Maria Rosaria Boccia, Gennaro Sangiuliano’s former lover, said she was nominated as an unpaid adviser last month
The Italian culture minister quit on Friday after a controversy over a consultancy role for his former lover had become an embarrassment for prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government.
Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, had faced a media storm since Maria Rosaria Boccia, a self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur, said last month she had been nominated “adviser to the minister for major events”.