UPDATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS: how divorce bill promoter Pullicino Orlando betrayed his new wife with her maid of honour’s sister, who is now his mistress
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando with his second wife of just one year, Carmen nee Ciantar (left) and the woman with whom he betrayed her, Hal Ghaxaq hairdresser Mariella Mifsud, whose sister is Carmen’s best friend and was maid of honour at their wedding in August last year
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando photographed arriving at a Rabat pastizzi shop between 4am and 5am on Sunday, 4 August this past summer, with Mariella Mifsud. She drove him away in her car after the notorious brawl that occurred, in which the Law Commissioner also featured.
Amanda Mifsud and Michael Farrugia with the Prime Minister and Mrs Muscat
Amanda Mifsud (extreme left) in her role as maid of honour to Carmen Pullicino Orlando (centre, in bridal gown) at her marriage to Jeffrey in August last year. Mariella Mifsud is standing right next to the bride with her arm around her, in the mauve dress.
Amanda Mifsud uploads a picture of herself with Carmen Pullicino Orlando on Facebook and captions it “me and my best friend having fun at Gillieru”. Her sister has since been discovered to have been cheating on that best friend with her husband.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando celebrating the Labour victory with Michael Farrugia, parliamentary secretary for MEPA, at Medasia in Gzira last March. That was the day Muscat was sworn in as prime minister, and Pullicino Orlando is still wearing his orange trousers. Michael Farrugia’s long-term girlfriend and Pullicino Orlando’s new mistress are Amanda Mifsud and Mariella Mifsud.
Carmen Pullicino Orlando (right) with Amanda Mifsud, her best friend and maid of honour at her wedding to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando last year. Pullicino Orlando cheated on Carmen with Amanda’s sister.
Carmen Pullicino Orlando (right) with Mariella Mifsud, the woman with whom Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando betrayed her
Mariella Mifsud and Amanda Mifsud (second and third from right) at the wedding of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando to Carmen Ciantar in August last year. Before the year was out, Jeffrey was having an affair with Mariella.
Amanda Mifsud and Michael Farrugia celebrating the Labour victory in March
Carmen Ciantar and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando on their wedding day in August last year – a full white wedding for a woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s, both of whom were divorced and with adult children. Before the year was out, he had betrayed her already with one of her closest and most trusted friends.
Carmen Pullicino Orlando (white jacket) and Amanda Mifsud (pink jacket) at a Labour mass meeting with Michael Farrugia, Labour policemen-turned-lawyers Vince Micallef and Andy Ellul, and their girlfriends.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s mistress, Mariella Mifsud (left) at the Pullicino Orlando wedding a year ago with Michael Farrugia’s girlfriend, Amanda Mifsud. The bride considered them to be her two closest friends.
Mariella Mifsud (left) and Amanda Mifsud at the Pullicino Orlando wedding last year
Michael Farrugia and Amanda Mifsud on their way to the Pullicino Orlando wedding in Rabat in August last year, where she was maid of honour to the bride
Mariella Mifsud (left) who Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando pursued for some considerable time before meeting with success, with Amanda Mifsud
Amanda Mifsud, long-term girlfriend of parliamentary secretary Michael Farrugia, in a remarkable evening gown
Less than one year after marrying his second wife, Carmen nee Ciantar, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is already seeing another woman and this is the reason his new wife has left the marital home. The reason Pullicino Orlando gave for bringing the divorce bill before parliament and forcing it through, two years ago, was that they both needed to divorce their original spouses to marry each other after living together for around a decade.
The woman in question is Mariella Mifsud, a hairdresser who owns a salon called Hair Mania in her native village of Hal Ghaxaq.
Pullicino Orlando got to know Miss Mifsud better (she used to date married Nationalist MP Stephen Spiteri for several years, and he knew her then, but Spiteri is now reconciled with his wife) through Carmen, now Mrs Pullicino Orlando.
Mariella Mifsud’s sister, Amanda Mifsud, is Mrs Pullicino Orlando’s best friend and was maid of honour at her second wedding, to Pullicino Orlando, in August last year.
Amanda Mifsud is the long-term mistress of married (but long separated from his wife) Labour politician Michael Farrugia, the parliamentary secretary responsible for the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA). After Labour was elected to government last March, Amanda Mifsud was given a job at Malta Freeport.
Her sister Mariella is the woman with whom Pullicino Orlando was photographed arriving at the pastizzi shop in Rabat, Is-Serkin, between 4am and 5am on Sunday, 4 August this last summer, after a night out which began with attending the August Moon Ball with his wife.
He was driven away from Is-Serkin, after the brawl that occurred there in which the Law Commissioner also featured, by Miss Mifsud in her car. This occurred just a week before his and Mrs Pullicino Orlando’s first wedding anniversary, 11 August.
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You messed around, Jeff, and she caught you out – with her best friend’s sister. HOWZAT.
I would not be the least surprised if JPO now drives his Labour MP ‘brother-in-law’ to bring a bill before parliament for the legalisation of the status of concubines.
These people have redefined the meaning of switching.
Perhaps Frederick Testa can commission a new teledramm for PBS: The Switchers.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.
Do I detect that we are getting closer to the MEPA permit for the Mistra valley development?
Hasn’t MEPA already issued the permit for the MISTRA Village development? Or do I see a misguided connection between the two MISTRA developments?
So much for his “our family is going through a hard time and I’m sure you’ll find it in you to leave us alone” bullshit.
Where are you, H. P. Baxxter? We want at least three chapters of a novella, at once.
I’m busy taking it all in. Niehu go fija, as it were.
Michael Farrugia and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, showing that they have something in common.
‘They have something common you mean’
We will soon see him crying in public again seeking forgiveness. What a tosser.
Maybe I got this wrong, but didn’t Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando claim that the person accompanying him when the Rabat fight broke out was of a “Nationalist persuasion”?
[Daphne – Yes. Mariella Mifsud calls herself a Nationalist because she slept with Nationalist MP Stephen Spiteri. Meanwhile, her sister sleeps with Labour MP Michael Farrugia and calls herself Labour.]
One starts to think that the lines between Socialist and Christian Democrat in Malta are obscure indeed.
Do they use red or blue condoms that upon use somehow change their lovers’ political persuasion? Is our parliament one big orgy of ignorance with a good dose of swinging thrown in for good measure?
I think we need a bit more political purity to prevail otherwise we are soon going to have no one to vote for. La politica è davvero un bordello.
Hemm xi wahda tithajjar tivvota Alternattiva?
Kieku mur ara Cacopardo bla suf.
Inhalltu u naqsmu. Din hija l-klikka l-gdida tal-labour. Min ihawwad l-iktar, u povri l-Maltin serji li qed jaraw il-pajjiz li tant ihobbu sejjer lejn id-dizastru socjali u morali ta’ ftit zibel li kienu xi haga u issa rashom kibret u qed jaraw lil kulhadd dubbien.
Mhux dejjem hekk kienu?
Daqs kemm halltu u qasmu fi zmien Mintoff. Biss biss xandir Malta kien qisu burdell.
Could it be one of the reasons why our country is always in such a mess/
Everyone seems to be sleeping with somebody. Mariella with Spiteri,Her sister with Farrugia, Jeffrey with all of them
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It even happened to Napoleon, He slept in so many different places that he must have spent all his time in Malta in bed.
Ofcourse I could mention some more, but I’m afraid I might wake them.
In closing I feel I must congratulate Dr.Jeffery for his choice, she looks really nice but so CHEAP.
Could it be one of the reasons why our country is always in such a mess/
Everyone seems to be sleeping with somebody. Mariella with Spiteri,Her sister with Farrugia, Jeffrey with all of them
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It even happened to Napoleon, He slept in so many different places that he must have spent all his time in Malta in bed.
Ofcourse I could mention some more, but I’m afraid I might wake them.
In closing I feel I must congratulate Dr.Jeffery for his choice, she looks really nice but so CHEAP. and so dumb but I must accept that at the end of the day it’s Pussies who are ruling the world’
Could it be The Year Of The Pussies..
Lately they’ve been spending time in a friend’s flat in Mellieha – well it’s mostly nights. In the morning Michael Farrugia’s driver waits just outside the flat for his master and girlfriend.
Disgraceful is too mild a word to describe such behaviour.
I agree.
The word is “sleaze”.
Sleaze is too kind. I’d go for “amoral”.
Why is it that Maltese woman are rather pretty but most Maltese men are, shall we say, not so eye-catching?
Come on Sister ray you must surely know that women are judged by their looks but men by their Bank Account.
Remember that 1980s TV series called ‘Dallas’?
How about a Maltese version called ‘Hal Ghaxaq’?
Exactly what are these people? No standards whatsoever.
Marrying Carmen did not get him close enough to acquiring that Mistra building permit.
Maybe bedding somebody even closer to the MEPA boss will help.
What disgraceful and scandalous behaviour. And there was I thinking that the Medical Council had some sort of ethical rules governing the public behaviour of its more prominent members.
Relevant observation.
Religion aside, this is precisely why I voted against divorce in the last referendum.
Families are breaking apart with resulting mayhem. People having children from different partners and living with yet other different people. This has happened for ages and will continue to happen.
However divorce is just a way to make all this legal and easier to achieve. It just facilitates chaos and throws marriage in the mix where the couple can demonstrate their silliness even further by having an extravagant and chavtastic wedding.
What hypocrisy.
Families don’t break apart because legislation permits it. Families break apart because some people are arseholes.
Jidher li Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando muhiex it-tip li jixba bi pastizz wiehed biss.
I’ve known Carmen for many years and surely she doesn’t deserve any of this! Shame on you, Jeffrey! Isthi (jekk taf kif)!
She did get what she deserved. After all it is self-inflicted pain jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
Not even the street cat and the street mouse grant their favours at short notice. They take their time to get acquainted, get to know who their Prince Charming is and only then do they consent with the infamous YES I DO.
The least one would have expected is a decent period of courtship. Come to think of it was she misled when JPO put up the divorce private member bill? Was she living the WALLIS SIMPSON dream thinking that her George would give up his throne to marry her?
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando: literalment traditur.
Franco, Mariella u Amanda huma mir-rahal.
Ghalhekk GHAXQUHA. ISBAH DIN. TRID TQUN GHAXQI BIEX TGHAXAQHA ?
Gerald James Borg should start planning his second sassy book – Hal Ghaxaq Hens and Cocks.
Regardless of whether we voted for or against divorce in the referendum, doesn’t it bring a sour taste to the mouth when we realize the kind of person who led us through a Kafkaesque farce of endless discussion and controversy about it?
And what makes it worse was his posturing that he was fighting for civil liberties when his intentions were in fact even baser than any of us dreamed of. He led us all a merry dance and got exactly what he wanted. But now look at him. WAS it exactly what he wanted? It looks like it wasn’t, because the price he had to pay for humiliating Gonzi with that divorce bill was having to marry a woman he didn’t really want to marry at all, or losing face and looking like an idiot if he didn’t.
Lawrence Gonzi was severely criticized for voting according to his conscience; given that he probably knew more about the filth going on behind the facade than any of us did, I think that his conscience was not supported only by his moral stance, but also by full knowledge of the scum we were dealing with.
Gonzi’s conscience is irrelevant. Pullicino Orlando’s posturing was deceitful, but divorce legislation was long overdue.
Whether divorce legislation was overdue or not is irrelevant to my argument.
I don’t like being led by the nose to serve the purposes of this creature no matter how justified (or not) his case might be.
In other words the end doesn’t justify the means. Even for those who got the legislation they wanted, I’m sure it must rankle knowing li paxxewh dan iz-zibel.
Divorce legislation was not introduced for Pullicino Orlando’s exclusive use.
Exactly ; so for you the end justifies the means . This line of reasoning sounds precisely like that of Muscat re his sale of citizenship scheme . I would definitely never make a deal with the devil , no matter how attractive the bait .
Jigifieri jekk jiddivorzaw u jergghu jizzewwgu, Carmen toqghodilha bridesmaid?
DALLAS -THE WALMART VERSION
Except in Malta, we would call it the Lidl version.
Well done Dr.Jeffrey, she is really pretty but she looks so CHEAP, I really hope her choice of culture is not visits to Junk Yards
Pullicino Orlando seems determined to sleep his way ever closer to a Mistra permit. He should cut the crap and the intermediaries, go straight to the top and bed Michael Farrugia.
Yes, but he still has to ask permission to carry out internal alterations.
Mhux fier.
Does it not occur to Pullicino Orlando that he is bringing the Malta Council of Science and Technology into disrepute, and that he has become a liability to that organisation?
Obviously not.
Does he care? Obviously not.
He was always a liability to that organisation.
As long as he gets paid, he doesn’t care.
The good thing about these shameful events is that JPO has now become an embarrassment to the Labour Party, and Muscat is probably thinking of ditching him – after all he has no more use for him. Definitely Pullicino Orlando is not fit, and never was, to chair the MCST.
[Daphne – I hardly think so. They have a health consultant who was forced out of his EU Commission role and is still under investigation. Also, embarrassment has nothing to do with it. What really counts is whether Pullicino Orlando has enough material to compromise Muscat publicly and the unstable nature to do so, and I’d say he does and that Muscat is hostage to yet another unsavoury character.]
Musical beds – whoever would have thought that Hal Ghaxaq has a swinging scene?
Milli jidher lil JPO il-Labour PASTIZZI biss dewwaqlu. Il-KAFE hallieh bir-rih tieghu biss.
Is this Franco’s hairdresser?
The Labour Party needs to subcontract the Cana Movement to start pre marriage and post divorce behaviour courses.
I am amazed at the number of people saying that this is not of any interest to them, many in a holier-than-thou tone of voice.
People who are otherwise quite happy to sit round the dinner table and talk about everyone they know and how they’re breaking up, pregnant outside of marriage, alcoholic etc.
And then something like this comes along and they’re scandalised because you’re blogging about it. What stupid hypocrites.
[Daphne – Oh, they’re not scandalised at all, Catherine. They think it’s fashionable to be scandalised and that what is expected of them is to express shock that I wrote about it, rather than shock that Pullicino Orlando did it.
However, I know for a fact – because I have been around for almost as long as Pullicino Orlando has and believe me when I say that it’s never been a sheltered life – that what they are really feeling is the latter and that when they have a trusted audience, like their sisters, mother, best friend, whatever, they’ll be going over every last detail. The women are the worst, of course – some women in Malta can’t stand to see any other woman be the subject of discussion or admiration.
It’s the southern Mediterranean mindset that affects every other area of life and work: they see it as competition for scarce resources, in this case, male attention of whatever variety. Men tend to be more honest about their interest in these matters, and interestingly, most of the members of my international worldwide network of spies are men, not women.
People tend to forget that at this end I can see the viewership stats for every post, and this one has literally gone through the roof, but curiously enough, the viewership stats for the Posh Photo Studio pictures are much higher still. As you yourself know and have often commented, this is Malta, where people are very unsophisticated, and part of their tragic lack of sophistication is pretending to be indifferent or having views on matters of taste which to the truly sophisticated are completely risible.
I notice very little change in the manner, mode and subject of discourse among many of my contemporaries, for example, between when we were 16 and now at 49. You’re talking 33 years in which there has been little or no change in their mentality or their vocabulary. I read anthropology for a while at university, and my abiding regret is that I never researched and wrote a paper on this fascinating topic. Lucky you, to be living elsewhere in these trying times, though.]
I’d be a rich man if I had a penny for every time I heard a sanctimonious ‘Ahna ma jinteressawniex dawn l-affarijiet…rajtha x’kitbet Daphne?’, or ‘I don’t read Daphne. She’s such a…’, followed by a detailed expose of something Daphne has written.
And of course, it’s absolutely true that women in Malta live by a self-destructive code. I’ve lived abroad for some time and often think about the stark contrast between the bahaviour of women here and that of women in Malta.
Women in the country where I live (not Malta) do not spend their time pandering to male egos. They do not giggle at inappropriate behaviour and innuendo. It is generally accepted that a woman’s most important asset sits between her ears.
Couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said. As regards living abroad, even the weird people here (it’s academia, there’s loads of them) are less weird than your average Maltese person.
Il-Mizbla li kien hemm il-Maghtab mhiex bizzejjed.
Money clearly doesn’t buy class.
Does Mariella do men’s hair?
I wonder where Franco Debono lowers his ears?