Investigation by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office for exploitation and aiding and abetting prostitution: four under house arrest. No suspects among the players: there would be some from Inter, Milan, Juve, Sassuolo and Verona
There are at least seventy footballers who participated in the parties organized by the Milanese events agency at the center of an investigation by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office for exploitation and facilitation of prostitution. Their names are omitted in the order. None of them are under investigation as they have not committed crimes. These are players too Inter, Milan, Juve, Sassuolo and Verona. However, it has not been ascertained how many also used the escort and laughter drug service.
The complaint
The complaint came from one of the young prostitutes who, on 23 August 2024, decided to name Emanuele Buttini and Deborah Ronchiwho ended up under house arrest yesterday, also for criminal association, together with two other people. The girl said that even during the lockdown for Covid, social events with escort services were organized almost every day” and the girls had “paid sexual relations with guests, selected above all from professional footballers”. They would have managed, through the Ma.De Milano, an alleged ring of exploitation and aiding and abetting prostitution, with an “all inclusive” after-match package: evenings in five-star clubs in the Milanese nightlife, escorts and sometimes “snorting” of laughing gas. The woman told the investigators, in the investigation of the economic and financial police unit of the Gdf e as stated in the order of investigating judge Chiara Valori, that he lived in Cinisello Balsamo, in the Milan area, in an apartment in the same building where Ma.De had its headquarters, from 2019 to 2023. In the building, he reported, there was also “an illegal nightclub” and the events were advertised on Instagram. AND “Ronchi and Buttini retained at least 50% of the amount paid, giving the girl the rest”.
A pregnant girl
From an interception of 4 December last, in the investigation documents, emerge the words of a girl who allegedly had relationships with footballers and who was trying “to trace the date” of a sexual relationship to identify the “partner with whom she conceived the child”. She had in fact remained pregnant. In the order of the Milanese investigation we read wiretaps such as those of Deborah Ronchi, who was said to be the head of the group together with her partner and who last November said “the money from the envelopes that belonged to the girls (…) you took it, didn’t you?”. And a girl: “They also gave me the envelope because I had the hockey people there make the table.” It also appears from the documents that Ronchi, 38, and his partner Emanuele Buttini, 37 years, in the summer they would “mostly operate in Mykonosin Greece”. From the social profiles, as reported by the investigating judge, we can see photos posted by the suspects “portraying them together with Serie A footballers and attractive girls”.
Ronchi and Buttini
It also emerges from the precautionary custody order that Emanuele Buttini, who with his partner would have been at the head of the group, “he did not declare income from 2015 to 2023 and in 2024 he declared “just under 17 thousand euros. Buttini, we read, also has a criminal record “for crimes against property” and “police records for extortion and kidnapping, but evidently – explains investigating judge Chiara Valori – not even previous convictions served to induce him to adopt a different lifestyle”. The dialogue regarding the organization of one of the many evenings for wealthy clients, such as athletes hockey players or Formula One driversand above all Serie A footballers, is reported in the provision carried out by the Gfd against Emanuele Buttini and Deborah Ronchiconsidered the “promoters and dominus” of the organization, e Alessio Salamone and Luz Luan Amilton Fraga, defined as “participants”, who with a third person would have maintained “contact with the internationally renowned footballers who were clients” and would have managed “the girls employed on the various evenings not only deciding” where they should show up.
