They denounced Alberto Genovese, the startup entrepreneur arrested for sexual violence against an 18-year-old, at the beginning of January, they were interviewed on TV to tell their story, but without ever being filmed: now instead Martina Facchini and Ylenia Demeo, who are assisted by the lawyer Ivano Chiesa, have decided to come out publicly to respond to the criticisms and accusations of being escorts. And to warn that what happened to them “can happen to anyone”. To the magazine Mow – Men on Wheels, the two girls, 20 years old Ylenia who is a model, and 22 Martina who attends the IED, went back to tell that “everyone knew it was happening, but everyone feared him because he was powerful and offered everything to everyone”.
Even drugs in his parties, at Terrazza Sentimento, the penthouse in the heart of Milan where the 18-year-old was raped, but also in Ibiza and beyond. It is in Ibiza that Martina says she understood that something was wrong, seeing a girl in a confused state (one of those who reported Genovese, ed). “It was there that I began to realize that the same thing had happened to me.” “Alberto Genovese – explains Ylenia – became a monster. Basically he was very good, funny, intelligent, he took you in the head” but then “he transformed when he didn’t sleep for two or three days, high on cocaine. He became gloomy and delirious”.
“In October – he adds – just before the mess which then triggered the whole case happened, I suffer the story I remember”. “I only have flashes, but they are longer flashes – he continues – I remember the pain I felt and now that I am repeating it it is as if I felt it again”. From him, they assure, they never took money. “On the contrary. My agency – explains Ylenia – has lost faith in me precisely because when I was with him I did not answer the phone and I missed out on many opportunities. I listened to him who told me that women should not go to university and should not to work”. “Even with me – echoes Martina – he made certain speeches, that the woman is stupid and even if she is intelligent she should not apply and should not work. She would say to me: ‘At 24 you find yourself someone who keeps you, at 27 start a family, so you have a guaranteed future, because a woman at 27 is to be thrown away ‘”.
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