He added that more evaluation was needed to determine "the incidence of the levels on the ability of the subject” to pilot the boat.

With AP Inputs