Strange affair of Mrs Firth and her ‘stalker’
AND now to the strange affair of Livia Firth and her former lover, Marco Brancaccia. The wife of actor Colin Firth has dropped stalking charges against Marco in Italy, preventing details of their year-long affair in 2016 being revealed in court. Is this nasty business over at last? Poor Mr Darcy must be hoping so! After the affair ended, she reported her lover to the police, claiming he sent a compromising photo to her husband. He denied stalking and had been keen to ‘clear his name’ in court, but the Firths did not want any private details seeping into the public domain. Either Marco was motivated by revenge, or Livia was so horrified that her affair had been discovered that she threw her lover to the wolves in a bid to save her own skin. I simply cannot believe that a woman who has so many of the world’s eco concerns close to her heart would stoop so low. This week she was at the Maison Margiela show, where John Galliano’s models wore pink plastic hats in a look described as ‘neo-digital natives’. Livia was impressed: ‘It reminded me of a phrase I saw on a wall recently: “We are all refugees.” And through this nomadic sense we can all go online/offline and be inspired by “the other”, each one with its own baggage.’ What? Perhaps she’s just overwhelmed with relief that she is not going to court any more.