Italian Wikimedians are reporting that Wikimedia Italia (the Italian local chapter) and former chapter president (and former Wikimedia board member) Frieda Brioschi are being sued for an outrageous sum over alleged defamation in a (now-deleted) biography on Italian Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gianfranco/Wikimedia_Italia_sued_for_20,00...
-Sage