Maxi lawsuit worth 160 million against Fabrizio Corona: first hearing set in Milan

The first hearing of the maxi lawsuit against Fabrizio Corona filed in 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 hate" and defamation, worth 160 million, is set for 20 October, before the Civil Court of Milan and judge Stefania Novelli. euros in total, in particular for a January 26 episode of the former photographic agent's podcast 'Falsissimo'.

In a brief, filed in recent days by the lawyers of the promoters of the case, the lawyers Andrea Di Porto, Giulia Bongiorno, Salvatore Pino and Aldo Baldaccini, the requests for damages against the former 'king of the paparazzi' are confirmed. And he replies to the "absolute inconsistency of the arguments" of Corona's lawyers. Corona which, we read in the memorandum, "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".

The "softened account", we further read, "offered by the opposing defense has nothing to do, absolutely nothing, with the seriously damaging statements actually made during the episode". He passed off "as absolute truth gravely defamatory accusations and insinuations, built on nothing". And "outside here, on social media, on television and in clubs, he continues, with the same fury, the same verbal violence, the same arrogance, to spread the same invectives, accusations and insinuations". In a "theatrical tour", for example, he continued the "denigratory campaign against Mediaset and its most famous faces".

Any compensation, the Cologno Monzese group had already explained, will be used "to create a fund to cover the costs of legal assistance for victims of stalking, crimes falling under the so-called Red Code and all cyberbullying phenomena".