Gabriele Paolini, a few days after being released from the Rieti prison where he has been held since 2021, announces that he will change sex .

The most famous of television troublemakers, who turned 50 on October 12, has made public his decision to begin a gender transition process once he is released from prison: " I've been through a lot here, but recently I had a health problem that convinced me to change sex. The operation affected me a lot and made me understand that my male body no longer belongs to me ."

The nightmare of all journalists had been sentenced by the Court of Cassation to 8 years in prison for inducing child prostitution, production of child pornography and attempted violence against minors , facts dating back to 2013. At the time he spent 19 days in prison and 20 months under house arrest, in 2021 he returned to prison and will be released soon.

At the centre of the story was her alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old: "I loved him," she said after the sentence, "I was 39 and he was 17 but I really loved him ."

(Online Union)