An Italian beautician hired a private investigator to collect saliva from a straw that an heiress to the Lamborghini fortune used in a bitter defamation battle in Italy.
Flavia Borzone, 35, is being sued for defamation by the son of the legendary hypercar maker's founder after she publicly claimed he slept with her mother and was her real father.
Borzone, a beautician from Naples, says Tonino Lamborghini, the son of Ferrucio Lamborghini, met her mother, the Neapolitan opera singer Rosalba Colosimo, in the late 1980s when she was 17 years old.
Borzone said Lamborghini stopped and offered Colosimo a ride while she was waiting for a bus in Milan.
The couple reportedly began a relationship, and in 1988 Borzone was born.
But after going public with her claims on television shows and gossip magazines in 2019, she faced an uphill battle to prove that she is indeed related to the Lamborghini family.
So much so that she hired private investigators to sift through the trash of singer Elettra Lamborghini, Tonino's daughter, to find a DNA sample for a genetic test that members of the Lamborghini family have consistently refused.
Flavia Borzone (pictured) says she is the daughter of Tonino Lamborghini, the son of Ferrucio Lamborghini
Private investigators stole a straw used by Elettra Lamborghini (pictured) to collect a DNA sample for genetic testing
Borzone says she is the love child of Tonino Lamborghini (pictured in 1998)
Borzone, a beautician from Naples, says Tonino Lamborghini, Ferrucio Lamborghini's son, met her mother, Neapolitan opera singer Rosalba Colosimo (pictured), in the late 1980s when she was 17
Investigators said they found a straw the 29-year-old socialite used to drink a cold coffee Frappuccino.
Experts at the University of Ferrara said the DNA sample from the straw, dubbed the “straw of a thousand secrets” by Italian media, proved a genetic match between Borzone and Lamborghini.
However, lawyers for the motoring family have claimed that the sample was taken without consent and was therefore “unlawful” and should not be considered appropriate evidence.
A lawyer for beautician Sergio Culiersi said: “We have provided evidence in court that she is not lying.”
He added that the DNA match “proved 100 percent that the women were sisters.”
“It was important for us to show that Flavia Borzone did not want to offend Mr. Lamborghini, she just wanted to be recognized.” [as his daughter)]. She lived for years without knowing who her father was.”
Experts at the University of Ferrara said the DNA sample from the straw, dubbed the “straw of a thousand secrets” by Italian media, proved a genetic match between Borzone (pictured) and Lamborghini
Lamborghini is known for building flashy hypercars for the super-rich
Borzone said Lamborghini stopped and offered Colosimo (pictured) a ride while she was waiting for a bus in Milan. The couple reportedly began a relationship, and in 1988 Borzone was born
Borzone told the court that in 2019 she drove from her home in Naples to Bologna to meet Tonino, hoping to meet the man she believes to be her father.
One of her lawyers, Gian Maria Romanello, said: “She had this problem for a long time.” She did not have the same physical characteristics as her alleged father.
“When he and her mother argued, she would often hear her mother say, “She’s not even your daughter.”
Borzone was secretly recording a conversation with the Lamborghini heir, who heads the €400 million luxury goods arm that makes products inspired by the brand, when he met him.
“During the interview, Mr Lamborghini admitted to having had a relationship with Colossimo,” one of her lawyers told the court.
Her mother said Borzone wasn't pursuing the case for financial reasons: “She just wants the truth.” “If it had only been about money, I would have done all this when Flavia was two years old.”
The trial was postponed until March.