5 March 2026 - Updated at 22:00
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Rocco Siffredi strikes back and sues the adult actresses who accused him of sexual abuse on set

The porn star was implicated by around twenty performers in a TV show. Now the ball is in the court of the Milan Prosecutor's Office

05 March 2026, 18:10

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Rocco Siffredi strikes back and sues the adult actresses who accused him of sexual abuse on set

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Rocco Siffredi goes on the offensive and takes to court the women who accused him on television. On a late winter morning, March 5, 2026, the sixty-one-year-old actor and producer filed a bulky defamation complaint with the Prosecutor's Office of Milan against about twenty actresses featured in the television investigation by Le Iene. Through his lawyer, Attorney Rossella Gallo, the European porn icon has decided to respond to the heavy media accusations of 2025 not with further statements, but with a full-fledged judicial offensive.

The complaint filed in Milan not only rejects the accusations but is supported by an impressive body of evidence. The defense has indeed provided the magistrates with a hard drive containing "data, documents, releases, and the unedited footage" of the incriminating moments on set. This material, along with exchanges of communications and interviews given by the same performers in other contexts with tones considered "different", aims to categorically dismantle the narrative of coercion. Several industry professionals, such as cameramen and costume designers, have also rallied to support Siffredi, stating they are ready to testify in his favor after denouncing on social media the impossibility of presenting their version of events on TV.

But where does this bitter legal dispute originate? The case erupted in the media between April and May 2025, through seven episodes of an investigation by Le Iene. In front of the cameras, some actresses recounted having experienced "pressures" and "impositions", describing the sets between Italy and Budapest as "unsafe" environments. The performers reported sexual practices deemed "beyond the limits" or not agreed upon, impromptu auditions, and a climate of psychological pressure in which refusal was difficult due to economic and contractual vulnerabilities.

The cornerstone of Siffredi's entire defense strategy is a specific fact: those dramatic television testimonies have never translated, until this moment, into formal criminal complaints for sexual violence against the actor. Siffredi has always denied the accusations, referring to "unverifiable testimonies" and denouncing how his own interview given to the program was "edited" during the editing phase, altering its real context.