It is the video of the summer in Italy. At the party where two members of Turin’s high society, Massimo Segre and Cristina Seymandi, are going to get engaged, the groom takes the bus and reads a letter revealing her infidelity: “You betrayed me, go to Mykonos with him. I give you freedom“.
The party has started on July 28 at 7:00 p.m. With the night over, comes the scandal. “I would never have imagined an evening like this. If I had been told that Segre was planning to do what he did, I certainly would not have accepted the invitation. Also because someone assumed that the staff members did not know about it. We didn’t know anything at all“. Says Maurizio Arena, the Dj who appears next to Massimo Segre in the video. There was a long discussion about what happened that night in his villa in Turin.
The guests showed up for the meeting with their best smile and a gift for Cristina Seymandi (her birthday would have been celebrated). She was happy and received her friends with kindness and courtesy. Her still partner behaved in the same way, with speech in pocket. He prepared everything for the big party: flower arrangements, balloons, an excellent dinner, fireworks, a cake, kisses, toasts, music and hugs.
“MI found myself in a surreal situation“, commented the DJ. “I tried to revive the atmosphere with music by Bob Sinclar, I wanted to eliminate that icy silence. I’ve been doing this job for decades and nothing like this has ever happened to me. While Cristina Seymandi’s ex-partner talked about lies and betrayals, Chiara Iadicicco, head of catering, was in charge of the cake. “I was there for work, I heard the speech, but without much implicationno. She was doing something else,” she explains. “When it was all over, Segre left immediately and the lady tried to follow him. I never saw them again.” Meanwhile, those present looked at each other in amazement.
Someone says they saw a woman crying. “At that moment,” says Iadicicco, “I had to see the guests off. I was petrified too but I did what I had to do. We didn’t know anything, we never, never would have imagined all this.”