Violence against women, Lucarelli: ‘Over 50 celebrities naked on sexist website’

Rome, 27 October (LaPresse) – “There are over 50 well-known Italian women on the website with AI-generated nudes, from Federica Nargi to Maria De Filippi, from Andrea Delogu to Cristina D’Avena, from Chiara Ferragni to Elodie. And then there’s Anna Tatangelo, Elisabetta Canalis, Martina Colombari, Justine Mattera, Tess Masazza, Giulia De Lellis, Annalisa, Paola Perego, Caterina Balivo, Michelle Hunziker, Arisa, Francesca Fagnani, Veronica Gentili. I am also among these names,‘ Selvaggia Lucarelli writes on Instagram. ’It’s all on a forum that hosts over seven million users, with tens of thousands of active members 24 hours a day,‘ the journalist continues. ’The fact is that it has much more serious content than this, which you will read and which does not concern well-known names. I wrote this article, together with Serena Mazzini, two weeks ago. We were undecided whether to publish it or not because, while denouncing a monstrous phenomenon, we did not want to give it further publicity. Today, however, not only has the news become public knowledge, but the newspapers have even published the name of the site, an incredible mistake that can only increase the spread of these images. But we also wanted to avoid personalising the issue because, since I am also on that website, I did not want to become the news, I was not interested: since these images were created with artificial intelligence (similar to a photomontage), I did not feel terribly upset and, I believe, neither did the others. That was not the point, also because we had privately warned many women on the same page. The point was to try to analyse the phenomenon’.