Naike Rivelli Sued by Barbara D'Urso Over Controversial Videos

This morning, the first hearing took place at the Court of Alessandria involving defendant Naike Rivelli, daughter of Ornella Muti, who was sued by host Barbara D'Urso for two videos published in 2019. In these videos, the influencer commented on two incidents that occurred during the 'Pomeriggio Cinque' show, which, according to the host, are detrimental to her honor and reputation. Barbara D'Urso, excluded from a return to Rai in the upcoming schedules. And Briatore clarifies: 'Never advocated for her return.' Why did Barbara D'Urso sue Naike Rivelli? 'Ms. D'Urso did not recognize the irony and sarcasm of Naike in saying certain things about a skit at a moment of the 'Pomeriggio 5' show,' explains Rivelli's lawyer, Antonio Pelle, shortly after the hearing to Adnkronos. 'The first video was about an intervention by Sgarbi where he talked about his sexual appeal and where both Sgarbi and D'Urso joked among themselves, and Naike made a comment on that model of television, which at that time had a huge audience, and said 'how low Italy has fallen to watch these trash programs.' The second video,' the lawyer continues, 'was about an interview conducted by D'Urso with Silvio Berlusconi before the electoral campaign in Sardinia on February 24, 2019. In the video, Naike, always with sarcasm, highlighted that the one with the Cavaliere was not an interview but essentially a monologue in which only he spoke, and made a joke saying that perhaps if Ms. D'Urso crossed her legs to show her underwear to the president, he would stop talking incessantly, recalling incidents in which the hostess's underwear was indeed seen. In today's hearing, D'Urso was heard, who, present in court with her lawyer, recounted the reasons that led her to sue Rivelli for defamation. 'As far as we defense lawyers are concerned,' Pelle further explains, 'we tried to pinpoint and highlight the context in which those videos were made and the fact that it was D'Urso herself who joked with Sgarbi about suggestive things. In the other video published by Naike, it was stated as an objective fact that Berlusconi was speaking at length without giving his interlocutor the opportunity to intervene with questions.'