Lamborghini was allegedly driving by when he noticed the young woman waiting for a bus and stopped to offer her a lift. The two struck up a relationship and Borzone was born in 1988, it is claimed.
“I don’t want to offend anyone, I just want to know whose daughter I am,” Borzone told the court.
Convinced that she is the daughter of Lamborghini, she went public with the claims on television programmes and gossip magazines.
Lamborghini accused her, and her mother, of defamation and the case has now gone to court.
Borzone says that in 2019 she drove from her home in Naples to the town of Funo, near Bologna in northern Italy, hoping to meet the man she claims is her father.
“She had had this niggle for a long time,” said her lawyer, Gian Maria Romanello. “She did not have the same physical features as her supposed father [the husband of Colosimo]. When he and her mother argued, she would often hear her mother say: ‘She’s not even your daughter.’”
The beautician covertly recorded the conversation she had with Lamborghini and it was presented in court, according to La Repubblica newspaper.
“In the conversation, Mr Lamborghini admitted to having had a relationship with Colossimo [Ms Borzone’s mother],” the lawyer told the court. “They met in 1980 in Milan. Rosalba was waiting for a bus, Tonino passed by in his car, he gave her a lift.”
Borzone’s official first name is Clelia, which was a tribute to Lamborghini’s mother, the court was told.
Borzone was not pursuing the case for financial reasons, her mother said. “My daughter doesn’t want money, she just wants the truth,” Colosimo said. “If it had been all about the money, I would have done all this when Flavia was two years old.”
Lamborghini has denied having any biological link to Borzone.
His lawyers said the DNA material was taken from the straw used by his daughter without her consent. It was therefore “unlawful” and should not be admitted as evidence.
Referring to the DNA test results, Sergio Culiersi, another lawyer for the beautician, said: “We brought to court the proof that she is not lying.”
He said a comparison between the DNA of Borzone and Lamborghini “proved 100 per cent that the women are sisters”.
He added: “For us it was important to show that Flavia Borzone did not want to offend Mr Lamborghini, she just wants to be recognised [as his daughter)]. She has lived for years without knowing who her father is.”
Borzone’s legal team said Lamborghini had refused to undergo a DNA test, hence the fact that they resorted to hiring four private detectives to obtain the drinking straw used by his daughter.
“Our client and Elettra Lamborghini are sisters,” the legal team told the court. “They are daughters of the same father. This should be enough to throw out the accusation of defamation because [Ms Borzone and her mother] have just told the truth.”
Lamborghini is a businessman who runs the eponymous Tonino Lamborghini Ltd, a company that produces luxury goods and accessories inspired by the legendary car firm founded by his father. The company, which also has interests in hotels and resorts, is worth around €400 million, according to Italian media reports
The trial was adjourned until March.
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