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Pandorogate
Pandorogate is a fraud scandal surrounding Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni following revelations that she had promoted products claiming proceeds would go to charity while pocketing profits. The scandal involves multiple investigations into Ferragni's charitable partnerships with millions of euros in alleged unjust profits identified. Over a million euros in fines were imposed on her and her companies while an indictment for aggravated fraud was obtained in January 2025 with a trial expected in September 2025. The scandal led to the enactment of the Ferragni Law in Italy to regulate promotion by influencers with over a million followers to prevent future crimes of fraud and false advertising. Background In December 2022, journalist Selvaggia Lucarelli published an article in ''Domani (newspaper), Domani'' skeptical whether sales of Pandoro, pandoro cakes promoted by Ferragni to support a :it:Ospedale infantile Regina Margherita, children's hospital were actually resulting in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Ferragni
Chiara Ferragni (; born 7 May 1987) is an Italian Internet celebrity, blogger and influencer. Since 2021, Ferragni has been engulfed in controversy as the protagonist of the Pandorogate, Pandorogate fraud scandal in which she is alleged to have unjustly profited millions of euros while claiming to be raising funds for charity. In 2023, she was required to pay a $1 million fine for fraud by the Italian Competition Authority. In January 2025, she was sent to trial on criminal charges for aggravated fraud in conjunction with the same investigation. The Pandorogate scandal led to the passage of the Ferragni Law in Italy to prevent future fraud and false advertising by influencers. Biography Ferragni was born in the northern city of Cremona in 1987. Ferragni is the oldest of three daughters of a dentist from Cremona. Her mother Marina Di Guardo is an Italian writer from Sicily who also worked as deputy director of the Blumarine fashion house. At the age of 16, she was hired by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferragni Law
DDL Beneficenza, popularly known as the Ferragni Law, is an Italian law passed in 2024 in response to Chiara Ferragni's Pandorogate fraud scandal to regulate social media influencers with more than 1 million followers to combat scams and false advertising. History The Ferragni Law was proposed in response to the widely publicized Pandorogate scandal involving Chiara Ferragni after she advertised products promising contributions to charity without making promised donations. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni declared that despite Ferragni's sanction from the competition authority for deceptive advertising, the scandal had exposed a gap in the law regulating activities by influencers. It was proposed by Minister for Enterprises Adolfo Urso. The law, a DDL (disegno di legge), was approved by the Council of Ministers ( Consiglio dei Ministri) on January 25, 2024. However, it was criticised by some for penalties being considered too low. The law was part of a wide-ranging backlash for Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domani (newspaper)
''Domani'' is an Italian newspaper published in Rome, Italy. The newspaper was launched by Carlo De Benedetti, former publisher of ''La Repubblica'', in the spring of 2020, after the latter had been sold by his sons to the Agnelli family and, in his view, had started to betray its legacy as Italy's leading progressive newspaper. ''Domani'' was first published on 12 September 2020 and has since been edited by Stefano Feltri, former deputy editor of ''Il Fatto Quotidiano''. According to Feltri, one month after its establishment, the newspapers was selling an average of 14,000 print copies per day and had 7,000+ digital subscribers. ''Domani'' is controlled by Editoriale Domani SpA, a public limited company owned by De Benedetti, but will be given to a nonprofit foundation as soon as possible, in order to guarantee its independence and autonomy. At the end of October 2020, Luigi Zanda resigned from chairman of the publishing society because of conflict of interest with his role o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandoro
''Pandoro'' () is an Italian sweet bread, most popular around Christmas and New Year. Typically a product of the city of Verona, Veneto, ''pandoro'' traditionally has an eight-pointed shape. It is often dusted with vanilla scented icing sugar, which is said to resemble the snowy peaks of the Alps during Christmas. Its name and origins are attributed to the Italian pastry chef Domenico Melegatti. History The first citation of a dessert clearly identified as ''pandoro'' dates to the 18th century. The dessert certainly figured in the cuisine of the Venetian aristocracy. Venice was the principal market for spices as late as the 18th century, as well as for the sugar that by then had replaced honey in European pastries and bread made from leavened dough. It was at Verona, in Venetian territory, that the formula for making ''pandoro'' was developed and perfected, a process that required a century. The modern history of this dessert bread began there on October 30, 1894, when D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Competition Authority
The Italian Competition Authority (, AGCM) is the competition regulator in Italy. It is an Italian quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization established on the basis of Law №287 of 10 October 1990. As of 2004, the Italian Competition Authority has also been in charge of enforcing laws against conflicts of interest for Holders of Public Office. As the Italian competition regulator, the Authority has the task of enforcing both Italian and European consumer protection laws. It is financed by annual allocations through a special chapter of the Ministry of Economic Development's budget. The Financial Law of 2006 introduced partial self-financing: ''AGCM'' has full control over the management of these funds for its own operations. An annual report is presented to the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Duties The main duties of the authority are: * Vigilance against abuses from market dominance. * Vigilance against cartels that may prejudice or restrict fair com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardia Di Finanza
The Guardia di Finanza (; G. di F. or GdF; or ) is an Italian militarised law enforcement agency under the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy), Ministry of Economy and Finance, instead of the Ministry of Defence (Italy), Ministry of Defence. Mission The mission and institutional tasks of the Guardia di Finanza are stated in law 189 of 23 April 1959, and 68/2001 and are subdivided into priority ones (preventing, investigating and reporting financial evasions and violations, overseeing the compliance with the provisions of politico-economic interest and surveillance at sea for financial police purposes) and contribution ones (maintaining public order and safety, political-military defence of the borders and international antidrug operations). The primary mission of the Guardia di Finanza is to protect the legal economy and the businesses operating in compliance with the law while ensuring that the Republic, the European Union, the regions, and the local governments can rely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nearly 1.4 million, while its Metropolitan City of Milan, metropolitan city has 3.2 million residents. Within Europe, Milan is the fourth-most-populous List of urban areas in the European Union, urban area of the EU with 6.17 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan) is estimated between 7.5 million and 8.2 million, making it by far the List of metropolitan areas of Italy, largest metropolitan area in Italy and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is the economic capital of Italy, one of the economic capitals of Europe and a global centre for business, fashion and finance. Milan is reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuneo
Cuneo (; ; ; ) is a city and in Piedmont, Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in the south-west of Piedmont, at the confluence of the rivers Stura di Demonte, Stura and Gesso (river), Gesso. Cuneo is bounded by the municipalities of Beinette, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Boves, Piedmont, Boves, Busca, Piedmont, Busca, Caraglio, Castelletto Stura, Centallo, Cervasca, Morozzo, Peveragno, Tarantasca and Vignolo. It is located near six mountain passes: *Colle della Maddalena at *Colle di Tenda at – Traforo stradale del Colle di Tenda, Tunnel of Tenda at , long *Colle del Melogno at *Colle San Bernardo at *Colle di Nava at *Bocchetta di Altare, Colle di Cadibona at . History Cuneo was founded in 1198 by the local population, who declared it an independent commune, freeing themselves from the authority of the bishops of Asti and the marquisate of Monferrat, marquisses of Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prato
Prato ( ; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') in Tuscany, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Prato. The city lies in the northeast of Tuscany, at an elevation of , at the foot of Monte Retaia (the last peak in the Calvana chain). With 198,326 inhabitants as of 2025, Prato is Tuscany's second largest city after Florence, and the third largest in Central Italy. Historically, Prato's economy has been based on the textile industry and its district is the largest in Europe. The textile district of Prato is made up of about 7000 fashion companies, amounting to around 2 billion euros of city's export. The renowned Datini archives are a significant collection of late medieval documents concerning economic and trade history, produced between 1363 and 1410. The city boasts important historical and artistic attractions, with a cultural span that started with the Etruscans and then expanded in the Middle Ages and reached its peak with the Renaissance, when artists such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th century, the city was the location of the Council of Trent. Formerly part of Austrian Empire, Austria and Austria-Hungary, it was annexed by Kingdom of Italy, Italy in 1919. With 118,142 inhabitants, Trento is the third largest city in the Alps and second largest in the historical region of Tyrol. Trento is an educational, scientific, financial and political centre in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, in Tyrol and Northern Italy in general. The city contains a picturesque Medieval and Renaissance historic centre, with ancient buildings such as Trento Cathedral and the Castello del Buonconsiglio. Together with other Alpine towns Trento engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
