A three-year engagement for an Italian power couple ended with “psychological violence” when a ritzy party set the stage for a dramatic breakup.
Millionaire Italian banker Massimo Segre, 64, had invited scores of guests to his Turin mansion to celebrate his engagement to 47-year-old entrepreneur Cristina Seymandi. It was there, in front of the estimated 150 “financiers, politicians and other members of Torinese high society,” according to The Times, that the wealthy would-be groom revealed multiple infidelities.
“Tonight, I’d like to gift Cristina the freedom to love,” read one translation of a video captured from the event and shared on social media. Standing beside Segre as he read from a prepared note, Seymandi’s expression noticeably changed from enjoyment to shock as the revelations came. “To love another person; a notable lawyer, who she clearly cares about more than me.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4M56yvifM
“Dear Cristina, I know how much you are in love with him mentally and sexually. And I know that before him you had a relationship with an industrialist acquaintance,” he disclosed of another alleged affair. “Don’t think it pleases me to look like a cuckold in front of all of you.”
“Cristina is so good at telling her truths, that I couldn’t leave her alone to narrate the reason why I’m ending [our] life together tonight,” argued Segre who had reportedly met his now ex-fiancé during COVID, leading their twice delayed nuptials to be slated for October before the breakup.
“It’s a banal story of infidelity, even premarital. I am so disappointed. I am heartbroken,” he went on before seemingly suggesting she go on their planned honeymoon with the man she was having the affair with. “Dear Cristina, go to Mykonos with your lawyer. Be happy with him, it’s all paid for, just like the trip to Vietnam.”
Wishing her happiness and the potential of a continued professional relationship in the future, Segre apologized to his guests before setting down the microphone and dimming the lights to make his exit.
Massimo Segre – a well-known banker from Turin – left 200 guests speechless by revealing the betrayals of his partner, the former grillina Cristina Seymandi. Ouch pic.twitter.com/uETPqsjiiL
— Dr. Celeste Fabrie ♂️Lifestyle Coach (@DrFabrie) August 11, 2023
As the story of the broken engagement became public, Seymandi and Segre reportedly continued a dispute through the media. In a letter to Zona Bianca TV news, she went on to claim that he had committed an act of “psychological violence” and had “meticulously planned his revenge.”
Her adviser Luca Poma spoke with the Times and argued that the entrepreneur had suffered “reputational damage” and legal action would follow. “She has suffered very serious attacks on social media and threats from Italian citizens. It has been traumatic.”
From Segre’s team, his attorneys had denied claims that the banker was responsible for the video going public “let alone having allow it to be filmed” and went on to suggest that Seymandi had withdrawn nearly £600,000, roughly three-quarters of a million American dollars.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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