Genetic tests produced in court by the defense would demonstrate that Flavia Borzone and Elettra Lamborghini are sisters.
The detail emerged in a hearing yesterday afternoon in court in Bologna, in the trial where Borzone herself, 35, and her mother Rosalba Colosimo, an opera singer, are accused of defamation against Tonino Lamborghini, son of the founder of the car company.
Borzone, from the pages of a magazine and in a TV program, had addressed Elettra Lamborghini, heiress of the Lamborghini dynasty, asking her to introduce her to "father Tonino", and therefore introducing herself as his half-sister, born in 1988 from a relationship with the entrepreneur Tonino Lamborghini.
This statement gave rise to a complaint presented to the police and the ongoing trial before judge Anna Fiocchi.
The lawyers of the two women, Sergio Culiersi, Gian Maria Romanello and Carlo Zauli, reports the local press, presented the results of a comparison, made by a Unife professor, between the DNA of their client and that of the singer and model.
The accused were then heard at the hearing: "I didn't want to offend anyone, I just wanted to know whose daughter I am", said Borzone.
The defenders explained that they had hired four private investigators and managed to acquire a straw with Elettra's saliva, taken from a smoothie.
During the trial, a DNA test had already been requested, but was rejected by the judge.
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