Genetic tests presented in court by the defense would show that Flavia Borzone and Elettra Lamborghini are sisters. The detail came to light yesterday afternoon at a court hearing in Bologna in which Borzone herself, 35, and her mother Rosalba Colosimo, an opera singer, are accused of defaming Tonino Lamborghini, son of the car company's founder.
Borzone had addressed Elettra Lamborghini, heir to the Lamborghini dynasty, in the pages of a magazine and in a television program, asking her to introduce her to “Father Tonino”, and therefore introduced himself as his half-sister, born in 1988, in a relationship with the entrepreneur Tonino Lamborghini. This statement led to a police report and the ongoing proceedings before Judge Anna Fiocchi.
The two women's lawyers, Sergio Culiersi, Gian Maria Romanello and Carlo Zauli, reported to the local press, presenting the results of a comparison carried out by a Unife professor between their client's DNA and that of the singer and model. At the hearing, the defendants were then heard: “I didn’t want to offend anyone, I just wanted to know whose daughter I was,” said Borzone. Defense attorneys said they hired four private investigators and managed to obtain a straw containing Elettra's saliva from a smoothie.
A DNA test had already been requested during the trial, but was rejected by the judge.
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