Camila Giorgi has disappeared: possible problems with the tax authorities

Journalist

May 10 – 10.18am – ROME

The news hit the Foro Italico on Wednesday, when a link leading to the website of the Tennis Integrity Agency (Itia), the body that monitors cases of doping and match-fixing in tennis, began to pass from email to email. From smartphone to smartphone. “Hey, Giorgi retired!” was the most heartfelt phrase in the avenues of the Forum. The site, in fact, under the heading “retired athletes” shows the name Camila Giorgi at the top of the list and the words “Retired on May 7”. But the natural question that tennis is asking itself in these hours is why an athlete like Camila Giorgi, with thousands of fans, followers on social media (and not only for her exploits on the tennis court) has decided to disappear like this, in total silence, arousing suspicion and concern.

giorgi, the scenarios

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The affair has nothing to do with doping, or at least so it seems at the moment. Giorgi declared her withdrawal to the Tennis Integrity Agency precisely to avoid being absent from any checks. Professional tennis players, in fact, have the obligation to fill in the famous ones whereabouts, or communicate their whereabouts in order to be available in case of doping controls. There were no missed checks or positive tests for Camila Giorgi who still remains untraceable. No one saw or heard her. The telephone number, which she had already changed recently without circulating it, is inactive. She also turned off the phones of father Sergio and his family. Lately it was his brother Amadeus who took care of his public relations, his (few) interviews and some covers. But there are no traces of him either, as there are of his mother Claudia, artist and stylist. She is the one who designed the sexy and chic outfits with which Camila stood out on the pitch. They had also created a brand, Giomilawhich the former Italian has always worn in tournaments.

looking for giorgi

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Camila and her family have disappeared into thin air. Nobody manages to get any news or contact them, when the WTA received the notification of the withdrawal from ITIA she immediately tried to call the player at the contact details she had left, but she had no response. The same goes for Federtennis and Padel, various attempts failed. Even the King Cup captain Tathiana Garbin, who had managed to involve Camila by bringing her back to the blue group, hasn’t heard from her for some time: “I haven’t seen her or heard from her for months – said the blue captain -. She’s been telling me for some time not to be ready for a physical problem with a foot”.

giorgi and the taxman

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There are those who believe that the disappearance of the 32-year-old from Macerata is due to the request for indictment by the Vicenza Public Prosecutor’s Office, in the case of false anti-Covid vaccinations, an investigation in which the singer Madame also ended up. Among the many rumors that follow one another in the small world of tennis, there is also the one that Giorgi, with six million euros in prizes earned in her career alone, would have an important dispute with the Revenue Agency and for this reason would have lost her own traces together with the rest of the family. But at the moment these are only hypotheses. What everyone hopes is that nothing serious has happened to the Giorgi family and that this mystery will soon be pierced by the light of truth. Giorgi’s last post on Instagram dates back to seven weeks ago, in Miami. The Florida city has always been Giorgi’s favorite: “I love spending time there with friends, walking along the beach.” But not even in Miami, where she played her last match on March 23rd, being swept away by Swiatek with a double 6-1, is there any news of the former Italian player who was later spotted on the West coast, in San Diego. Shy but cheerful Camila, capable of opening up to those who inspire her trust, of telling her most beautiful dreams like her after winning in Montreal: “I hope this title gives an impetus to my career”. It didn’t happen.