Overview

• Cléry gifted her Tuscania country house to Alexandre Wayaffe while retaining usufruct rights, seeking to mend their mother–son bond.
• She filed a civil lawsuit after discovering that Alexandre sold the property without her consent earlier this year.
• Alexandre’s legal team unexpectedly summoned Serena Grandi—former wife of Cléry’s late husband—as a witness in the trial.
• Their decades-long relationship has been marked by estrangement and hate-filled messages from Alexandre toward his mother.
• The public courtroom battle highlights the clash between Italian property laws on nuda proprietà and usufrutto and Cléry’s personal history of fleeing an abusive marriage.