Died this Monday (12), businessman and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had his name linked to sexual controversies for most of his 86 years of life. His political downfall was marked once and for all in 2011, when the prostitution scandal that had as its pivot the Italian-Moroccan model Karima el-Mahroug, the “Ruby Steals Hearts”.
The case was revealed in 2011, after the news that Berlusconi had paid a 17-year-old Moroccan girl to have sex with him at alcohol and drug-fuelled parties that the businessman used to throw at his mansion in the Arcore region, near Milan. . At the time, Berlusconi claimed in his defense that Ruby had claimed to be of legal age (24 years old). In 2015, he was acquitted in the case due to lack of evidence.
The events, dubbed “bunga-bunga” were attended by politicians, businessmen and call girls for orgies. In 2022, the Italian press reported the frequent presence of a Brazilian, Iris Beradi, at these parties. She would have been 18 at the time.
At a hearing last year as a result of the investigations against Berlusconi, Italian prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano said she felt “terrible pity” for Iris. “It is a proven fact that Iris frequented Silvio Berlusconi’s house as a minor. She was an irrepressible girl, as only young people can be, comparable to Ruby,” she said.
In intercepted calls made between 2012 and 2013, the Brazilian calls him “papaizinho” and says she misses him and the allowance he received.
In February this year, the country’s Justice acquitted the businessman of the charge of allegedly having bribed party participants to lie about their involvement with minors. The former prime minister denied the crime and said he was the victim of political persecution, but admitted to giving money to party participants as compensation for damage to the reputation of the people involved in the case.
Throughout his life, the politician had three marriages. The current woman was former model and congresswoman Marta Fascina, 33, from Força Italia. The first was Carla Elvira Dall’Oglio, with whom he had two children. His third marriage was to Veronica Lario, with whom he stayed until 2010 – she divorced after accusing him of lying about his relationship with a teenager.
Source: Folha
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