Legal Issues
In 1980 he was found guilty of manslaughter for a car accident in which he was the driver; three passengers lost their lives.
In 2003 he negotiated a libel suit for defamation filled against him by Rita Levi-Montalcini. During a show Beppe Grillo called the 94 years old woman Nobel prize in Medicine winner "old whore".
During his shows Grillo never hesitates to name firms and personalities he considers corrupt, always supporting his views with data and documents. For this reason he has been sued several times for libel by many people and organizations which he had exposed, such as Telecom Italia.
When Italian judges were investigating the Parmalat scandal, which was then the world's largest corporate bankruptcy scandal, Grillo was called to testify as he anticipated the imminent collapse of the dairy conglomerate in one of his shows. When he was asked by judges how he has been able to discover that, he simply said that Parmalat's financial holes were so evident that anybody who had enough ability to see them would see them, since the corporate accounting was easily accessible.
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