Posted on 06/18/2009 4:44:14 PM PDT by GOPGuide
A showgirl who claims that she and other women were paid to attend Silvio Berlusconi’s private parties said yesterday that she had pictures showing her with the Italian Prime Minister in his bedroom.
Patrizia D’Addario, a former model and escort girl, said that she had given prosecutors audio tapes but also had secretly recorded video footage of her encounters in the Prime Minister’s Rome residence.
Ms D’Addario, 42, who was yesterday described by a senior government figure as a high-class prostitute, said that the footage showed her standing in front of a mirror. A bedroom with a framed photograph of Veronica Lario, Mr Berlusconi’s estranged wife, was in view. She said she had made the recordings “so that nobody could deny I had been there”.
Ms Lario sued for divorce after Mr Berlusconi attended the 18th birthday party in Naples of Noemi Letizia, an aspiring model. She accuses her husband of “frequenting minors”.
Police said they were checking Ms D’Addario’s footage to ensure that the rooms shown were in the Prime Minister’s Palazzo Grazioli and that the voice on her tapes was Mr Berlusconi’s.
Three other women who claim that they were paid to attend Mr Berlusconi’s parties have also been interviewed by prosecutors. Mr Berlusconi, 72, who is not himself under investigation, has dismissed the allegations as falsehoods. He is said to have told aides that he does not remember Ms D’Addario.
Prosecutors have drawn up a list of more women they wish to interview, as well as others who may have had a role. These include local politicians who put up Ms D’Addario as a candidate in the European and municipal elections on June 6-7 on behalf of the People of Liberty, Mr Berlusconi’s party,
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Bill Clinton is going to be very, very jealous.
I'm going out a limb here, but it sounds like "high-class" prostitutes these days just don't have as much class as they used to.
Sounds more like a madame. With all those girls attending his private parties, Berlusconi needs someone to herd them.
Why would anyone ever TRUST one of these hussies?
This will do nothing whatsoever to harm Berlusconi’s reputation.
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