Repeated episodes of violence perpetrated even using a “baseball bat” were reported, before the judges of the Monocratic Court of Rome, by Guendalina Tavassi, influencer and former competitor of Big Brother and the Island of the famous. Author of the violence, according to the testimony of the woman anticipated by Il Messaggero, the ex-husband Umberto D’Aponte. The 38-year-old entrepreneur is charged with family abuse, aggravated injuries and damage.
“He chased me with a baseball bat and beat me in the head,” said Tavassi in the courtroom, who told of an escalation of brutality during the relationship with the married man in 2013 – the two had met on a Naples-Milan train – and with whom he had two children, Chloe and Salvatore. A relationship that – for the woman – «was a constant threatening and denigrating me». The influencer told of repeated outbursts of anger: “We quarreled and broke the window pane which ended up in the baby’s crib.” Gwendolyn also described physical damage: “she Once she broke my nose by throwing the keys to my car.” And then staged as when she communicated her decision to end the relationship and he feigned epileptic fits in front of her children.
According to the testimony of the ex-wife, the man would not have stopped even in the presence of other people, as during a meeting for the separation that took place in the lawyer Leonardo D’Erasmo’s office: “I was recording it with my mobile phone because I was afraid of his reactions. I told him and he went on a rampage by attacking me and breaking my cell phone. ‘ Hence the request for a ban on approach. Then, violated by the man when he attacked Guendalina’s new companion, Federico Perna, in front of his son’s school. For violating the restraining order, Umberto D’Aponte ended up in prison in February 2022.
