Italian Prime Minister Meloni leaves partner after yet another public humiliation
Italian politician Andrea Giambruno often made headlines for inappropriate behavior and controversial positions. The final straw was an audio recording in which he invites female colleagues for group sex.
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October 20, 2023 at 11:08 am
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is leaving her partner, Andrea Giambruno. She announced this on Friday . Giambruno, a television journalist for the media group of the late Silvio Berlusconi, has been a headache for Meloni in recent years: he regularly appeared in the news with lewd comments, controversial positions and outspoken television appearances. The final straw was an audio recording published Thursday in which Giambruno brags about having an affair and tells female colleagues they can work for him if they have group sex with him.

Meloni wrote on Facebook that “our paths have been diverging for some time, and the time has come to acknowledge that.” The two have a seven-year-old daughter together. This is the latest scandal that Giambruno has talked himself into, but certainly not the only one.

In August, two gang rapes were the talk of the town, one in Sicily and the other in a deprived area of ??Naples. One of the two cases involved a nineteen-year-old woman who was deliberately drunk during a night out, after which a group of young men raped her. Meloni promised strict measures against the perpetrators. Not long afterwards, her partner Giambruno undermined that point on television when he said, among other things: "Of course it is your right to get drunk when you go out, but if you don't get drunk, you don't run the risk of meeting the wolf." to run roughshod over.” The journalist was criticized by the Italian opposition and on social media, which also damaged Meloni.