Lamborghini case, the testimonies: “Tonino knew he was Flavia Borzone’s father”

The woman claims to be the entrepreneur's daughter and for this reason she is on trial for defamation together with her mother Rosalba Colosimo

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BOLOGNA – The entrepreneur Tonino Lamborghini, heir of Ferruccio, founder of the car company of the same name, would have had “the precise and conscious, as well as expressed, knowledge of being the father” of Flavia Borzone , the 36-year-old who claims to be the entrepreneur’s daughter and who is therefore on trial for defamation in Bologna together with her mother Rosalba Colosimo. Lamborghini, who is the offended party in the proceedings, in fact denies being the woman’s father, but in the hearing held this morning before judge Anna Fiocchi the defenders of Borzone and Colosimo produced the minutes of a series of testimonies collected during the defense investigations, stating that from two of these testimonies – including that of Colosimo’s sister – it emerges that the entrepreneur would always have known that Flavia Borzone was his daughter and who, while refusing to recognize her, offered to support her financially.

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The lawyer Sergio Culiersi, one of the lawyers of the two accused – the others are Gian Maria Romanello and Carlo Zauli – asked the judge to be able to read some passages of the testimonies in the courtroom, defining them as “decisive to underline the precise and conscious knowledge , as well as expressed by Tonino Lamborghini that he was the father of the then minor Flavia Borzone”. Fiocchi, however, did not agree, underlining that “the documents have already been acquired with the consent of the parties” and that, consequently, reading them in the courtroom would have been useless.

THE DNA TEST

During the proceedings, in recent months, there was another controversial episode, that of the DNA test carried out by the defenders of the defendants on a straw with the saliva of Elettra Lamborghini, the second daughter by Tonino. The straw had been thrown in the garbage and recovered by private investigators appointed by the lawyers, and tests carried out by a professor at the University of Ferrara revealed a match between Elettra Lamborghini’s DNA and that of Flavia Borzone. > For his part, the entrepreneur and his lawyer Mauro Bernardini had immediately contested this evidence, claiming that Elettra’s DNA had been taken illegally. With today’s hearing, the investigation has effectively ended, even if the formal closure will only be declared at the next hearing, set for 3.30 pm on June 17 and in which the discussion is also scheduled. It remains to be seen whether the sentence will be pronounced as early as June 17, or whether a further hearing will be scheduled instead.