Antonia Dell'Atte files domestic abuse complaint against Alessandro Lecquio
In March 1991, Italian model Antonia Dell'Atte reported her then-husband, Alessandro Lecquio, for domestic abuse at a Madrid police station.
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On 9 March 1991, Antonia Dell'Atte, an Italian model living in Spain, went to the police station in Madrid's Chamberí district and filed a complaint of domestic abuse against her then-husband, the Spanish aristocrat and later television personality Alessandro Lecquio.
The complaint was made at a time when gender-based violence was rarely discussed in public in Spain and was often treated as a private family matter. Spain had no specific law on domestic violence yet, and reporting an abusive partner, especially one from a well-known social circle, carried a heavy personal and social cost.
The case became a media story because of the couple's public profile. Dell'Atte has since said that the complaint and its aftermath marked her professional and public image for years, and that she felt isolated by parts of the social and media world around her. The episode is the starting point of the long-running dispute over how she was treated at the time, including by figures from Spanish high-profile society, which resurfaced decades later in the exchange of public statements and apologies.
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