With a follow-up from Tuesday's breaking news that OC exclusively brought you, regarding the Nicoletta Mantovani-Pavarotti Multiple Sclerosis shocker, Italian magazine Chi unleashes some damage control in their October 31, n.43 edition.
The cover screams, "Nicoletta Mantovani, Nasconde un drammatico segreto." [trans: "Nicoletta Mantovani, Hides a Dramatic Secret".] Yeah, more like, "Nasconde dei drammatici segreti". U gots 2 pluralize -- or recognize.
The article goes on to paint Nicoletta in layers of bravery and courage, dignity and perseverance, and slaps a cheesy copy/paste from the Midtown New York Multiple Sclerosis Research Center's website layered over Mantovani and little Alice walking along NYC’s Central Park. The article contines in bold:
"Only the parents and friends most dear to her knew that the young widow of Pavarotti had a serious reason to fly to the States every month. There she attended a center that specializes in Multiple Sclerosis, an illness that she has combated for two years, in silence and with dignity. The high cost of the cure explains also the generous benefits that the tenor left in her favor."
Although the article in Chi opens with the sentence, "Di fronte al gossip delle ultime settimane Nicoletta Mantovani ha scelto di tacere," [trans: "In the face of the gossip from the most recent week, Nicoletta had chosen to be quiet."], Mantovani has apparently stepped up her game. She will appear on Saturday night on Fabio Fazio's talk show, Italy's most widely watched talk show, "to set the record straight" on all that has been going down lately. OC, of course, promises to give a first-hand account of her first TV appearence since her husband's death.