“It destroyed my house, damage for over 200 thousand euros”. “No, hidden defects of the property”

Milan – Upstairs, an important story: demolition of internal wallsremoval of doors and systems, dismantling of floors and screeds, massive use of pneumatic hammers. Just by chance Paolo Rossi59 years old, Genoese auditor resident in Citylifedoes not see the plaster of the ceiling collapse on his head: “The ceiling of the gym and sauna area has completely detached, falling to the ground and damaging the rooms”. It was December 4, 2024, Dr. Rossi was out of Milan with his wife. Above his apartment, however, they were at work renovating the purchased apartment (October 2024) from Eros Ramazzotti.

Upon returning home (ten rooms also used as a professional studio), Rossi and his wife “found the house seriously compromised” and since then they have been living in “precarious conditions”, with “some rooms made safe using scaffolding”. Result: litigation and request for over 200 thousand euros for damages caused by the construction site of the singer-songwriter-real estate owner. The newspaper tells it The Truth. These are things of life, you might say.

The last inspection before the collapse: “property in good condition”

Before the collapse, the construction manager and the condominium administrator had carried out an inspection, recognizing the good condition of the property and ensuring that any damage would have been attributable to the work above. After the accident, firefighters and local police detected “extensive demolitions and static instability caused by the works”. A technical report linked the detachment of the plaster to the renovation, highlighting the absence of adequate precautions. The Rossis have started the civil case, asking for huge compensation. The opposing party disputes the accusations, speaking of pre-existing structural problems. A new conciliation attempt is set for January 2026.

“Ramazzotti destroyed my house but now he refuses to pay for the damages”

The newspaper reported the dispute The Truthin a long article also accompanied by images, entitled “Ramazzotti destroyed my house but now refuses to pay the damages”: the story, explains the newspaper, begins in October 2024 when Eros Ramazzotti purchased the apartment on the floor above Paolo Rossi’s, also moving his residence there. Immediately afterwards, write the auditor’s lawyers, Fabio Lepri and Salvatore Pino, the singer-songwriter starts playing “literally devastating work which seriously damaged the apartment below”.

Ramazzotti, we read above The Truthwould have “demolished and removed all the internal dividing walls, doors and systems and subsequently, in a couple of days, both the floors and the underlying screed were removed using both improper and massive use of pneumatic hammers”.

“Abnormal noise emissions and significant vibrations”

In addition to the inconveniences due to “abnormal noise emissions and significant vibrations”, the construction site would have caused “a collapse” in Rossi’s apartment, with a “detachment of the ceiling” in a part of the house. Since then the legal dispute began: according to Dr. Rossi, the initial willingness of Ramazzotti’s company to stop the works and check the damage was not maintained and the operations with the jackhammer continued even after the collapse. In the local police report it is reported that the removal of the floor upstairs “could have been the cause of the detachment of the ceiling to the detriment of the building below”, where the white and red tapes are now pulled to limit access to the “dangerous” area.

Eros’ lawyer: “The expert opinion is not admissible and cannot be shared also because it is generic”

The accident was contested against Ramazzotti and the contractor in January 2025. The artist’s lawyer, Antonio Cacciato, replied that the expert opinion is “in itself not admissible and not acceptable also because it is generic, formed unilaterally and not found, in support of (generic, broad and unsubstantiated) request for compensation, it shows an unmotivated aggressive approachwhich undoubtedly makes communication between the parties involved less easy”. This ends up in litigation. Rossi’s lawyers quantify the compensation “at over 200 thousand euros” and produce further reports in which the damages are attributable with certainty “to the renovation works” in the Ramazzotti house. For the artist, however, the blame for the collapse comes from “alleged hidden defects of the property”.

Gaetano Puglisi, Radiorama sole director: “Incomplete and misleading version, Ramazzotti has no responsibility”

“What we are learning from the press – he explains in a note Gaetano Puglisi, sole director of Radiorama, the production and management company founded by Eros Ramazzotti, is an incomplete and misleading version that it does not represent the situation in which the properties of Dr. Rossi and Ramazzotti find themselves who, to date, is the owner of the only unusable apartment in the building. The proceedings before the Court are ongoing and in this case In addition to Dr. Rossi and Ramazzotti, many other individuals are involvedprecisely to verify what and who is responsible for what happened.

According to our technicians, the damage that Dr. Rossi may have suffered amounts to a far and substantially lower amount as reported by the press headlines. Naturally, the technical consultant appointed by the Court will verify the objective amount, with a technical and balanced judgment in which he trusts. It is unfortunate that we are trying to draw conclusions, which only the ongoing trial will be able to give, taking advantage of the media coverage of the matter and thus continuing to make more difficult a dialogue for which Ramazzotti has always been available despite the total absence of his direct responsibilities”.

The hearing on January 19th for the conciliation attempt, technical reports by April

The Milanese judge Carlo Di Cataldo set the second conciliation attempt for January 19thwhile the technical consultant will have until February 9th to file the preliminary report and until April 10th for the final one. The parties will be able to file observations until March 11th. If only a song were enough, but it will be a battle of expertise.