Which footballers are linked to Italy’s busted VIP prostitution ring | OneFootball

A judicial investigation in Italy has brought to light an alleged VIP prostitution ring that is said to have operated for years in Milan, with 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 event agency at the center of a prosecutor’s investigation for exploitation and complicity in prostitution.

The prosecutor’s office issued an arrest warrant involving four people accused of running the illicit network of young women. And although, for now, no athletes or celebrities have been named, 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, investigators are seeking to determine how many players also used the escort and drug services — including the so-called “laughing gas” — organized 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 individuals, Alessio Salamone and Luz Luan Amilton Fraga, were described as “participants.”

The operation allegedly worked as follows: Buttini and Salamone, along with two other men, allegedly maintained “contacts with internationally renowned footballers” and managed “the girls” (around a hundred, including escorts and “image girls,” most of them between 18 and 20 years old), employed at various parties, not only “deciding” where they had to appear but also arranging their “private encounters.”

The 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 “calculating how much money I need to recover between Saturday and Sunday.” He mentions the amounts and the names of the people who owed him payment.

The company operating under the name Madeluxuryconcierge invited footballers and, in some way, “legitimized” their participation through social media posts. At present, 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 most important 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 player 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 in Milan’s luxury nightclubs. She spoke of paid sex and said she lived with other young women in an apartment in a building in Cinisello Balsamo, on the outskirts of the city, where the company “Schemo” had its headquarters and where an “illegal” nightclub had also been set up.

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 would be the father of her child.

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