Influencer, journalist and TVpersonality Selvaggia Luccarelli on Tuesday published some ofthe threats she has received from people blaming her for thedeath of Giovanna Pedretti, the 59-year-old restaurateur who isbelieved to have committed suicide after being exposed forallegedly writing a fake review to get publicity for herpizzeria.
"I know where you live, watch your back because your hours arenumbered. I'll stab you when you least expect it. This is not ajoke," reads one of them, published by Lucarelli on Instagram.
"Nobody cares about this dead lady. Everyone is using her tofeast at their table," said Lucarelli on Tuesday in a separatepost on X, formerly Twitter.
"Politics. The colleagues who disliked me. The newspapersthemselves," added the left-leaning journalist whose big socialmedia following has been boosted by her being the most outspokenjudge on the Italian edition of Dancing with the Stars.
She also said that "for a while" she would only use Instagram.
Lucarelli has come under fire along with her partner, liberalcelebrity chef and influencer Lorenzo Biagiarelli, and statebroadcaster Rai's left-leaning Rai3 news channel Tg3, forcreating the online backlash that allegedly drove Pedretti toher death by exposing her claim that she had barred a customerover his complaint he had been seated next to a gay couple and aboy in a wheelchair to be false.
Investigators have opened a probe into instigation to suicidewithout suspects in order to establish the true origin of theallegedly fake review post.
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