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Gianluca Vacchi. Photo: Instagram.
The Italian businessman Gianluca Vacchi, followed by millions of people around the world on social networks, faces to a legal battle with three former employees, including an assistant who accuses him of forcing her to appear in his videos.
Vacchi (Bologna, 1967) premiered On May 25, a documentary about his life on Amazon Prime Video in which he narrates his life beyond his life. What he shows on social media, where he is quite a phenomenon with 22.2 million followers on Instagram, 21.5 on Tiktok and 3 on Facebook.
In recent days, he is at the center of media attention due to the legal battle he is having with three of his former collaborators, while asking that the times of justice be respected.
“Regarding the news that has appeared in the media these days, I have not made any statement nor do I intend to do so: there are, in fact, ongoing proceedings and it is only up to the judges to rule on the matter.” about it,” he said in a statement released by the Ansa agency.
your decision to report the publication of “numerous false and seriously offensive statements” about which “no complaint has ever been filed” and that “they do not constitute the object of the aforementioned legal proceedings”.
“Therefore I have ordered my lawyers to protect me in all competent venues”, the businessman finishes.
Vacchi became famous for exhibiting his elevated lifestyle in networks, dancing in his villas, on private planes or in paradisiacal places, accompanied by his partner, the Venezuelan model Sharon Fonseca, with whom he has had his daughter, Blu Jerusalema.
But now she must defend herself against the accusations made against her by three former domestic assistants, who reproach her with eternal work schedules and other alleged irregularities.
One of them, the Filipina Laluna Maricris Bantugon, who worked for him between 2017 and 2020, he has denounced Vacchi for not “treating her right” and for “not respecting their labor rights,” herself in a recent interview with the newspaper “La Repubblica”.
Bantugon asks to be paid 70,000 euros for extraordinary and unpaid settlements and accuses da Vacchi of making her work “more than 20 hours a day” and “causing you stress” for the recording of his famous videos, in which he also dances with his employees.
“In some cases we had to participate in the first person in his videos even though we didn’t want to. We had to appear dressed in the assistant’s uniform”, he assured. to the newspaper.
The same outlet reports that Vacchi has another legal battle with two other collaborators who worked for him for more than two decades, and who have challenged their dismissal before the Bologna Public Prosecutor’s Office.