Italian woman loses 11-yr claim against husband for £40k over bad sex life
An Italian woman has lost her battle to claim €50,000 (£40,000) in compensation from her ex-husband for what she said was a disastrous sex life, after an 11-year legal battle.
The 50-year-old woman claimed in court that her husband, also aged 50, was so hopeless in bed that during their 12-year of marriage she had remained “technically a virgin”.
She demanded €50,000 in damages to compensate for the disappointment and distress.
But after grinding its way through several levels of the Italian justice system for more than a decade, the case has finally been thrown out by an appeals tribunal in Macerata, in the Marche region of central Italy.
Since the case began over a decade ago the couple, who are from the coastal town of Civitanova in the Marche, have divorced.
The court has now ruled that the ex-husband did not have to pay his former wife a penny in compensation.
Instead, it ordered the woman, identified only as Anna in Italian press reports, to pay €5,000 toward his legal costs.
Her husband strongly disputed her account of their dismal sex life.
He told the court that he had had “a mild anatomical problem” before they married but that it had been rectified through surgery.
He claimed that it was in fact his wife who created the problems in the bedroom because she refused to have sex.
In the eyes of the court, the final blow for the woman was the fact that after they divorced, her ex-husband found a new partner and had two children with her, suggesting that his sexual dysfunction was a thing of the past.
The 50-year-old woman claimed in court that her husband, also aged 50, was so hopeless in bed that during their 12-year of marriage she had remained “technically a virgin”.
She demanded €50,000 in damages to compensate for the disappointment and distress.
But after grinding its way through several levels of the Italian justice system for more than a decade, the case has finally been thrown out by an appeals tribunal in Macerata, in the Marche region of central Italy.
Since the case began over a decade ago the couple, who are from the coastal town of Civitanova in the Marche, have divorced.
The court has now ruled that the ex-husband did not have to pay his former wife a penny in compensation.
Instead, it ordered the woman, identified only as Anna in Italian press reports, to pay €5,000 toward his legal costs.
Her husband strongly disputed her account of their dismal sex life.
He told the court that he had had “a mild anatomical problem” before they married but that it had been rectified through surgery.
He claimed that it was in fact his wife who created the problems in the bedroom because she refused to have sex.
In the eyes of the court, the final blow for the woman was the fact that after they divorced, her ex-husband found a new partner and had two children with her, suggesting that his sexual dysfunction was a thing of the past.
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