File photo - Pope Benedict XVI's butler Paolo Gabriele (with the umbrella) with the pope in the Grotto of the Apparitions in Lourdes, France on September 13, 2008.Vatican police arrested Paolo Gabriele on May 25, 2012 at the Vatican, reportedly the pope's butler on allegations of having leaked confidential documents and letters from the pontiff's private study to newspapers .The Vatican, which has been embroiled for months in a scandal involving the leak of secret papers, said its police had detained Paolo Gabriele in possession of confidential documents. Paolo Gabriele, 54, the former butler of Benedict XVI, condemned by the Vatican court in 2012 but pardoned by Ratzinger a few months later, shortly before resigning, has died, it was announced today. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM