The Italian businessman Gianluca Vacchifollowed by millions of people around the world on social media, faces one court battle with three former officialsincluding an assistant who accuses him of forcing her to appear in his videos.
The “influencer” premiered on Amazon Prime Video a documentary on May 25 in which he tells his life beyond what he shows on the networks, where it is a phenomenon with 22.2 million followers on Instagram, 21.5 on Tiktok and 3 on Facebook.
What is Gianluca Vacchi accused of?
Vacchi became famous for presenting his elevated lifestyle on networks, dancing in his villas, on private planes or in paradise places, accompanied by his partner, the model from Venezuela Sharon Fonseca, with whom he has a daughter , Blu Jerusalem.
But now he has to defend himself against the accusations made against him by three former domestic helpers, who accuse him of perpetual working hours and other alleged irregularities.
One of them, the Filipino Laluna Maricris Bantugonwho worked for him between 2017 and 2020, has denounced Vacchi for does not “treat her well” and for “disrespecting her labor rights”as she explained in a recent interview with La Repubblica newspaper.
Badugon asks to be paid 70,000 euros ($ 74,580) for extraordinary and unpaid arrangements and accuses da Vacchi of doing her job “more than 20 hours a day” and that “Causing him stress” by recording his famous videosin which he dances and with his employees.
“In some cases we had to be the first person in their videos, even though we did not want to. “We had to appear dressed in the assistant’s uniform,” he assured the newspaper.
The same media report that Vacchi is in another court battle with two other associates who worked for him for more than two decades and who have challenged his dismissal before the Bologna Prosecutor’s Office.