Mediaset and Berlusconi's maxi lawsuit against Corona begins, he 'I'm not afraid'

"I take responsibility for everything I said, I'm not afraid." Fabrizio Corona stated this in front of reporters as he left the room of the first hearing, before the Civil Court of Milan, of the maxi lawsuit brought against him last February by the Mediaset group, by Pier Silvio and Marina Berlusconi, by Maria De Filippi, Silvia Toffanin, Gerry Scotti, Ilary Blasi and Samira Lui, with a request for reputational and financial damages, for a "campaign of hatred" and defamation, from 160 million euros in total, in particular for a January 26 episode of the former photo agent's podcast 'Falsissimo'.

Today the lawyers of the group, the leaders and the hosts (not present in the courtroom), the lawyers Andrea Di Porto, Giulia Bongiorno and Salvatore Pino, discussed for about an hour, in front of judge Stefania Novelli of the first civil section, together with the lawyers of the former photographer of the VIPs and of the Atena company, the lawyers Piergiorgio Molinari, Umberto Ilardo and Laura Bertani. The latter, essentially, have asked not to admit a series of evidence requested by the other party and in the next few days the judge will file an order with which she will express her opinion on the evidence. In the case of admission, the civil proceedings will continue with further hearings, otherwise a decision will be reached immediately.

In a brief, filed in recent weeks by the lawyers of the promoters of the case, the requests for damages against the former "king of the paparazzi" were confirmed. Corona, the lawyers wrote, "deliberately places itself outside of any regulated context, exploiting the regulatory gaps connected to the new means of communication, to try to operate 'legibus solutus', free from any ethical and deontological rules".