Patrizia Caselli, a guest on “Today is another day”, a Rai Uno program conducted by Serena Bortone, told of her romantic relationship with Bettino Craxi. The woman asserted: “I was in Mexico with him when the international arrest warrant came to him. We went to Hammamet together, in full respect of the other figures that existed in his life. We shared a great tragedy together “.
The story between her and Craxi emerged, even before it had its beginning, from an anonymous letter that Walter Chiari sent to the wife of the then Prime Minister, revealing to her that Caselli was her lover: “But it wasn’t true, we didn’t know each other and nothing had happened either. Again, he had been very far-sighted and had foreseen what would happen next. The relationship with Bettino was born many years later, when we started dating for dinner with other people. Following him in his fall was inevitable for me, due to the feelings I felt for him “. (update by Alessandro Nidi)
Patrizia Caselli, Bettino Craxi’s lover: “Being with him was a divestment”
Patrizia Caselli, 61, author and TV presenter, was romantically linked to Bettino Craxi for nine years, from 1991 until his death on January 19, 2000. “Lover is a word that does not frame me. The word that frames me is companion. Companion in a very difficult and crepuscular piece of his life, but for this very reason it was full of authentic moments”, Caselli said on the pages of the weekly Today on the occasion of the release of the film “Hammamet“. To stay close to Craxi, exiled to Tunisia, Patrizia Caselli left Italy and an exclusive contract with Rai: “Being with him – humiliated, mocked, defeated – was a “divestment” … Yet it was the easiest decision of my life. The then director of Rai 2, Giampaolo Sodano, told me: “I confirm you, I keep your job, maybe you think about it”. Craxi also tried to hold me back: “Wait a little longer, you have your life to live, your job, in case you will join me”. But I never even considered not going with him”.
Patrizia Caselli and the “cohabitation” with Craxi’s wife
In Hammamet, however, there was also Anna Maria Moncini, the wife of Bettino Craxi: “The roles were very clear, no one denied that I existed, there was the utmost respect … I stayed in a rented house, I avoided the beaches that Anna frequented, “her” golf course”, He said Patrizia Caselli a Today. In Tunisia, therefore, there were two Madame Craxi, but when the socialist leader died, at his side there was only his daughter Stefania: “I took the plane, got into my red “Peugeottina”, which I still keep in Hammamet, and went to the hospital”, Recalled the presenter. Legend has it that the presenter pretended to be her daughter to be able to say goodbye to Craxi: “History, on the other hand, knows that his escort would never have confused me with Stefania. They knew me, I knew them, their wives, the way they joked. They made me pass, they “opened”, they became a cordon. They left me alone in the morgue with Craxi”, Clarified Caselli.
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