I’m the secret granddaughter of the Lamborghini sports car founder… and his billions should be MINE: Glamorous Italian beautician, 35, hires private detective to collect heiress’ SALIVA in bid to prove they’re sisters amid bitter libel battle
- Flavia Borzone publicly claimed that she is part of the Lamborghini family
- She says she isn’t after money and just wanted to tell the truth
- She says she had to hire private investigators to retrieve a straw used by her “sister.”
An Italian beautician hired a private investigator to collect the saliva from a straw used by an heiress to the Lamborghini fortune to wage a bitter defamation battle in Italy.
Flavia Borzone, 35, is being sued for defamation by the son of the legendary hypercar manufacturer’s founder after she publicly claimed he had slept with her mother and was her real father.
Borzone, a beautician from Naples, says that Tonino Lamborghini, the son of Ferrucio Lamborghini, met her mother, the Neapolitan opera singer Rosalba Colosimo, in the late 1980s when she was 17. Borzone said Lamborghini stopped and offered Colosimo a ride as she waited for a bus in Milan.
The couple is said to have had a relationship and in 1988 Borzone was born.
But after making her claims public on TV shows and tabloids in 2019, she has faced an uphill battle to prove that she is indeed related to the Lamborghini family.
So much so that she hired private investigators to sift through the junk of singer Elettra Lamborghini, Tonino’s daughter, to find a DNA sample for genetic testing, something members of the Lamborghini family have consistently refused to do.
Flavia Borzone (photo) says she is the daughter of Tonino Lamborghini, son of Ferrucio Lamborghini
Private investigators took a straw used by Elettra Lamborghini (pictured), to obtain a DNA sample for genetic testing
Borzone says she is the love child of Tonino Lamborghini (pictured in 1998)
Detectives said they found a straw that the 29-year-old socialite used to drink a cold coffee frappuccino.
While experts from the University of Ferrara said the DNA sample from the straw, dubbed “the straw of a thousand secrets” by Italian media, turned out to be a genetic match between Borzone and Lamborghini, lawyers for the car family claim the sample was taken without consent, and was therefore ‘unlawful’ and should not be considered valid evidence.
A lawyer for the beautician, Sergio Culiersi, said: “We have presented evidence to the judge that she is not lying.”
He added that the DNA match “proved 100% that the women are sisters.”
‘For us it was important to show that Flavia Borzone did not want to offend Mr. Lamborghini, she just wants to be recognized (as his daughter). She lived for years without knowing who her father is.’
Lamborghini is known for making flashy hyper cars for the ultra-rich
Borzone told the court that in 2019 she drove from her home in Naples to Bologna to meet Tonino, hoping to meet the man she believes is her father.
One of her lawyers, Gian Maria Romanello, said: ‘She had this problem for a long time. She did not have the same physical characteristics as her alleged father.
“When he and her mother argued, she would often hear her mother say, ‘She’s not even your daughter.’
Borzone was secretly recording a conversation with the Lamborghini heir, who heads the €400 million luxury goods division that makes products inspired by the brand, when he met him.
“In the conversation, Mr Lamborghini admitted to having had a relationship with Colossimo,” one of her lawyers told the court.
Her mother said Borzone was not pursuing the case for financial gain: “She just wants the truth. If it was just about the money, I would have done all this when Flavia was two years old.’
The trial has been postponed until March.