Influencer, journalist and TV
personality Selvaggia Luccarelli on Tuesday published some of
the threats she has received from people blaming her for the
death of Giovanna Pedretti, the 59-year-old restaurateur who is
believed to have committed suicide after being exposed for
allegedly writing a fake review to get publicity for her
pizzeria.
"I know where you live, watch your back because your hours are
numbered. I'll stab you when you least expect it. This is not a
joke," reads one of them, published by Lucarelli on Instagram.
"Nobody cares about this dead lady. Everyone is using her to
feast at their table," said Lucarelli on Tuesday in a separate
post on X, formerly Twitter.
"Politics. The colleagues who disliked me. The newspapers
themselves," added the left-leaning journalist whose big social
media following has been boosted by her being the most outspoken
judge 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, liberal
celebrity chef and influencer Lorenzo Biagiarelli, and state
broadcaster Rai's left-leaning Rai3 news channel Tg3, for
creating the online backlash that allegedly drove Pedretti to
her death by exposing her claim that she had barred a customer
over his complaint he had been seated next to a gay couple and a
boy in a wheelchair to be false.
Investigators have opened a probe into instigation to suicide
without suspects in order to establish the true origin of the
allegedly fake review post.
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