After returning to Italy in 2013, he went back to university to pursue an academic path, but late last year, some of his students and then the Italian press uncovered his past, sparking a debate in Italy about the appropriateness of his former career and leading the scholar into the public spotlight to speak out about gay rights in Italy. Ruggero Freddi is a doctoral candidate in mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome. But he is better known for his gay porn career in the US, where he starred in multiple films under the name Carlo Masi.
