Italian excessive society has been left reeling after the marriage of a millionaire banker in Turin took a darkish flip, when the groom accused his bride of dishonest in a speech on the engagement celebration inflicting an enormous public spat between the pair.
Massimo Segre, 64, gathered friends at his mansion in Turin, to rejoice his upcoming nuptials to Cristina Seymandi, 47.
However as a substitute of the same old loving speech it’s possible you’ll count on to listen to a few bride-to-be, Massimo as a substitute accused his future spouse of dishonest, to the shock of Torinese excessive society.
Over a lavish banquet, he stated: ‘I need to give Cristina the liberty to like.
‘Particularly, to like one other individual; a notable lawyer, who she clearly cares about greater than me’.
‘Expensive Cristina, I understand how a lot you might be in love with him mentally and sexually,’ he added.
‘And I do know that earlier than him you had a relationship with an industrialist acquaintance.’
Shocked, Cristina seems across the room of some 150 friends for help as her fiancé shares painful images of his associate with one other man.
‘Don’t suppose it pleases me to seem like a cuckold in entrance of all of you,’ Massimo then tells his pals, clearly devastated by his associate’s alleged betrayal because the occasion goes silent.
‘Cristina is so good at telling her truths, that I couldn’t go away her alone to relate the explanation why I’m ending [our] life collectively tonight.
‘It’s a banal story of infidelity, even premarital. I’m so dissatisfied,’ he says. ‘I’m heartbroken.’
Massimo was seen studying a ready speech in Turin about his spouse’s alleged infidelities
A second of shock as Cristina seems round, accused of getting an affair with a lawyer
He then needs her properly, earlier than telling her to go to Mykonos together with her lover, as it’s already paid for.
As quickly because the speech completed, the lights dimmed and Massimo left the stage.
Italian media reported that friends have been aggravated at being ‘used’ as a part of the present.
Shocked friends stared on in silence uncertain what to suppose.
Because the engagement celebration, a video taken by one of many friends has gone viral, resulting in Cristina to grow to be the topic of loss of life threats.
In a letter to the director of the Zona Bianca TV information programme, Christina stated Massimo had dedicated an act of ‘psychological violence’ and had ‘meticulously deliberate his revenge’.
She added that she had a precious sapphire ring given to her by Massimo’s mom to mark their engagement which had ‘mysteriously disappeared’ 15 days earlier than the celebration.
Chatting with the Instances, Cristina’s adviser stated she will probably be taking authorized motion for ‘reputational harm’ towards he former fiance.
‘She has suffered very critical assaults on social media and threats from Italian residents. It has been traumatic,’ she stated.
Cristina Seymandi, an entrepreneur and politician
Massimo is pictured (proper) in a put up on Instagram
Her lawyer, Claudio Strata, added the banker had ‘deliberately humiliated her’.
‘The letter was learn out in entrance of dozens of individuals and it was captured in a video that was despatched to the newspapers. We don’t suppose this was improvised.’
Massimo categorically denies having revealed the video, not to mention having allowed it to be filmed.
He has since accused Cristina of stealing €700,00 (£598,000) from the couple’s joint account, however she says the cash was transferred along with his consent earlier than the connection ended.
Cristina snapped again after the occasion in an interview with La Stampa.
She stated that the baggage for Mykonos ‘have been already packed’ and urged onlookers to order judgement: ‘Inside each household, the dynamics are very advanced and obscure from the surface.’
She stated on the time she thought: ‘He’s gone loopy’.
‘He was very drained on the time,’ she stated.
‘I’m positive there’s somebody behind him who fanned the flames. Briefly, manipulated him.’
She additionally famous: ‘The work stands and I can’t afford to lose it.’
‘My skilled life requires me to react and stay lucid. I’ll take into consideration potential protections in civil and felony issues.’
Cristina summed up: ‘It was a farce, let’s face it. Critical issues are resolved one other method.’
‘Now I’ll think about whether or not to sue him,’ she stated.
Viviana Ferrero, former vice chairman of the Turin metropolis council and buddy of Cristina , described the put-down as a ‘sexist lynching’.
She said: ‘Two issues damage me, the top of a lovely love story and the lynching by which Cristina it’s been happening for days. A sexist, chauvinist, violent, horrendous lynching.
She went on: ‘Soiled laundry is washed within the household they usually, even when for a short while, have been a really particular household.
‘They usually may have been probably the most stunning {couples} there have been, as a result of they mixed so many qualities.
‘I don’t rejoice when the wealthy cry.’
Massimo’s mom, Franca Bruna Segre, was often known as a key determine in Italian finance, on the high of Banca Intermobiliare earlier than her son turned its financier.
The 64-year-old can be a director of Directa Sim, an organization dealing in on-line buying and selling, and has involvement in different sectors together with well being and media.
Complicating issues, Cristina is professionally tied into a few of these companies, listed on LinkedIn as a director of Directa Sim since February.
She additionally has been named CEO of Savio Thesan Spa, an organization she joined by taking up his shares by the lately established Hope SRL.
Cristina is the daughter of a famend accountant from Turin and has held roles in politics and enterprise over an eventful profession.
Cristina seems on as Massimo accuses her of getting an affair with an unnamed lawyer
In 2021, she backed the mayoral marketing campaign of centre-right candidate Paolo Damilano in Turin, who promised to make her deputy if he received.
Damilano misplaced within the run-off to centre-left candidate Stefano Lo Russo, and as a candidate for councillor Cristina was in a position to accumulate solely 318 ‘preferences’.
Segre and Cristina met across the time of the pandemic however had their wedding ceremony delayed twice because of this.
Lastly, the plans had been made and ‘round 200‘ friends invited to the garden overlooking the Mole Antonelliana, a landmark in Turin, to lastly announce the date in October.
However what began with normal because of the viewers for coming took a sudden flip when Segre took the possibility to out his associate.