Defamation campaign against Ayrton Senna and his family in Internet led by three Brazilian people

Adriane Galisteu, a Brazilian model, revealed that Ayrton Senna paid her to accompany him 24 hours a day in 1993 and 1994

At the end of the year 2011, three Brazilian people, fans of brazilian model and TV presenter, Adriane Galisteu, started a defamation campaign on the Internet, aimed to attack the family of Ayrton Senna. The names of these three people are Henrique Carlos Nunes, his wife Wania Dias Nunes and a young guy named Cleber Deon. These people run a fanpage on Facebook named Senna Vive and a blog named ayrtonsennavive.blogspot.com and are responsible for some very serious defamations against the family Senna. They have committed so far crimes that go against the Brazilian law as defamation, prejudice to a registered trademark, libel,  threats and insults, who are currently under investigation, after having been reported to the Instituto Ayrton Senna.

They seem especially obsessed with Viviane Senna and apparently they are  jealous of all the money the Senna family has.

Cleber Deon, spreads libellous fake stories on the Internet about Ayrton Senna and the Senna family

The family of Ayrton Senna have always been very rich, his father, Milton da Silva being a successful businessman who started to create his wealth within the automotive sector. Later on, he started owning lands and working in agriculture.

The sister of Ayrton Senna, Viviane Senna, to whom Ayrton was very attached, presides now the Instituto Ayrton Senna in Brazil, a charity organization whose aim is to help underprivileged children all over Brazil. It was a dream of Ayrton Senna, which he shared with his sister at the very end of his life, about 2 months before dying. After his untimely death in Imola, San Marino, Italy, in a horrible car crash while he was leading the race driving the Williams FW16B, the family of Ayrton Senna had to give continuity to his legacy through one of his most cherish projects: helping poor children in Brazil, a country particularly affected by the poverty and the crime.

These three people, Henrique Carlos Nunes, his wife Wania Dias Nunes and a third guy named Cleber Deon, have become obsessed with Adriane Galisteu in 2011, as it is proven by their Twitter accounts, where they contact Galisteu, and have since then orchestrated a campaign of public defamation against the family of Ayrton Senna, and Senna himself. The reason? The Senna family didn't allow Adriane Galisteu to take the spotlight at Ayrton Senna's funeral. In good reason, because Adriane Galisteu had talked to the press already and agreed with them to sell several interviews about her, talking about Senna, and so she needed to be in pictures of Senna's funeral. The Senna family anticipating these actions of a woman, who they never liked, because they considered she was using their son for the money, didn't want to  her to take profit of that situation and didn't allow her to be in full spotlight at the funeral. Knowing that Adriane Galisteu didn't respect the memory of the dead man and sold Senna's private life in a books and dozens of press interviews only few weeks after his death, the family's attitude is more than understandable, even to say it was the only possible attitude to take.

Already previously the Senna family considered Adriane as being a gold-digger in serach for the money of their beloved son and admired national idol, Ayrton Senna. Adriane Galisteu, an unknown model from Sao Paulo, had been chosen by one of the friends of Senna, banker Antonio Carlos de Almeida Braga - Braguinha, at the Grand Prix of Brazil 1993.

Banker Antonio Carlos de Almeida - Braguinha, a friend of Ayrton Senna, who picked Adriane Galisteu

Senna was going through a very hard time in 1993, both in his professional life and his personal life, as his love relationship with Xuxa, a Brazilian TV show woman,  the love of his life, was impossible at that moment due to their very busy professional careers, and he needed company 24 hours a day. He needed, as he would say later "to separate his professional from his private life" in 1993. He had wanted to drive for the Williams team that year, but the veto imposed by Alain Prost to him that year, had made it impossible. Senna was suffering. He needed a stable private sexual life, as sex for him "helped him relax before races" but he didn't want to have the crazy and unstable life that he had already had the previous year, 1992, another very hard year for him. And there comes Adriane Galisteu, a young woman, still with no personal life or career, since she wasn't very successful as a model (according to her own book about Senna, written in 1994, she didn't have many deals when she met Senna) without an important career, ready to give up to her (few) professional commitments in exchange for the money that Senna paid her to accompany him 24 hours a day, everywhere. She ended up being his assistant (doing the shopping for him and his brother in Sao Paulo, according to her book), his masseuse, his nurse when he was sick... In exchange, he treated her with some distance, refused to name her in public interviews in the press or on TV, almost forgot about her birthday in 1994 and declared to the press, shortly before dying in 1994, that he wasn't going to marry Galisteu and that he hadn't found yet the right woman for him. He also asked Cristine Ferraciu, an ex.girlfriend, to be back together, as he still missed her and considered her the right woman to marry.

These three people, led by the hatred they feel against the family of Ayrton Senna, who only defended their son from the greed of Adriane Galisteu, have set up several YouTube channels, a Facebook page and a blog, where they regularly insult the Senna family, defame them and make up fake stories about Senna and Galisteu, going so far to modifiy copyrighted pictures of the magazine Caras from Brazil, where in April 1994, Ayrton Senna stated that he wasn't thinking about marrying Adriane Galisteu, because she was not the right woman for him. These three people are associated to other people named Linda Danton, Bev Wright, who create fake identities in social media to spread lies. 

The truth is that there was no marriage whatsoever planned by Senna with Galisteu: on the contrary, he was not happy with her at the end of his life and he planned to break up with her, being that the interview he gave to the brazilian magazine, Caras, a gossip magazine, was the first step he would take in order to break up with her. He had been embarassed a couple of months before by some almost nude pictures of Adriane for the same magazine, Caras, and didn't like what he saw in her. Josef Leberer, his best friend in the Formula 1 circuits, as it is stated in all biographies of Senna, had said after his death "'It is not for me to say,' said Leberer, 'but there were reservations of Ayrton over Adriane, yes.' 

These people have created almost 100 different fake profiles on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, like Bianca Sodi (which is the name that shows most often in the retweets of the Twitter profile of Adriane Galisteu - maybe these people are even working for her, are paid by her -) and have made up fake stories such as Ayrton had given an engagement ring to Adriane Galisteu only 3 weeks after meeting her in 1993 (false), that he had asked her to have children (false, Galisteu herself denied that in 1994, even after Senna died), that Ayrton Senna was going to marry Adriane Galisteu (false, Senna gave an interview just a month before dying to the Brazilian edition of Caras to state exactly the opposite: he didn't want to marry Adriane, he didn't mention her a single time and said he hadn't found yet the right woman for him), that Ayrton Senna died without a last will (false, he updated his will regularly, several times a year, since he knew his profession was dangerous) because obviously, Senna didn't leave any money to Adriane Galisteu, which shows his true feelings.

Also these Brazilian people try to imply that the Instituto Ayrton Senna, a charity organization  who has helped 11 millions children in Brazil so far, is a scam, and that Viviane Senna is stealing money from the donations. 

HENRIQUE CARLOS NUNES

WANIA DIAS NUNES
CLEBER DEON
BEV WRIGHT
LINDA DANTON
ENZO MARENGHI
TIAGO ARAGAO

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Sylvester Stallone in the FW16B Williams, GP Italy, 1994/09/11

Sylvester Stallone in the Williams FW16B, GP Italy, 11-09-1994. Next to him, David Coutlhard, appointed as the replacement of Senna for the 1994 season, acting as the PR host

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Ayrton Senna and his girlfriend Cristine Ferraciu at the go-kart circuit in Tatui, Brazil, 1991

Ayrton Senna and his girlfriend, Cristine Ferraciu, at the opening of his go-kart circui in Tatui, Brazil, December 1991

Cristine Ferracciu was just 17 when she met Ayrton Senna for the first time. Typical girl of the young elite of Rio de Janeiro, she was the granddaughter of an Italian family and daughter of Admiral Ferracciu Edson, former military attaché in Brazil.

She remembered that the very same year she met Ayrton in 1985, he warned her:

"- You can get married but one day you'll be mine, no matter if you are married, separated or a widow."

The warning became true when she lived with Ayrton between January 1990 and December 1991. Ayrton confessed to be fascinated by her. He used to say to his friends that he considered himself married to Cristine. He even told that to Xuxa on the phone once when she called him from Brazil.

Cristine ended the relationship in December 1991 because he didn't want her to go back to Brazil to take care of her mother, sick with cancer... Christine didn't like his selfish attitude. Months later, in 1994, when she was already in another relationship, Ayrton asked her to go back with him (he was dating Adriane Galisteu at the time but got disapointed by the attitude of the young model since he realized from her pictures in the brazilian press, that she wanted him for the fame).

Senna said about Cristine Ferraciu in 1994, after he took the decision to break up with Adriane Galistue: "You [Cristine] and A. Yamin have been the only two women worth marrying."

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Ayrton Senna's only Pole Position in 1993 with Mclaren

1993 McLaren Ford 1 pole

Once again faced with a magnificent display by Williams, Senna had very little chance to shine. His sole pole came right at the end of the season. After Michael Andretti was dropped from McLaren, having been further off Senna’s pace than his other team-mates had been, he was replaced by the young Mika Häkkinen, who promptly out-qualified Senna in their first race together at Estoril. Senna was rattled and maybe this new challenge was what drove him to pole two races later.


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Podium Grand Prix France 1991 - Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna

What an amazing group of people... some better than others. It happened at the F1 circuit of Formula 1 in France, Magny Cours, in 1991. Nigel Mansell won the race for Williams-Renault , with Alain Prost in second place driving for Ferrari and Ayrton Senna, collecting points in the third position, for Mclaren Honda.

In the front row, we have the President of the FISA, with a Nazi past, Jean Marie Balestre, and the President of France, François Miterrand.

This all happened in 1991. Good times.

The French GP had been moved to Magny-Cours for the first time which was not a popular move. The lack of local facilities was the main grievance, there being not enough hotels, and people having to drive for hours to get to the area. The system of pre-qualifying was developed in response to the increasing number of teams competing in Formula 1. It was decided that 30 cars were the maximum safe limit to compete for 26 grid places. The cars which had to pre-qualify were decided at the beginning and the midpoint of each season. The 26 cars which had achieved the best results in the previous two-half seasons automatically entered official qualifying for the race. All the other cars had to pre-qualify for the 4 remaining slots available for official qualifying. Those that failed to pre-qualify just went home.

Riccardo Patrese took his third consecutive pole position in his Williams while Ayrton Senna pushed hisMcLaren so hard that he lost control at the final corner and crossed the line while spinning into the wall. He was still third behind Alain Prost's Ferrari and ahead of Nigel Mansell's Williams. The top four were separated by only three-tenths of a second. Gerhard Berger (McLaren) was fifth with Ferrari's Jean Alesi sixth and then the two Benettons of Nelson Piquet and Roberto Moreno. The top 10 was completed by Mauricio Gugelmin'sLeyton House and Gianni Morbidelli in his Minardi-Ferrari.

From left to right, back row: picking his nose, Alain Prost for Ferrari, Nigel Mansell for Williams-Renault, Ayrton Senna for McLarenHonda
Front row: FISA President -Nazi Jean Marie Balestre, President of France - François Miterrand

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Ron Dennis, McLaren's Team Principal, in his youth

In those times, even Ron Dennis had hair!

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Ayrton Senna is better than Sebastian Vettel

No doubt about that... even Sebastian Vettel acknowledges it

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Views about sex ... by Ayrton Senna

Interview Playboy 1990: Are you bothered by sex before races?

Senna: On the contrary. It’s good for me. I can face the race more relaxed. 


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Juan Manuel Fangio and Bruce McLaren observing one of the McLaren's engines

Juan Manuel Fangio, 5 time Formula 1 World Champion and Bruce McLaren, founder of the F1 team of the same name

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Senna was just unbelievably fast

Monaco 1988 - Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost drive their McLarens past the finish line

The thing about Senna was that he was just unbelievably fast. Really, inhumanely fast. His car control was incredible. In terms of being able to control a car, control exactly where it went, drive absolutely at the limit of what was possible; he was the best at that. There are many ways to measure a racing driver, and you can’t really say one was just, simply the best because there are so man variables involved and it depends on the day and the track and the situation. That said, Senna is notable for his prodigious ability to actually drive a car at speed. I’ve heard before that if the fate of the world depended on a car race, and you had anybody through all of human history to choose from to drive for us; Senna would be perhaps the wisest choice.

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