New checks on possible ongoing criminal proceedings against Minetti

These are the dark points of the new investigation that aims to shed light on the Minetti case. A "very delicate" investigation, as explained by sources of the same public prosecutor's office of the Court of Appeal of Milan, which is now investigating the case "without schemes", also thanks to the support of Interpol.

In the 13-page letter sent to the Quirinale to obtain clemency, Minetti's lawyers stress the health problems of her adopted son, whom they met in an orphanage in Uruguay, the country where her current partner, Giuseppe Cipriani, works.

In 2020, the two began the adoption process and the following year they would provide an operation for him in Boston, after two opinions against the operation by the San Raffaele in Milan and the Padua Hospital.

Here the first flaw emerges: the two facilities explained that they had never treated the child.

The objection of the lawyers is that these would only have been medical consultations (including those in Cleveland and Boston). This could justify the absence of the child's visits to the two Italian hospitals. But then what documentary support do the certifications in the annex refer to?

Moreover, the child would be an adopted child since 2023, after a three-year custody process. The newspaper Il Fatto, on the other hand, claims that Minetti filed a lawsuit for separation and loss of parental authority, won in 2023, in order to obtain the adoption.

In Italia, the Juvenile Court of Venice signed in 2024 a decree recognising adoption in our country, stating that 'the child was in a state of abandonment since birth, with definitive separation from his biological parents, who were declared to have lost parental responsibility'.

The biological mother's lawyer would later die in 2024 together with her husband, burnt to death in their house in Garzón by the explosion of a stove.

This, too, will be verified through Interpol, as will the notice issued by the local authorities on 14 April, for the tracing of the 29-year-old biological mother.

Finally, we come to the last medical check-up on 16 April 2025, when risks of recidivism and complications for the child emerged: hence the petition signed by Minetti's lawyers, according to which serving the sentence necessarily on Italia territory could prevent the mother from caring for the child. In this case too, the investigators will have to acquire medical records from overseas.

'If we encounter obstacles, we will take the next step for a rogatory,' explained the Pg Gaetano Brusa.

And among the investigations there are also those concerning the period when Minetti allegedly stayed in Ibiza. Moreover, should the request for pardon prove to be based on inconsistent and untrue elements, the documents will be forwarded to the public prosecutor's office for the opening of an investigation.

Finally, the shadows remain over the former dental hygienist's activities with her partner Giuseppe Cipriani, heir to the Harry's Bar dynasty that appears in the Epstein files.

His premises - according to many people - were considered a 'hunting ground' by film producer Harvey Weinstein.

According to the first review of the Court of Appeal, which then led to the positive opinion and the subsequent pardon, what Minetti's lawyers claimed is 'corroborated by documentation offered in production and are indicative of a radical distancing from the deviant past and a serious and concrete desire for social redemption'.

Journalist Thomas Mackinson, author of the investigation, however, reiterates: 'He had not changed his life, he was partying with his partner with these girls who came and went skipping immigration controls'. And he specifies: 'There are things that cannot be written', such as 'the frequentations of this villa'.