"Don't Think It Pleases Me To Be A Cuckold In Front Of All Of You" — Mega-Rich Banker Uses Wedding Speech To Torch His Fianceé For Cheating On Him (and Brought the Receipts!)
DAILY MAIL — Italian high society has been left reeling after the wedding of a millionaire banker in Turin took a dark turn, when the groom accused his bride of cheating in a speech at the engagement party causing a huge public spat between the pair.
It's not often that one of the speeches steals the show at a wedding. Can you think of the last time you were all hungover checking out of the hotel and someone said "you know what absolutely killed last night? When the bride's best friend that nobody here has met referenced that inside joke from the summer they met at camp, after ten minutes of people yelling 'louder!' and her responding 'is this okay?'-'no we can't hear you in the back'-'how about now is this better?' with her lips pressed right up on the microphone so the feedback made everyone's eardrums bleed, until finally the groom's dad adjusted the height for her and we waited for her to stop crying." — "Good call dude but I liked the four sorority sisters who passed the phone up and down the line as they read one sentence at a time."
I bet you can't. Really the speeches are a nuisance. It's high-risk, no-reward. Are all the boring platitudes and banal anecdotes worth opening that little door of opportunity for your alcoholic friend on a post-divorce bender to reminisce about your bachelor party out loud into a microphone? What actually is there to gain? The stories? That if you're close enough to the couple, you know already, and if you're not, you wouldn't get even if for some reason you cared? It's a 30 minute slog at an inconvenient time that if you've seen once you've seen them all. Clap, toast to the grandparent who "couldn't be here tonight" because they're dead or dying, and then it's a beeline to the bar to desperately try to get that buzz back before it's time for the dance floor.
Attitudes like that are the reason why Massimo Segre's wedding this past weekend was so special — Massimo smashed through a brick wall like the Italian Kool-Aid Man, speech clutched in his fist. It's almost like he sensed some popular unrest bubbling up and felt it was up to him to build some of the hype back up and keep the tradition alive.
Mostly though I think he was just really pissed his fianceé was cheating on him, like a lot of times.
Massimo Segre, 64, gathered guests at his mansion in Turin, to celebrate his upcoming nuptials to Cristina Seymandi, 47.
But instead of the usual loving speech you may expect to hear about a bride-to-be, Massimo instead accused his future wife of cheating, to the shock of Torinese high society.
'Dear Cristina, I know how much you are in love with him mentally and sexually,' he added. 'And I know that before him you had a relationship with an industrialist acquaintance.'
Stunned, Cristina looks around the room of some 150 guests for support as her fiancé shares painful photos of his partner with another man.
'Don't think it pleases me to look like a cuckold in front of all of you,' Massimo then tells his friends, clearly devastated by his partner's alleged betrayal as the event goes silent. 'Cristina is so good at telling her truths, that I couldn't leave her alone to narrate the reason why I'm ending [our] life together tonight.
'It's a banal story of infidelity, even premarital. I am so disappointed,' he says. 'I am heartbroken.'
He then wishes her well, before telling her to go to Mykonos with her lover, as it is already paid for.
As soon as the speech finished, the lights dimmed and Massimo left the stage.
You can read the speech in full at the bottom of the blog — needless to say, it left the audience "stunned" and "staring in silence."
That audience, by the way, is not your typical wedding audience: these are members of Torinese "high society," some of the richest, fanciest, most important people in Italy—not the kind of people accustomed to finding a Powerpoint presentation of cuckoldry in the place where a speech on eternal love is supposed to be. The Italian media reported a large number of them feeling "annoyed" — not with the infidelity, I would confidently guess, but more likely with the dangerous precedent being set of publicly exposing affairs and mistresses.
Massimo couldn't give a shit less. They say love is a young man's game but Massimo's 64-year-old heart was open and vulnerable — its defenses down, making it all the more painful when the woman he loved fired a missile through it; her, and her Industrialist. He simply used the wedding he already paid for as his counter-strike. Fair, square.
If this were a movie, we'd cut from that image—Cristina frantically scanning the crowd, desperately seeking the support of someone, anyone—to Massimo's mic drop, follow him up the walkway to his house, and roll credits right as he gives a little fist pump to himself, for getting some of his pride back after the humiliating experience of betrayal.
If it was a just world, Cristina would write a letter apologizing for breaking his heart and wishing him the best in the future, both of them going their separate ways.
But this isn't a movie, and there's no justice in the world.
The internet crushed Massimo, they are burying him for being a piece of shit — for how he treated this poor woman, embarrassed her in public, in front of her friends, enforced the patriarchy.
But he's got bigger problems. Cristina Seymandi was writing a letter, but it wasn't an apology — it was to hire an adviser to run point on PR and start building a case to sue and press for charges for "reputational damage" and "trauma."
Speaking to The Times, Cristina's adviser said she will be taking legal action for 'reputational damage' against he former fiance. 'She has suffered very serious attacks on social media and threats from Italian citizens. It has been traumatic,' she said.
'The letter was read out in front of dozens of people and it was captured in a video that was sent to the newspapers. We don't think this was improvised.'
'Now I will consider whether to sue him,' she said.
Massimo categorically denies having published the video, let alone having allowed it to be filmed.
Cristina and this adviser have been tag-teaming this bitch since the first moment they found a microphone. It's incredible—Seymandi is 47 years old yet the way she manipulates language and says things that have no meaning whatsoever, it's like she developed the philosophy and wrote the textbook for Gen Z thought. Look at this display below — the sheer amount of woke mumbo-jumbo these two squeeze into their short statements; every sentence, precisely tailored to manipulate—gain sympathy, or trigger. It's a fucking clinic.
(Reminder: what you are about to read is about her fianceé breaking up with her for cheating on him and showing a few iPhone photos to 150 people as proof then wishing her the best and leaving. )
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Since the engagement party, a video taken by one of the guests has gone viral, leading to Cristina to become the subject of death threats.
In a letter to the director of the Zona Bianca TV news programme, Christina said Massimo had committed an act of 'psychological violence' and had 'meticulously planned his revenge'.
Speaking to the Times, Cristina's adviser said she will be taking legal action for 'reputational damage' against he former fiance.
'She has suffered very serious attacks on social media and threats from Italian citizens. It has been traumatic,' she described the put-down as a 'sexist lynching'.
She said: 'Two things hurt me, the end of a beautiful love story and the lynching in which Cristina it's been going on for days. A sexist, chauvinist, violent, horrendous lynching.
(As you consider just letting yourself die rather than live in a world where people talk like this about things like this, I will just sit here wondering how anyone with experiences of lynching in their family's history feels when they hear a lady equate racist murder with her rich friend being exposed for cheating on her banker fianceé with a big-shot lawyer to a crowd in black-tie at a Turin mansion with a combined net worth higher than the GDP of large countries.)
If they had any idea how offensive all this was, it wouldn't matter, because they wouldn't care—when words can be "violence" and proof of your deceitfulness is a "traumatic psychological lynching," nothing means anything at all. You can just say things, anything you can think up, and if you use the right code words, you can make anyone believe that a man should be sued and criminally charged for doing on an exponentially smaller scale what just last month was being praised as "empowering" and brave as websites made galleries and shared the funniest tweet reactions.
Full Speech:
'Tonight, I'd like to gift Cristina the freedom to love. To love a person, a known lawyer, who she clearly cares more for than me, and who I think managed to become obnoxious just to avoid slighting me.
'My dear Cristina, I know how in love you are, both mentally and sexually, how did you manage to self-confide? And I know that before him you had a relationship with a well-known industrialist.
'My dear friends, don't believe that this pleases me to be a cuckold in front of you all, but Cristina was so good at telling her truths that I couldn't leave it to her to tell the narrative of why I will be leaving her tonight.
'What did she say to her poor mother? Because the woman became afraid that her daughter was no longer safe to sleep with me. And so what did she say to all of you that drove away the truth? It's a banal story of infidelity, even premarital.
'I am very disappointed, heartbroken. I blame myself for not having understood how a woman can't really love you if a marriage puts you against your own children, with who I have painstakingly tried to recover a relationship that has deteriorated in these three years.
'My dear Cristina, go to Mykonos with your lawyer, be happy with him, you know it's all paid for, like how he paid for the trip to Vietnam with your daughter, a splendid young lady who I am very disappointed to have been involved in this situation.
'I confirm, if you want, when you return we could evaluate how to continue a professional collaboration, however our story ends today.
'I wish you happiness with your new partner and to continue shining in the world that you have done all these years. Sorry to you all and good night.
(Transcription via Daily Mail)