They were mocked as 'jackasses' for revealing how they had been 'exiled' from the United States - to Italy's most exclusive resort. Now the Chilean-born New York socialites refused re-entry to the US, after being accused of 'enslaving' their Chilean nanny, have broken their silence to Dailymail.com - to say that it is 'heart-breaking' spending Christmas in Portofino. Malu Custer Edwards and her husband Micky Hurley were formally cleared of trafficking their child-minder to the US and forcing her to work in slave-like conditions. But during a family sailing holiday around the Mediterranean, their visas were rescinded- and the family have been stuck in Portofino on the Italian Riviera ever since.
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Micky Hurley, 37, and Malu Custer Edwards, 30, were accused of abusing Chilean nanny and locking her in their Upper East Side apartment
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A judge dismissed the lawsuit on December 9
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But the Chileans are not allowed to return from holiday in Italy
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Border officials cited the case as reason for blocking them and 3 children
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The family is stranded in Portofino, where they had planned to stay three weeks in August
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Today they told Dailymail.com they were 'heartbroken' and their eldest son says he doesn't want presents for Christmas, just to go back to New York
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Portofino is largely sunny and 50F today - Manhattan is rainy and 39F
Micky and the three elder children had permission to live there because of @placeholder's student visa while their youngest was born in the States and is a US citizen.