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| More trouble seems to be brewing for Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, with local media publishing transcripts of the 74-year-old allegedly boasting of sleeping with eight women in one night. (AFP/Tiziana Fabi) |
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| The conversations also suggested for the first time that he gave money to the women he allegedly slept with, contradicting his repeated insistence that he never paid for sex. In this pic, Italy's member of parliament and PDL party Elvira Savino (C) and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are seen attending a debate in the upper house of Parliament in Rome on September 14, 2011. (Reuters/Max Rossi) |
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| The taped conversations revealed in extraordinary detail how parties involving dozens of young starlets and escorts were organised for the Italian PM by a 36-year-old middleman, Gianpaolo Tarantini, a convicted cocaine dealer. (AFP) |
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| He was recorded telling Tarantini in October 2008 not to worry about paying the women too much, because they were already "well looked after". (AFP/Tiziana Fabi) |
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| In one conversation taped by investigators in early 2009, Berlusconi told him, "Last night I had a queue outside my door, there were 11 of them. I only managed to do eight of them, I couldn't manage any more. You just can't get round to all of them. But this morning I feel great, I'm pleased with my stamina." (Reuters) |
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| "If you have a girl -- two girls, three girls--to bring," Berlusconi is quoted as asking the southern business "Please don't get tall ones-... because we are not tall." In this pic, member of parliament Michaela Biancofiore is seen squeezing Berlusconi's chin at the Parliament in Rome on August 3, 2011. (AFP) |
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| In another excerpt reported by major dailies, Berlusconi says "Gianpi" and his female friends could come along on the premier's flight to Milan. Yet another has him joking to a young woman that he works as prime minister during his "spare time". (Reuters/Max Rossi) |
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| The conversations also offered the strongest evidence yet that the scandal-prone billionaire used taxpayers' money and state-owned aircraft to fly alleged prostitutes around Italy. (Reuters/Max Rossi) |
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| Sometime back, the flamboyant Prime Minister was apparently seen flirting with Biancofiore, a member of Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party, who has been his long-term friend! (AP) |
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| Also, a popular Italian daily reported sometime back that an enquiry's open against Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi on the so-called Rubygate, on charges of under age sexual relations. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte) |
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| Seen in this November 14, 2010, file photo is teenage nightclub dancer Karima El Mahroug of Morocco during a photocall at the Karma disco in Milan. A few months ago, it was reported that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a prostitution investigation in Milan over a teenaged nightclub dancer who attended parties at his private residence. The magistrates were reportedly investigating allegations that Berlusconi paid to have sex with 17 year-old Mahroug, who used the stage name 'Ruby Rubacuori'. (Reuters/STR) |
