It’s been 13 years since Pietro Lombardi became known through the RTL program “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”. In 2011 he won the eighth season of the casting show. And not only that: he also found his wife in runner-up Sarah Engels. For five years, Lombardi and Engels were considered the music industry’s dream couple; they appeared on stage together and gave insights into their private lives in TV documentaries. Until the messy separation in autumn 2016. At that time there was a police operation in one of the couple’s apartments. There were allegations of domestic violence, and Engels filed a report.
Eight years later, there are again allegations of violence against Pietro Lombardi. A police operation took place in the house he lives in with his fiancée Laura Maria Rypa in Cologne. The 28-year-old was treated at the Cologne University Hospital. In a joint statement, the couple said: “The press is trying to aggravate the conflict even more and often doesn’t take certain statements very seriously. We don’t want that, so we won’t give it a platform here and will act in the interests of our children , so the public is kept out.”
Lombardi’s lawyer said: “There were differences of opinion that were associated with insults on both sides. There was also mutual touching as part of this emotional argument.” He denied the accusation of domestic violence.
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Source: Stern
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