Porn Star Rocco Siffredi Sues Mediaset and Actresses Who Claimed He Engaged in Non-Consensual Sexual Practices

Global porn star Rocco Siffredi – whose life story inspired the Netflix series “Supersex” – is taking legal action against an investigative program aired by Italian broadcaster Mediaset and 16 aspiring porn actresses who have made on-camera allegations during the show that they were victims of non-consensual sexual practices on Siffredi’s part.

Siffredi, who has made roughly 1,400 hardcore films, officially retired from performing porn in 2022 though he continues to direct and produce adult movies. His Budapest-based Rocco Siffredi Production company, which houses the Siffredi Hard Academy, is touted as the world’s first “university of porn.”

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In the spring of 2025 the Mediaset show, called “Le Iene,” repeatedly aired segments featuring testimony from 16 young women who have attended the Siffredi Hard Academy and claimed that during their time in Budapest there had been on-set sexual misconduct by Siffredi.

Siffredi has responded to the “Le Iene” investigation by filing a defamation lawsuit in a Milan court against the program writers and producers and the 16 women, according to Italian new agency ANSA and other Italian press reports late on Thursday.

Siffredi and his legal team have filed a 200-page complaint in which they allegedly refute the allegations made by the women interviewed by “Le Iene.”

The Siffredi defence dossier reportedly includes many hours of footage from scenes filmed on set, as well as the actresses’ video consent releases, before and after the shoot, in which they allegedly state that everything took place consensually. The Milan court has opened a formal investigation.

Rocco Siffredi Production did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Variety.

“It’s been a difficult year, a year of suffering, especially for my family. But we still believe in justice!,” Siffredi commented on Instagram.

Below is the full statement issued on this matter by Mediaset:

“In the spring of 2025, “Le Iene” broadcast the testimonies of a series of women who reported alleged bullying, abuse, and violence they had suffered during their work in the adult entertainment industry. With them, we began to make some considerations on consent: a highly topical and globally debated topic.”

“We [have now] learned from several articles in major Italian newspapers of a defamation lawsuit that Mr. Rocco Tano had filed against our program and the women who reported alleged violence and abuse they had suffered, both on and off the set.”

“Le Iene,” then as now, are certain that they have acted with fairness, professionalism, and transparency, fully exercising their right to report on a story of clear public interest, especially in an era in which the vast majority of women still do not talk about or report the violence they have suffered out of fear.”

“We are surprised to note that news of this lawsuit – along with the version of events told by the man whom the women interviewed accused – is receiving more attention than the alleged victims’ accounts.”