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Rita De Crescenzo on 'Belve' Details Addiction, Assault Allegation, Legal Cases, New Ambitions

The TikTok personality used the prime-time platform to present a self-portrait of recovery.

Overview

  • Appearing Tuesday on Rai2’s Belve, Rita De Crescenzo gave an extended first‑person account of her life and rise on social media.
  • She said she spent about 30 years using drugs and psychotropic medications and that she had a son at 13 with Ciro Marranzino, whom she described as linked to the Contini family and arrested shortly after the birth.
  • De Crescenzo alleged she was raped by three men at the central station during her addiction and said that trauma pushed her to quit drugs.
  • Journalists revisited past proceedings, including a 2017 arrest on drug‑trafficking charges and defamation cases, while she maintained she never sold drugs.
  • She claimed a family connection to singer Massimo Ranieri and voiced a wish to act in a Naples‑set Christmas comedy with Christian De Sica.