Controversial Interview with Rocco Siffredi Leads to Harassment Allegations

The meeting takes place in December, at the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Rome, where Rocco Siffredi, a porn cinema icon, shows up for an interview arranged after the launch of the Supersex series. Two hours of conversation. The interviewer is a journalist, a professional since 2008, who after the meeting receives a series of compliments that the porn actor had already made on the occasion of their first contact, commenting on a photo taken from her social media. Messages that are described as colloquial and kind, which the woman does not give much weight to. But it is after the interview that the chats continue insistently. "I must say that you are really nice, too strong, too cute and hot," are some of the phrases uttered by Siffredi in a voice message right after meeting the journalist, which the woman has now attached to the harassment complaint filed against the actor. But what happened? The exchange, which took place three days ago, was brought to the attention of the Prati police station yesterday by lawyer Laura Sgrò, given "the strong state of agitation" caused in the woman, who turned to her general practitioner for anxiety and abdominal cramp medication. According to the woman, the chats had taken on increasingly heavy tones: "When I hugged you I couldn't say too much, but... well... let's drop it, you were making me feel something quite special. But I told you to tell you that you are really a top woman, top femininity." And then again references to the friend who had joined the victim of harassment: "There were two of you and not one and I ran away. Not out of fear, but to not cause damage," reads another message. Siffredi's anger, however, according to what the journalist testified, worsens more and more. Before publication, the interview is read to Siffredi who expresses his disapproval and asks for the removal of some content. Once the requested parts were removed, the actor, at first, thanks the journalist. After the publication, however, things escalate and a series of insults and allusions to the woman's sex life arrive. "You are not a journalist, you are a profiteer, to sell your inflated little articles you put so much of your own into it." And then, in a much heavier way, the allusions to her sex life and the "advice" to have more sex. The journalist counters regarding the article, says she wants to overlook the insults but that she is ready to sue him. Then follow several messages, written and vocal, and attempts to call without response from Siffredi, until the next day and until the apologies. "As for the offensive part I apologize to you as a woman but I do not do it to avoid your lawsuit, do what you feel, no problem," reads a message. In the following hours, other messages of the same tenor ("I felt used") and phone calls to which, however, the woman does not respond. Finally, the decision to sue him for "the will to offend and belittle my dignity as a woman and professional, without any justification and for trivial reasons." The actor's response: "You should name her so as to tell everyone to stay away from her — says Siffredi to Corriere della Sera —. She was aggressive and insistent, I was wrong to accept the interview. But I too have kept the messages and I challenge her to transcribe the entire recording." The actor claims it was an "unusual" interview: "She hugged me, made continuous allusions to sex, said she was "very strong in bed," invited a friend to join us. A continuous provocation."