Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano resigns over affair scandal
The younger woman involved filmed their rendezvous with smart glasses and posted the photos online
Italy’s culture minister resigned on Friday weeks after being caught in an adulterous affair with a younger woman who filmed their rendezvous with internet-connected smart glasses.
Gennaro Sangiuliano had tried to hold on to his job after being embroiled in the scandal that emerged last month, when Maria Rosaria Boccia started posting photos of the two of them at public events.
“After reflecting during these painful days I decided to irrevocably resign from my post as Minister of Culture,” Sangiuliano wrote to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a letter published by his ministry.
Meloni, in a statement, thanked him for his “extraordinary service”.
Sangiuliano’s departure comes less than two weeks before Italy hosts a meeting of culture ministers of the G7 group of industrialised countries, which Italy is presiding this year.
Meloni has already named his successor, Alessandro Giuli, president of MAXXI, Italy’s national museum for 21st-century art.
