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Nicole Minetti, international investigation into adoption and lifestyle for pardon request

The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office receives the first results of the foreign audits in the supplementary investigation into the Minetti case, pending a final opinion.

5 May 2026aggiornato alle ore 17:15

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Bisio jokes with Sorrentino about grace: a word I say under my breath
Minetti lawyers meet Pg Milan, further documents handed over

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The first results of the investigations underway, also in Uruguay and Spain, concerning the additional investigation to shed light on the grace obtained by Nicole Minetti, the former Lombardy councillor who must serve 3 years and 11 months in prison for exploitation of prostitution in the Ruby case and peculation in the Rimborsopoli trial.

Prosecutor General Francesca Nanni and Deputy Prosecutor Gaetano Brusa when they have a complete picture will give their opinion and if any 'hostile' elements emerge, they may revise their opinion.

From what we learn, the opinion of the Attorney General's Office on the issue, which has also become a political diatribe, is not expected this week.

The investigations are travelling on a double track:
1) on the one hand, further verification of the documentation linked to the adoption of a sick child in Uruguay; in particular, the Milan public prosecutor's office intends to ascertain the 'truthfulness' of the sentence of the court in Moldonado, Uruguay, which in 2023 certified the regularity of the procedure for the child's adoption:
2) on the other hand, the 'change of life' of the former Lombardy regional councillor. The general prosecutor's office had in fact expressed a positive opinion on the pardon granted to Nicole Minetti on the basis of a 'post-crime lifestyle' that 'has seen her constantly engaged in humanitarian activities with the establishment of a family unit and the adoption of a minor with serious health problems requiring significant care and attention'.

In addition, the interopol was instructed to certify the absence of any investigations or criminal proceedings initiated against Minetti by foreign judicial authorities.

The medical investigations and the foreign ruling of the Minor's Court of Venice that declared effective - with a document dated 19 July 2024 - the adoption of Minetti and Giuseppe Cipriani's son are entrusted to the Carabinieri, while the investigations abroad (Uruguay and Spain) are entrusted to Interpol.

Minetti is represented by lawyers Antonella Calcaterra and Emanuele Fisicaro.

Finally, the public prosecutor's office requested a series of investigations into the 'lifestyle' of Berlusconi's former dental hygienist, who ended up at the centre of the scandal on the 'olgettine' and the 'bunga bunga' at Arcore parties.

Minetti lawyers meet Pg Milan, handed over further documents

Nicole Minetti's lawyers, Fisicaro and Calcaterra, met this morning with Milan Attorney General Francesca Nanni and Deputy Prosecutor Gaetano Brusa.

During the meeting, the lawyers handed over to the magistrates additional documentation concerning the adoption of the child in Uruguay, in addition to what had already been made available to the investigators to clarify all the contours of the case.

The investigation launched within the Inau (Instituto del Niño y Adolescente del Uruguay) into the regularity of the adoption in favour of the Minetti-Cipriani couple has just begun and will will be concluded in weeks: the process involves several internal checks and analyses.

A source close to the Uruguayan adoption agency told Ansa.

Bisio jokes with Sorrentino at the Quirinale about La grazia: a word I say under my breath

"Knowing my reputation as a gaffeur, friends have advised me on subjects not to be addressed and words not to be said, and I promise I won't; but there is one I cannot not say, because it got 14 nominations, I'm referring to Paolo Sorrentino's film (La Grazia, ed)... I will say it in a whisper so as not to embarrass anyone'.

So joked Claudio Bisio, at the beginning of his speech as host of the presentation ceremony at the Quirinale of the candidates for the David di Donatello Awards 2026, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.

"There are those who suggest that that journalistic investigation (on the Minetti case, editor's note) was done by you to get people talking about your film,' Bisio added, continuing his boutade, addressing Sorrentino. 'I know it is not true. There are 'those who expect serious and severe speeches from me on the law of cinema, the criteria with which selective contributions are attributed,' noted the Milanese actor and director. 'I will not address these issues, I came here in peace.

Then, still on the edge of irony, he turned to Minister Giuli suggesting that he should 'forget about linear cuts, ministerial commissions, Italian identity' and instead make 'a simple, decisive law to make our films beautiful, let's make them last 10 minutes less'.

Finally, Bisio recalled that 'cinema is for all of us work but also a passion, we like to do it but also to see it in theatres, not on platforms. Our films must be seen there... and on the platforms maybe those of others'.