Although a minor player, Volpe has long been held by numerous fans to be among the top contenders for most villainous Bond Girl.
Played by the luscious Luciana Paluzzi in the 1965 Thunderball, Volpe finds work as a seasoned assassin working for the terrorist organisation SPECTRE.
Bond encounters the deadly Volpe after she kills fellow villain Count Lippe (who himself failed in his attempt at assassinating Bond). She tries to succeed where Lippe failed and, after seducing Bond, reveals her true intent.
How she meets her end
Bond manages to escape only to have Volpe catch up with him at the rather amusingly named Kiss Kiss Club. The two begin to dance and, even as one of Volpe's henchmen takes aim and fires, Bond quickly swerves out of the way so Volpe takes the bullet instead, leading to years of unsettled debate among fans on whether her death was accidental or engineered by Bond.
Besides being strikingly beautiful, Volpe is also remembered for her unusual taste in dispatching her victims (she kills Count Lippe with the aid of a motorcycle armed with missiles).
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