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Gina Lollobrigida, 88, taught her toyboy boyfriend accused of marrying her in a fake wedding to say ‘let’s f***’ in Italian, he says as he rubbishes her claims they never had ѕех

Italian screen legend Gina Lollobrigida’s Spanish toyboy ‘husband’ has rubbished her court claims they never consummated the marriage she alleges was fake.

Businessman Javier Rigau, 54, said the first words the 88-year-old taught him in Italian translated as: ‘Let’s be together. Let’s f***.’

The soldier’s son hit out at the ageing screen siren, who ruled Hollywood in the fifties and sixties, after she told his fraud and forgery trial in Rome on Monday: ‘Even when we went travelling we slept in separate rooms and we never had intimate relations.’

Rigau, who Gina accuses of faking a bizarre proxy November 2010 wedding so he could get his hands on her fortune, told Spanish website Vanitatis: ‘It’s caused me great pain seeing Gina saying the things she has against our marriage.

‘I’ve seen a person who doesn’t resemble physically or mentally the one I had at my side for years.’

Recalling an October 2006 interview they gave to Spain’s Hola! magazine announcing their engagement where Gina revealed the love between them was followed by passion, he added: ‘Although we always spoke in French, the first words she taught me when I was very young in Italian were: ‘Siamo in sieme, andiamo a scopare’ which means, “let’s be together, let’s f***”.

‘If I say how old she was when she went to bed with me, I wouldn’t show her in a good light.’

Lollobrigida has gone on the attack in Italy after a Spanish court closed its probe into allegations Rigau attempted to swindle his former partner through a proxy marriage at a civil ceremony in Barcelona.

She claims he tricked her into signing a power of attorney document following years of dating which Rigau says started when they met at a party in Monte Carlo in 1984 when he was 23 and Lollobrigida was 57.

Javier, on trial on charges of forgery and fraud, has denied swindling his former partner and claims she willingly consented to the marriage but wanted to keep it quiet to avoid publicity.

If he is found guilty, Gina will be entitled to receive damages from him and to apply for the marriage to be annulled.

Rigau, who was in court to hear his ex-partner claim they never had ѕех, is expected to reveal on Monday if he will give evidence in the ongoing case.

He insisted ahead of its resumption he was confident of clearing his name.

‘This case will end up being archived in Italy like it was in Spain,’ Rigau said. ‘I’m not at all worried after it was shown in Spain that the marriage was valid.

Actress Gina Lollobrigida arrives at the Odeon Theatre in Leicester Square in this 1955 photograph
Actress Gina Lollobrigida arrives at the Odeon Theatre in Leicester Square in this 1955 photograph

‘Gina’s testimony was full of contradictions. I was saddened at seeing her so bad.’

Rigau has previously claimed the actress denied knowledge of their wedding after coming under the influence of new manager Andrea Piazzolla.

In 2008 he was awarded £15,000 in damages after successfully suing Spanish state broadcaster TVE for libel following a programme suggesting he surrounded himself with older women and referring to rumours he was a gigolo.

He insisted in a February 2013 UK newspaper interview: ‘Gina and I married for love and despite everything I still love her very much.’

Lollobrigida, who had a string of film hits with the likes of Errol Flynn, Frank Sinatra and Yul Brynner, has a fortune estimated at £35 million.

Humphrey Bogart, who starred with Gina in her first Hollywood film ‘Beat The Devil’ in 1953, once said of her: ‘She makes Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.’

Gina Lollobrigida as Lola in the 1956 film Trapeze, alongside Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis
Gina Lollobrigida as Lola in the 1956 film Trapeze, alongside Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis

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