Which footballers are involved in Italy's busted VIP prostitution ring | OneFootball

A judicial investigation in Italy brought to light an alleged VIP prostitution ring that is said to have operated for years in Milan and to have counted Serie A footballers, businessmen, and celebrities among its clients. At least 70 footballers, hockey players, and even a Formula 1 driver attended parties organized by an events agency now at the center of a prosecutor’s investigation for exploitation and aiding prostitution.

The prosecutor’s office issued an arrest warrant for four people accused of running the illicit network of young women. And although no athletes or celebrities have been named for now, the names of players from Inter, Milan, Juventus, Sassuolo, Hellas Verona, Torino, and Monza (Serie B), among others, who attended the parties have begun to emerge.

Official reports indicate that the footballers are not part of the investigation because being clients does not constitute a crime. However, authorities are seeking to determine how many players also used escort and drug services — including the so-called “laughing gas” — arranged by the company Ma.De Milan.

Investigating judge Chiara Valori yesterday ordered house arrest for Emanuele Buttini and Deborah Ronchi, the couple identified as the “promoters and ringleaders” of the organization. Two other people, Alessio Salamone and Luz Luan Amilton Fraga, were described as “participants.”

The operation is believed to have worked like this: Buttini and Salamone, together with two other men, allegedly maintained “contacts with internationally renowned footballers” and managed “the girls” (around a hundred, including escorts and “image girls,” mostly between 18 and 20 years old), employed at various parties, not only “deciding” where they had to appear, but also arranging their “private meetings.”

Documents indicate that Salamone was responsible for obtaining laughing gas, a substance that passes anti-doping controls: “We need balloons, we’re at the Duca, at Me Milan,” he said last November. He is also heard saying that he was “calculating how much money I need to recover between Saturday and Sunday.” He mentions the amounts and the names of the people who had to pay him.

The company operating under the name Madeluxuryconcierge invited footballers and, in some way, “laundered” their participation through social media posts. Currently, the Instagram account operating under that name shows only a series of reels featuring luxury hotels in Milan, Mykonos, and Saint Barth, in the Caribbean. However, users of the social network captured images of its VIP clients before the posts were deleted.

The scandal has taken on major proportions in Italy, especially when names involving Inter and Milan, two of the biggest clubs in Serie A, began to surface.

Among the footballers said to have hired the services are Daniel Maldini, son of the legendary Paolo; Real Madrid defender Dean Huijsen; Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen (who played for Napoli and was sold to Galatasaray); Luca Pellegrini; Matteo Cancellieri (Lazio); Alessandro Buongiorno (Napoli), who is part of the Italian national team; and Samuele Ricci (Milan).

A young foreign woman revealed, in August 2024, what the party nights were like at Milan’s luxury nightclubs. The young woman spoke of paid sex and said they lived with other young women in an apartment in a building in Cinisello Balsamo, on the outskirts of the city, where the company “Schemo” was based and where they had also set up an “illegal” nightclub.

She said her alleged exploiters kept 50% of the money and, according to her, also charged them rent for the apartment. Another of the girls said she was looking for a footballer who she claimed was the father of her child.

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