Top Italian influencer suspected of fraud in cake deal

The legal problems of Ferragni may not be over, however, with newspapers reporting that prosecutors have opened a separate investigation into a similar situation, in which the star promoted chocolate Easter eggs, saying their sale would support a children’s charity. — AFP

ROME: Italian Instagram star Chiara Ferragni is being investigated for fraud over a charity cake deal in which she suggested erroneously that sale proceeds would help children with bone cancer.

The fashion entrepreneur with 29.5 million Instagram followers is at the heart of a scandal surrounding her 2022 endorsement of a pandoro cake – a Christmas treat similar to a panettone – purportedly to raise funds for children undergoing treatment at a Turin hospital.