He started out as a delivery boy and extra, he became an entrepreneur in cinema and football. The first adjective that comes to mind when thinking about Massimo Ferrero he is exuberant, but it is an understatement because the president of Sampdoria, arrested in Milan, has reached Istrione points.
Born in 1951, from Rome Testaccio, has always said that he preferred Cinecittà to school. The father is a bus driver, the mother has a stall in the market in Piazza Vittorio and one of the grandmothers was a soubrette of Ambra Jovinelli.
His first love is cinema. It makes an appearance, it becomes production director in the 1970s and early 1980s. He always remained in the sector until he founded the Blu Cinematografica production house in 1998. It is an entrepreneurial attempt that is unsuccessful despite collaborations with well-known names. The business that works is the Ferrero Cinemas Group with about 30 cinemas. The Livingston Energy Flight charter company, which was declared insolvent in 2010, is also doing badly.
He bought the Sampdoria, even if he was born in Rome, in 2014, from the former patron Edoardo Garrone free of charge. He inherited 15 million debts, keeping the team always in Serie A, but without ever arriving in Europe and with an ever stronger desire to resell, without finding buyers.
Its called Is Viperetta, unable to withhold comments and jokes, as well as gestures not without vulgarity. Maurizio Crozza did not miss the opportunity to imitate him. The haunted eyes, the forelock and the goatee are unmistakable. He has three daughters, Vanessa, Michela and Emma. With Manuela Ramunni, 24 years younger than him, he had Rocco Contento and Oscar.
The corporate and judicial troubles have never been lacking. The arrest, however, is sensational. He was stopped by the Guardia di Finanza as part of an investigation by Paola’s prosecutor for corporate crimes and bankruptcy. Sampdoria would not be involved. Ferrero was in Milan and was taken to the San Vittore prison. His daughter Vanessa, grandson Giorgio and three other people are under house arrest. There are also four other suspects. Searches were made between Lombardy, Lazio, Campania, Basilicata and Calabria.
The arrest would be linked to the bankruptcy of some companies in Calabria according to the lawyer of the owner of Sampdoria, Giuseppina Tenga. Funds of companies in liquidation would have been moved to take them away from creditors. The lawyer explained: «He was picked up as a Totò Riina. This morning the president was in a hotel in Milan, but it was necessary for him to come to Rome, because his house is being searched by the Guardia di Finanza, and only he is in possession of the combination of the safe to be searched. I think it was clever and right that Ferrero witnessed the house search in Piazza di Spagna. They picked him up from the hotel as if he were the last of the offenders».
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