As the political controversy heats up with the Democratic Party questioning whether “the G7 of culture in Pompeii is still safe” and the 5 Star Movement asking “when will there be a jolt of dignity from the Meloni-Sangiuliano duo?”, the mystery of the ghost job assigned to the elusive advisor of the Minister of Culture revolves around this forty-one-year-old woman from Pompeii.
The very blonde Maria Rosaria Boccia, a fashion entrepreneur, in an interview with agenzistampaitalia.it on March 10, 2021, and published yesterday by Dagospia, describes herself as “stubborn, I don’t give up easily and I always seek the best.”
She goes on to explain: “I grew up in a family that instilled in me the values of responsibility and the autonomy of choice. My parents have always been in the clothing industry, focusing on quality and major fashion houses, following a policy that has always met the taste and approval of a wide clientele.”
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And she has already established herself as a person skilled in contacts and PR: “In recent years, I have traveled a lot as an ambassador of Italian fashion in the world. I have received awards at the European Parliament, served special clients in the East and in Paris, and closely followed my activities in Rome and Milan. I also had the honor of dressing the Rai orchestra for the Christmas concert in the Vatican and numerous characters on Mediaset, Rai, and international TV networks, even at very prominent events.”
Lastly, she elaborates on her collaborations: “I collaborate with various Italian universities where I teach marketing courses in the fashion field and enthusiastically offer my know-how to various public training centers within the framework of European projects. It is truly very rewarding to share some of my knowledge with young people who dream of creating unique and precious clothing items.”
Gennaro Sangiuliano and Maria Rosaria Boccia, Meloni asks the minister for explanations about the suspicious email
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But the “big break” for her comes when she meets the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano. “I am his advisor for Major Events” she boasts in her Instagram stories, but the ministry denies it. The position promised by Sangiuliano is dismissed by the ministry’s cabinet because the woman’s CV is deemed inadequate. But she doesn’t give up and publishes a flurry of images showing her with the minister on various institutional occasions, from the Taobuk festival in Taormina to the Libro Possibile in Polignano a Mare, from the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan to the handover of the keys of Pompeii to Sangiuliano.
Afterward, she posts stories in which she asserts her version of events, focusing particularly on the Mic staff who denied ever having met her and on her exclusion from work WhatsApp chats during vacations.
A mystery also surrounds the photo of her inside the ministry on Ferragosto. The staff denies her presence, but what was she doing in those offices then?