A year ago Rocco Siffredi was at the top — there was even a Netflix series about his life. Then Roberta Rei and the Italian investigative programme Le Iene started asking questions, and the Italian public began seeing a different version of him.
I've followed these allegations for a long time and covered them before. This is my read on what Le Iene uncovered, why it landed when it did, and what it means that it took a mainstream broadcaster to make anyone pay attention.