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Many people say: “We are tired of talking always about Berlusconi, we have more important things to talk about”. And you are right because the TV news, the newspapers,
“La Repubblica” from 21/10/2013. Contrary to what is stated in the article of Sala, I’ve never met Emidio Fede.
I don’t understand why the most important argument that I raised when denounced myself was ignored. Not a single article was written in order to expand the fact that while Silvio Berlusconi was a Prime Minister, he regularly interfered in public institutions and his companies, in a complete conflict of interests, exploiting human and economic resources for personal purposes or to please one of his “female friends”:
“Corriere della Sera” from 19/10/2013. Iossa reports the accusations of Paolo Pirovano from the union of the journalists, to Michele Santoro.
Nobody denied my statements: Masi, Bondi, Galan,Carfagna, Bergamini, Giro, Scheri, Berlusconi himself: nobody. Some of these persons were even present to the awarding of “Goodbye Mama” in Venice, releasing pompous statements on my artistic abilities and the qualities of my film. Instead of this, today they attack me without any shame, denying everything then stated. What changed? Why didn’t even one journalist ask these persons for an explanation?
“Il Messaggero” from 19/10/2013. Guarnieri talks about my declarations and “forgets” the 5 years of success I’ve had in Rai.
The only thing I learn from the newspapers is about an alleged request of 10 million euro on behalf of Francesca Pascale. The addressees: Michelle Bonev, Michele Santoro, Francesca Fagnani, Servizio Pubblico, La7 and its publisherUrbano Cairo. Yet I confirm that I have not received any note, whether a formal or an informal one, concerning legal actions against me. Just in case, I reaffirm one more time that I am willing to uphold the truth even before the magistrates, like I already did in Servizio Pubblico and in my blog.
“Corriere della Sera” from 19/10/2013. According to Roncone, the bunga-bunga is over thanks to Pascale, but it isn’t so.
Is there really no journalist interested in the matter of how a Country was led to austerity in the services and the consumption by one compromised man and one 29 years old girl who was not elected and has no merits or title. It is very disturbing that articles are published every day with the intention to assign a fake credibility to Silvio Berlusconi through the media construction of the image of his “fiancée”. It almost seems like a configured disturbing scenario in which a certain Silvio Berlusconi is under house arrest in Arcore and a certain Francesca Pascale directs politics and government in Palazzo Grazioli. Attempts have been made by all means to distract the public opinion with futile things: dogs, green beans, text messages… still, is there anyone who would turn on the spotlights upon the connections between politics and entertainment after my public statements?
“Il Giornale” from 20/10/2013. I don’t even comment the insults and the lies of Giuliano Ferrara.
It’s enough to take a look at what the newspapers are occupied with in this period:
a) the change of the residence of Francesca Pascale, as if this would be enough to certify a emotional relationship which in fact is well-known to be fake.
b) the real name of the dog Dudù, Gennaro, that was “revealed” by Maria Vittoria Brambilla (a real and actual scoop of a national interest!)
c) the “magical circle” of Francesca Pascale and her dubious dinners with politicians, ministers, institution representatives: nobody is asking how is she entitled to organize these dinners and what are the blackmails standing behind
d) the halved maintenance of Veronica Lario as if this personal fact could be considered as a political victory of the Berlusconi’s right over the left!
e) the phantom boyfriend/fiancé of Francesca Pascale (that strangely the newspapers report without a name or a face). He even accuses her in betrayal in order to be more credible! Things already seen. Since Francesca was presented as the official girlfriend/fiancée of Silvio Berlusconi, there are books written on her life, hundreds of articles, interviews… but strangely there was no trace of any previous boyfriend.
“Il Mattino” from 23/10/2013. Capone gives credit to the fake fiancé of Francesca Pascale.
It is clear that the problem is not the sexual orientation of Francesca Pascale, nor the moral depravity of Silvio Berlusconi, but the fact that they are joking with millions of people in a systematic way, drawing a little family picture that doesn’t exist. It is supposed to be believed that the bunga-bunga, of which the whole world talked these years, is over: the truth is that it is not over. It is supposed to be believed that Francesca Pascale “cleaned” the residences of the ex-Cavaliere but the truth is that she is only one of the many who visited Silvio Berlusconi since the times of the “olgettine” (certain girls related to Berlusconi, who live on Olgettina street, Milan) and their “relationship” is based on blackmailing and deceptions. A plot that inevitably impacts the politics and the institutions: this is what the newspapers should talk about today. Questions of such relevance cannot be reduced to a women’s litigation that transforms them into a vulgar gossip.
“Corriere della Sera” from 21/10/2013. According to Pierluigi Battista, the victim is Berlusconi and not our country.
I consider myself as a survivor in this system. I talk about things that I saw and lived through personally. People like me who are ready to denounce all this, must not be massacred, because they are the only hope that things could change. The fact that I talked demonstrates that this system is not as strong as it seems to be. I’ve met many compromised people who are devouring themselves internally because they can’t go back, because they are afraid of being negatively judged by the society. I am here for them as well now. I am not afraid of the mud they’ll throw at me because I speak the truth and I have nothing to hide. The arguments they use to discredit me are futile and without base.
“Libero” from 19/10/2013. Maurizio Belpietro publishes my messages partially to manipulate them.
“Il Tempo” from 19/10/2013. Sallusti confirms to Solimene for being a part of the mud machine.
They pulled out statements from my mother, who claimed three years ago after the releasing of my film-denunciation “Goodbye Mama” that I didn’t tell the truth regarding the violence and the abuse suffered by me and my sister during our childhoods. I repeat for the nth time that my mother was convicted for assault by the judge in Varna, Bulgaria, and she was ordered to keep a 100 meters distance from my sister. I narrated the violence I suffered and was caused by her in my book“Alberi senza radici” (“Trees without roots”). I find it grotesque to use the statements of a violent person like my mother in order to pursue a further violence towards me. It’s like asking an acclaimed rapist if his victim tells lies. Let’s stop this!
And it’s not over here! Yesterday I read an article whereallegations were made on an apartment owned by Toriani, Real Estates Company and Partecipazioni, single-member Ltd. of which I was an only member holding the bare ownership of the share. Of this share, I sold the bare property to a third party and there was not, as the article ignorantly tries to convince, a right of first refusal in relation to other members because there weren’t other members except for me. All the allegations on the sale of the company share and the money, presumed to be sent and not entered the company’s coffer, are deceptions, fruit of bad faith and represent the nth attempt to discredit my person. But these allegations can be demolished easily by the legal documents deposited in the competent offices.
“La Repubblica” from 17/10/2013. Ciriaco describes the “magical circle” of Francesca Pascale.
Many people ask me why did I decide to talk just now, why did I “bite the hand that feeds me” (“spit in the dish I ate from”)? I simply answer that before, I was afraid, I was compromised and I didn’t want to lose it all. It would have been much more convenient for me to go ahead, rather to say the truth. There is no end for the one who remains in the system, there is always a way out to be found, a “benefactor” who is ready to help a beautiful girl. Popularity is not gained by denouncing a corrupted system that brings wealth and power to thousands of people. A well organized equilibrium exists for decades; it would be crazy to think that it could be destroyed. The corruption is rooted everywhere, this is why our Country is in austerity.
“Il Mattino” from 19/10/2013. According to Ajello, Francesca Pascale is the rising star of the decline of the “berlusconism”.
I was born in Bulgaria but I’ve lived in Italy for the last 23 years and I am an Italian citizen since 1998. My home is here and I intend to stay.My achievements in television, documented also in my blog, are a fact and nobody can deny what I managed to attain by my talent and my preparation. Unfortunately in Italy, like in any other part of the world, the talent is not enough, it also takes recommendations, otherwise you wouldn’t get too far. In the beginning of my career I tried to make my way only by my talent, but soon they made me understand that it was not possible. In the corrupted system it works like this: first you have to compromise yourself in order to become one of them and then they’ll give you what you want. It’s a vicious circle that is very hard to get out of because this would mean that you are willing to die. The massacre through the media is the most efficient weapon in such cases: to throw mud and discredit, inventing deceptions regarding the person who is concerned or his dear ones. It doesn’t matter that these are deceptions, what is important is to annihilate the “traitor” on duty in order to protect the system.
The Law is becoming slower while the communication today is extremely fast: without any contradiction and without deepening, it can wash the brains of many people in short time. I know this and I experience it now but I have no intention to let go because I feel strong in the truth. I paid a high price for the compromises I’ve done: I lost myself, my values, my youth. Now I ask myself how could I have harmed myself like this? I the one who always believed in values of life. It seems to me like I have woken up after a long state of coma and I have forgotten who I was. I have nothing else to do but to start from myself. My name is Dragomira Boneva Ianeva, known by my stage name Michelle Bonev and I am a free woman. I don’t possess anything but the truth. And on this base I will rebuild my life.
I don’t understand why the most important argument that I raised when denounced myself was ignored. Not a single article was written in order to expand the fact that while Silvio Berlusconi was a Prime Minister, he regularly interfered in public institutions and his companies, in a complete conflict of interests, exploiting human and economic resources for personal purposes or to please one of his “female friends”:
“Corriere della Sera” from 19/10/2013. Iossa reports the accusations of Paolo Pirovano from the union of the journalists, to Michele Santoro.
Nobody denied my statements: Masi, Bondi, Galan,Carfagna, Bergamini, Giro, Scheri, Berlusconi himself: nobody. Some of these persons were even present to the awarding of “Goodbye Mama” in Venice, releasing pompous statements on my artistic abilities and the qualities of my film. Instead of this, today they attack me without any shame, denying everything then stated. What changed? Why didn’t even one journalist ask these persons for an explanation?
“Il Messaggero” from 19/10/2013. Guarnieri talks about my declarations and “forgets” the 5 years of success I’ve had in Rai.
The only thing I learn from the newspapers is about an alleged request of 10 million euro on behalf of Francesca Pascale. The addressees: Michelle Bonev, Michele Santoro, Francesca Fagnani, Servizio Pubblico, La7 and its publisherUrbano Cairo. Yet I confirm that I have not received any note, whether a formal or an informal one, concerning legal actions against me. Just in case, I reaffirm one more time that I am willing to uphold the truth even before the magistrates, like I already did in Servizio Pubblico and in my blog.
“Corriere della Sera” from 19/10/2013. According to Roncone, the bunga-bunga is over thanks to Pascale, but it isn’t so.
Is there really no journalist interested in the matter of how a Country was led to austerity in the services and the consumption by one compromised man and one 29 years old girl who was not elected and has no merits or title. It is very disturbing that articles are published every day with the intention to assign a fake credibility to Silvio Berlusconi through the media construction of the image of his “fiancée”. It almost seems like a configured disturbing scenario in which a certain Silvio Berlusconi is under house arrest in Arcore and a certain Francesca Pascale directs politics and government in Palazzo Grazioli. Attempts have been made by all means to distract the public opinion with futile things: dogs, green beans, text messages… still, is there anyone who would turn on the spotlights upon the connections between politics and entertainment after my public statements?
“Il Giornale” from 20/10/2013. I don’t even comment the insults and the lies of Giuliano Ferrara.
It’s enough to take a look at what the newspapers are occupied with in this period:
a) the change of the residence of Francesca Pascale, as if this would be enough to certify a emotional relationship which in fact is well-known to be fake.
b) the real name of the dog Dudù, Gennaro, that was “revealed” by Maria Vittoria Brambilla (a real and actual scoop of a national interest!)
c) the “magical circle” of Francesca Pascale and her dubious dinners with politicians, ministers, institution representatives: nobody is asking how is she entitled to organize these dinners and what are the blackmails standing behind
d) the halved maintenance of Veronica Lario as if this personal fact could be considered as a political victory of the Berlusconi’s right over the left!
e) the phantom boyfriend/fiancé of Francesca Pascale (that strangely the newspapers report without a name or a face). He even accuses her in betrayal in order to be more credible! Things already seen. Since Francesca was presented as the official girlfriend/fiancée of Silvio Berlusconi, there are books written on her life, hundreds of articles, interviews… but strangely there was no trace of any previous boyfriend.
“Il Mattino” from 23/10/2013. Capone gives credit to the fake fiancé of Francesca Pascale.
It is clear that the problem is not the sexual orientation of Francesca Pascale, nor the moral depravity of Silvio Berlusconi, but the fact that they are joking with millions of people in a systematic way, drawing a little family picture that doesn’t exist. It is supposed to be believed that the bunga-bunga, of which the whole world talked these years, is over: the truth is that it is not over. It is supposed to be believed that Francesca Pascale “cleaned” the residences of the ex-Cavaliere but the truth is that she is only one of the many who visited Silvio Berlusconi since the times of the “olgettine” (certain girls related to Berlusconi, who live on Olgettina street, Milan) and their “relationship” is based on blackmailing and deceptions. A plot that inevitably impacts the politics and the institutions: this is what the newspapers should talk about today. Questions of such relevance cannot be reduced to a women’s litigation that transforms them into a vulgar gossip.
“Corriere della Sera” from 21/10/2013. According to Pierluigi Battista, the victim is Berlusconi and not our country.
I consider myself as a survivor in this system. I talk about things that I saw and lived through personally. People like me who are ready to denounce all this, must not be massacred, because they are the only hope that things could change. The fact that I talked demonstrates that this system is not as strong as it seems to be. I’ve met many compromised people who are devouring themselves internally because they can’t go back, because they are afraid of being negatively judged by the society. I am here for them as well now. I am not afraid of the mud they’ll throw at me because I speak the truth and I have nothing to hide. The arguments they use to discredit me are futile and without base.
“Libero” from 19/10/2013. Maurizio Belpietro publishes my messages partially to manipulate them.
“Il Tempo” from 19/10/2013. Sallusti confirms to Solimene for being a part of the mud machine.
They pulled out statements from my mother, who claimed three years ago after the releasing of my film-denunciation “Goodbye Mama” that I didn’t tell the truth regarding the violence and the abuse suffered by me and my sister during our childhoods. I repeat for the nth time that my mother was convicted for assault by the judge in Varna, Bulgaria, and she was ordered to keep a 100 meters distance from my sister. I narrated the violence I suffered and was caused by her in my book“Alberi senza radici” (“Trees without roots”). I find it grotesque to use the statements of a violent person like my mother in order to pursue a further violence towards me. It’s like asking an acclaimed rapist if his victim tells lies. Let’s stop this!
And it’s not over here! Yesterday I read an article whereallegations were made on an apartment owned by Toriani, Real Estates Company and Partecipazioni, single-member Ltd. of which I was an only member holding the bare ownership of the share. Of this share, I sold the bare property to a third party and there was not, as the article ignorantly tries to convince, a right of first refusal in relation to other members because there weren’t other members except for me. All the allegations on the sale of the company share and the money, presumed to be sent and not entered the company’s coffer, are deceptions, fruit of bad faith and represent the nth attempt to discredit my person. But these allegations can be demolished easily by the legal documents deposited in the competent offices.
It was not easy for me to write these lines but it was even harder to look inside of me with honesty and admit that the compromises I accepted devoured me. I had arrived to the point where I could no longer recognize what was right and what was wrong. In the last 10 years l lived in a world that took away everything from me: my dreams, my ideals, my dignity. The corrupted system of money and power marked my life. I was wrong to choose the way that I thought was easier but revealed itself as devastating for me: I deluded myself into being happy. I was a “friend” of the powerful, engaged to rich men, I had everything I desired: success, money, clothes, jewels… But at what price? I know that the past can’t be undone but I also know that the present is in our hands and the future depends on the choices we make now. They always told me: “The world is like this, my dear, learn to navigate.” And so I navigated, oh… of course I navigated… I went so far that I was no longer aware of the reality.
I don’t want to be the woman from the scarlet letter anymore, nor be the victim; I want to change my life by telling you my story because this is the story of the world. We all believe in certain principles and certain rules, we delight each other with beautiful words like justice, love, freedom, but as soon we feel endangered, we are ready to betray and trample on anyone. We are so convinced that the end justifies the means that we’ve lost our identity. “But what can I do?” I used to tell myself. In this world if you don’t belong to a group, an organization or a political color, you don’t go ahead. The competence, the talent are not enough, working for 18 hours per day is not enough, however it requires friends in high places. We all know it works like this and we accepted this system to the point that being recommended has become a normal thing. What a world have we built?
I look around me and I see desperate people who don’t know what to feed their own children with and then I see the other people who wallow in wealth and luxury, joking with the millions from the weekly press covers with stories of dubious relationships.Like “the love story” of Francesca Pascale and Silvio Berlusconi. This is a big staging because Francesca is a lesbian and I was more than a friend to her. Silvio had decided to announce their engagement publicly only to continue having fun with her and her female “friends”, and to avoid being judged by the society. He thought he calculated it well but he found himself with an authoritarian “fiancée” who had no scruples. In fact he asked me many times to take her away from Arcore because, as he used to say, she was a bad person and she blackmailed him.This is only one of the many lies which I forced myself to live in. But I don’t want to live in the lies anymore.
I suffer knowing that in this exact moment there are people who have lost everything and are thinking about suicide, while others think about orgies and the striped coat of a poodle. There are people who have a problem with making it to the end of the month, while others have a problem with spending ten thousand euro in cash for one day only. And then, there are people who sell themselves and other people who buy them… There is such a big gap between the problems of these two categories of people that nothing can fill it. Still the saddest thing is that the one who suffers continues to vote for the one who flagellates him. For desperation, for ignorance, for good faith… all plausible reasons but the result is that thus he won’t change a thing. Leibniz used to say: “This is the best of all possible worlds”. I don’t want to accept anymore that this is the best possible world. If we are the world, then we are able to change it.
Some time ago I published an open letter in my blog that narrated my professional life in the world of entertainment in the last 10 years. Today I decided to complete this letter, to tell you the truth about what I’ve lived through. Of how you can lose yourself while you think you are fulfilling your dreams… and one day you understand that it’s not worth it. I am here in front of you to testify that no dream is worth our lives, our dignity of human beings. I am conscious that my revelations will be inconvenient to someone; that they’ll try to stop me, to discredit me, maybe to kill me… But I want to let everyone know that I have nothing left but the truth, and this is what I want to share with you in the next days. The Truth will set us free.
Who is the problem? The one like me, who is ready today and is here to risk and say what is happening, the way things are, or the one who corrupts? It is not the people who denounce like me, the once who are supposed to be massacred. Massacre the one who corrupts! And you know very well who that is… My testimony is just a confirmation of what everyone already knows. But we should move on! We shouldn’t stop! Let’s ask why such investigations are not made, let’s ask why the newspapers keep on talking about futile things!
All that I have done, I’ve done it for my passion which is Cinema but when I understood that I was losing myself for this passion, I decided to talk. I decided to say the truth because no passion is worth our lives. To everyone who still believes in this system, who believes that this is the only possible way of living, I want to say that it isn’t so! This corruptive system is not as strong as it seems to be and I am the demonstration of it. I am here, today. I got out. Today I don’t have a job, I rent an apartment: I sold my apartment so that I could live, so that I could be here with you and talk. I don’t have anything of what the society calls “security”, but I have myself. I have my dignity again.
