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For years, the press has polished Alberto Genovese, a wealthy Italian internet entrepreneur, as a startup wizard, digital predator, now suspected by police of drinking a cocaine party until he passed out and detained a young woman during 20 hours, and presumably not for the first time.
Born in Naples, Genovese, now 43, has lived in Milan for 20 years. After graduating from college, he started working for consulting firm McKinsey, and in 2007 he founded the insurance price comparison site, now called Facile.it, which Silvio Berlusconi also joined. In 2014, Genovese sold the company to London-based Oakley Capital for € 100 million. He then created a car helmet sales company called Prima Assicurazioni, in which Goldman Sachs and Blackstone invested 100 million euros in 2018. In 2019, he founded his used car buying and selling site, Brumbrum.it, but also manages a host broker and other sites.
The man became a celebrated star of the Italian business press, was regularly asked about his creed, his various initiatives and was a well-known speaker at conferences on the digital economy. He did not speak of the severe cocaine addiction that emerged behind the fatigue in interviews and lectures, only referring to her now when confronted with what he did on the night of October 10.
Genovese at an entrepreneurship conference in 2012, he claimed, was not yet a drug addict at the time.
Genovese had a serious house party that night. The businessman’s attic is in Milan, on the sixth floor of a downtown block, he himself only referred to it as Terrazza Sentimento. The over 200 square meter multi-storey apartment has a swimming pool with a terrace overlooking the Duomo of Milan.
Noisy parties were common at the Terrazza Sentimento for years, and Genovese made his neighbors increasingly nervous, who also regularly called the police due to disturbed silence. It was that those who went to the party were already held by porters at the entrance of the condominium, and even absurdly, the neighbors of the house could reach their homes for security. Pictures of the parties generally also appeared on Instagram stories submitted by participants. However, photos of what happened on the night of October 10 could not be included in the village media, as a porter asked his guests for their mobile phone upon arrival. The party started in the afternoon and lasted until dawn the next day, due to the deafening music, the neighbors called the police twice, who turned down the music and then left.
At around 9 p.m., two young women arrived, one of whom was the later victim. It is not clear from press reports who invited them, but it is clear that the later victim knew of Genovese’s friend, Daniele Leali. One of the victim’s lawyers said that the woman had already been invited to two previous parties that seemed like a completely normal party, the appeal of which was reinforced by celebrities, a TV chef, a well-known DJ. And it turned out there was a lot of cocaine that the host made available to his guests. In any case, the 18-year-old woman and her lawyer, recently graduated from high school, claim that the woman was invited to the party not for money, as an escort, and was never a prostitute.
The woman later said that she was talking and dancing with the others early in the evening. In the middle of the room, cocaine striped trays were displayed for guests and there was another drug called 2CB. From time to time he also consumed it, the woman confessed, and had been with her until then. Then at 11:30 the host invited the woman to the private section of the apartment, he even placed a bodyguard in front of the door, she had to make sure that no one disturbed what was happening inside. According to witnesses at previous parties questioned by the police, Genovese used to select a woman among the guests whom he had called aside on the pretext that they could try an even better drug in the separation.
The victim said he was almost certain that the man had given him some other drug online instead of cocaine, which had rendered him completely unconscious. From then on, the next day until half past five in the morning, things completely converged, he just remembers in his strokes that his wrists and ankles were handcuffed, and the upper arms were also tied to the upper part of the body.
Investigators say the 18-year-old, who almost behaves like a rag doll under the influence of the drug, was repeatedly raped and abused by cocainized Genovese behind closed doors.
The wealthy businessman installed a video camera in his bedroom, which he tried to erase before the police seized it. However, investigators managed to recover the footage, the scenes of which are a Republic They were in line with what the victim said. Police are now analyzing hundreds of hours of video footage over the past six months to see if they have led to more rapes at the home.
The victim said she woke up next to the man at 5:30 the next afternoon and that the sheet was covered in blood. After retrieving his phone, he told a girlfriend that he was in danger. Only at half past ten at night, half naked, in half a pair of shoes, he managed to escape from the apartment, he was waiting for his friend downstairs, they waved a police car, which took him to the hospital. His entire body was covered in wounds and doctors gave him at least 25 days to heal. It is also reported in the Italian press that Genovese, as soon as he learned that the woman had fled the apartment, threw a derogatory one hundred euro note out the window.
The raped young woman did not face the public, but in a voice message sent, the Channel 5 channel on a show directed by Barbara D’Urso. He said that he was scared to death, that he never thought these terraced parties would pose a danger. It also affected him a lot, he said that many people are to blame for what happened, the attacks he receives in this way are equivalent to other violence.
So the victim of the case is not, but a bodyguard installed in front of Genovese’s room, but a Simone Bonino stood in front of the news cameras and hacked the media everywhere and said the music was so loud that he couldn’t hear anything that was happening inside, anyway. He knew that larger values were kept inside, so he needed to stand in front of the door. When asked why the door was not simply closed at the time, he defended himself by saying it was the customer’s demand. He also claimed that it was shocking for him to find out what was really going on inside. The man admitted that he got in the way of the raped girl’s girlfriend when she was anxiously looking for her, and she also advised the girlfriend to call the girl on the phone. But he claims that since he was not working at the entrance, he did not know that everyone had to hand over their cell phones there.
Genovese talks to his bodyguard
In the days after the woman’s report, Genovés had been monitored by the police and discovered that she had applied for a passport, and during a wiretapped phone conversation, she told her mother that she was going to Amsterdam and that from there she wanted to travel to South America. . To avoid this, the contractor was arrested on November 7 on suspicion of sexual violence, violation of personal freedom and serious abuse. A few days later, his friend, Daniele Leali, who was allegedly involved in the organization of the party of the thirties, traveled to the island of Bali (claiming that he was only on business, as he had always been in November) and has since spoken with the Italian press, denying it would transport the drug to the Genoese festivals.
Genoves was interrogated by investigators for four hours when he was captured, and apparently did not know what he was doing. “If I did, it is because of the drug,” he defended himself to the police, according to Repubblica. And at his court hearing, he talked about “it was not nice what I did if I did”, and argued that he has been addicted to cocaine for four years, unable to control himself, needs treatment.
Milan’s investigating prosecutor, Tommaso Perna, put it another way: he justified Genovese’s preventive detention on the grounds that the man was extremely antisocial and despised the value of human life, especially women. He is a dangerous personality who is unable to control his own sexual instincts and assaults.
Investigating prosecutors are now listening to additional witnesses, in addition to justifying the violence and detention, also investigating if there was any system through which the girls were recruited for the party and also who delivered so much drugs there.
Another 23-year-old woman has already denounced them, claiming that she suffered similar violence at Genovese’s house in Ibiza in July, known as Villa Lolita, and that the man’s girlfriend was even present here. According to the woman, the man could have given him a drug that rendered him completely unconscious, he was ill, accompanied him to a room, then to a movie break, then upon awakening, memory loss and total suspicion (torn clothing , pain in parts of the body, bruises) was raped.
And a third woman recounted how an increasingly drunk millionaire became dangerously aggressive at a house party in Ibiza who, upon learning that she had called her boyfriend on the phone for help, simply pushed her out of the apartment without taking his personal belongings. would. “I did not have the courage to denounce him because I could not carry out the violence. But I know that it is important to do so. I suggest to everyone that they denounce it because people like that should not exist,” he said. Raidue Ore channel 14.
It has already become clear to police officers from testimony that Genovese has been shooting hundreds of young women who were turning in his bed for the past two years. He even bragged about these connections as trophies for his friends afterward, posting the recordings in group chats. It’s like exchanging soccer cards, he said. Messenger Service one of his journalists. The seized phones and tablets also contain 400 gigabytes of images and footage, including what he did on October 10 about the defenseless woman lying in his bed.
In recent days, an investigation has been launched into Genovese’s girlfriend – or, according to some findings, his ex-girlfriend – also Sarah B., 25, for sexual violence and drug trafficking. His role is being investigated due to the Ibiza case, the party at the house on October 10 was not present.
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