Fabrizio Corona, how is the story of the murder commissioned against you?
“Which of the two?”. We do not have space to tell the whole autobiography “How I invented Italy”, just released in the bookstore with the Ship of Theseus.
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Please choose one.
“I’ll explain the vault with the Albanians. There was a client of mine, grandson of a powerful man very famous in the history of Italy ».
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Before you name the name, tell me if you reported it.
“I never denounce anyone.”
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So, forget the name.
“As you want. In the book, there is. In short, he sues me: according to him, I owed him money. But the rule of the underworld is that, if you sue, you can’t send credit recovery. ”
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Why not?
«If you have put the cards in the madame’s hand – the police, the law… – you cannot send the fool to beat up the debtor: otherwise, the madame makes two and two. You cannot be with evil and with good. Clear?”.
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Spans. Therefore?
“Two Albanians arrive at the office. One says: Corona, you have a problem with xx, see to give him the money immediately. And I: ah yes? Let’s go out and see. I get out, my driver follows me and the fight starts. Bartenders, tobacconists rush, the Albanians run away. After a while, a man tells me that there is someone heavy from a stupid family who wants to talk to me. He was very big and on the top of his shaved head he had the acab initials tattooed: all cops are bastards, all cops are bastards. He tells me: two Albanians came to buy a gun and we, before selling a gun, want to know what it will be used for ».
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And what was it for?
“To shoot me. I guess I gamble. The subject with Ahab on his head, then sentenced to 21 years for criminal association with an aggravating mafia, says that he and his men got in the way because they respect me. In short, let’s arrange an appointment, him, me, the Albanians, the creditor. Who understood the message and never saw himself again. However, in these cases, you have to be careful that you don’t get a return horse ».
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The “horse of return”, now, what would it be?
“That a criminal is doing you a favor, but only to get close and get something worse.”
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Is your safety still at risk?
“I think I’ll die killed.”
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What are the hypotheses of this criminal development?
“I spent six years in prison, even in those of brutal criminals, people I had to be friends with to save my skin and who, when they leave, know where to find me. Now, maybe they come and say: lend me ten thousand euros. And I: ‘I’m cabbage. Then, from house arrest, I go out to go to the SMI, a center for the recovery of criminal execution, and there are other criminals, who also want favors. Before, I listened, now, I pretend not to hear, I send them to that country. And these are people who take it out. Many would like me dead ».
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What effect does it have if I define the book “the biography of an Italian criminal”?
“I met many production companies to negotiate the rights. I had closed a docufilm, but before signing a producer came along who wants to make films and docuseries and I’m moving on with him. At the docuseries, Asia Argento is likely to work. Anyway … Everyone told me: don’t think that you come out well. It certainly is. But also The Wolf of Wall Street, when he gave the rights, he was a different person than the one you see in the film. And I have never been a criminal, I am a smart sailor who did not harm the poor people, but he exploited and cheated a system that was already corrupt in itself ».
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With what presumption did you title it “How I invented Italy”?
“Since the age of fourteen I dived into an empty swimming pool, I hit my head and I was no longer the angel I was, I have lived from the inside everything that has marked this country: fashion, Tangentopoli, Berlusconi … Now, I imagine that I created this world in my image and likeness, because I exploited it, I earned it and hit it as an anarchist. My goal was to enter it to destroy it, because my father, from that world, was defeated and I wanted to avenge him ».
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Why was his father Vittorio Corona to be avenged?
“He was a great reporter, a gentleman, and he was taken out of the system. In ’92, he put politicians on the cover of King and titled “La Cupola”. It went into conflict with Rai, its publisher. So, he went to direct Open Studio, but when Silvio Berlusconi takes the field, he refuses to take sides, he goes to Voice with Indro Montanelli, against whom Berlusconi makes war. The voice it closes and dad couldn’t work anymore. He died at the age of 59 ».
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Isn’t it that you have made it worse than “inventing Italy”?
“Also. Most of the “people of Corona” see only my black side. They say: I love Corona because he sends the magistrates to that country, because he is with the most beautiful women, because he has the money. Mine is a negative myth. Not to be followed ».
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She built it with the fake money thrown on the highway, the black money in the false ceiling, the insults to the magistrates.
«I felt the protagonist of a story of injustice and I created a strong antagonist: the judiciary. In the first part of my “judicial career”, I transformed, rode and designed a storytelling to be the representative of Italy defeated in that battle. I did it with the eccentricity and madness of a young man who thought he was not paying the consequences. Then, faced with the boulder of a cumulative 14-year sentence, I realized that the battle had to be played in another way. However, I still struggle to keep quiet about certain things ».
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He constantly writes “I am God”, but what god is one who gets sentenced to 14 years in prison?
“If I weren’t a god, now I’d be, ugly, fat, finished. Instead, I keep going on TV and making five share points, every year I make a different brand and people buy it and, if I weren’t house arrested, I would still be the most requested in the clubs. If I went back to being Fabrizio Corona, I would still be a man worth three million euros a year ».
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At night, with the light off, do you still feel like a god?
«It happens to me like the veterans from Vietnam: I get flashbacks. Before, I lived in total madness, but since I found a relationship with my son Carlos, I feel the weight of everything I’ve been through. If I don’t take three Tavor or 30 drops of Xanax, I don’t sleep. No one can understand what I feel about the thought that I could go back to jail. I have lost my freedom since 2011, almost ten years have passed. I go out once a week for two hours and, when I come back, I am devastated because the contact with the world destabilizes me: I am used to being closed. I no longer have the space-time dimension ».
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What are the worst flashbacks?
“Those of the 15 suicides seen with my own eyes, a terrible one in the summer of 2019: a prisoner with a three-year sentence, after receiving a very bad phone call, in front of my cell, with people screaming and guards not arriving , took the sheet, hung it around his neck and I saw him expire. When you start to have a bit of humanity, those things don’t go through your head. ”
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When did you begin to have some humanity?
“With the last of the five arrests: I was tired, I was grown up and when they called me to tell me that Carlos was hospitalized, I thought that if I didn’t get arrested, he wouldn’t end up in hospital.”
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What’s wrong with your son?
“Psychotic moments. When they arrive, being a fragile soul, it lets itself be influenced by third parties ».
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You write that your son was originally a publishing project.
“The difference between me and the others who work in my environment is that I have the courage to admit it. It was an editorial project in 2002, today in 2020, it is no longer the case. At that time, there were no social media, but there was the cover, the parade with the baby bump, the exclusivity of childbirth … Today, 99 percent of influencers have children as an editorial project. Fedez and Ferragni with their children increase the views, sell emotions, monetize ».
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Maybe they do and don’t notice it.
«Love is also projects. Confuse things. You fall in love with others who fall in love with your story. Me, the more Belén Rodriguez or Nina Moric became famous, the more I loved them. But now I know it wasn’t true love. ‘
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Why wasn’t it?
“If you love, you couldn’t do what you do to the people you’re with. Like I sold the photos of me and Belén making love in the Maldives and I pretended to seek, desperate, who had dared to take them ».
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And he signed contracts for Nina and Belén, keeping 80, 90 percent of the cachet without their knowledge.
“However, I created them and made them become what they have become.”
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shadow carousel
Fabrizio Corona and Moric together: “Nina is really beautiful, let’s rebuild the family”
How did you manage to get published by the Milanese intelligentsia publishing house?
«Simple: in jail, I read and study a lot. My culture rises to the nth power and light bulbs light up. So, I wrote a note: first of all, make an appointment with the publisher Elisabetta Sgarbi. He found me intelligent, published me and introduced me to the most snobbish and intellectual Milan. Even the widow of Umberto Eco. I found myself at ease with it ».
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The book is well written and the wicked question circulating is: did you read it before publishing it?
“I don’t have a ghostwriter. I have the gift of writing and, according to house arrest, I have had the time to dedicate myself to it ».
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He always said that the fake money came from being hosted in the nightclub. Instead?
«Instead the truth is my hallucinating stupidity, the same as the gun that was given to me and that I have kept. It was madness of the character who ate the person ».
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He bought them for 20 percent.
“But only ten thousand euros, in one go, and I’m someone who has earned 50 million euros in life. I got them from a criminal who had invited me for a guest. If there hadn’t been that first unfair arrest, the criminals would never have known or searched for me for the rest of my life. ‘
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How did the crooked ring finger break?
“I broke it on purpose in prison. I had to throw a brand on a shirt and I needed to go out and get photographed. I was taken to the hospital five times and billed five paparazzi. Total: fifty thousand euros “.
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Where does the obsession with money come from?
“They are my great disease. They give me a sense of achieving success and identity. I’m trying to treat myself with a psychologist and two psychiatrists ».
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Was returning to anonymity ever an option?
«I think about it a little. I feel the weight of age like never before. I no longer want to be that Corona who goes against the rules, who goes to the disco, argues ».
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End of sentence in three years and nine months.
«I, for the disproportion of the sentence and for the quantity of years already served, I would like the pardon. They also gave it to Salvatore Buzzi, the one from the capital Mafia, who was thirty years old for voluntary murder ».
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Adriano Celentano asked President Giorgio Napolitano for her in 2014.
“I called him to thank him, crying. He had moved independently, after having read Marco Travaglio’s appeals, after seeing my mother at Enrico Mentana’s ».
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In the book, her mother seems omnipresent in her head. He calls her for any doubts.
“That’s the truth. While I was writing, I would put down a sentence, I would call her and she would take me apart ».
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It doesn’t portray her as a loving mother.
«He is my point of reference. However, as a child, I felt the least loved. I think that’s why I’ve always sabotaged my loves. I combined every one to tell me that if it was over, I was looking for it. Giving it all for love and then being screwed is not for me. Thinking about it, my whole life has been a self-sabotage. I’ve always said to myself: I’ll do it and then I’ll find a remedy ».
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