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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi († 86) for years generously supported young women who took part in his infamous ‘Bunga-Bunga’ parties – now, according to a newspaper report, Berlusconi’s heirs have been cut off their money. For more than ten years, twenty young women received 2,500 euros monthly from the media czar and politician. Some of them lived in apartments belonging to the former head of government’s real estate empire.
Berlusconi had justified the lavish financial support to the women by pointing to the damage to their reputations they allegedly suffered as a result of their summons in various lawsuits surrounding the infamous ‘Bunga-Bunga’ parties in Berlusconi’s villas.
However, as Corriere della Sera reported on Friday, Berlusconi’s family decided to stop monthly payments after his death in June. In addition, the disgraced women were asked to leave Berlusconi’s apartments.
Years of party research
Several lawsuits have been brought against Berlusconi over the years in connection with the drinking parties in his villas. He was accused of bribing the participating women into telling untruths about the circumstances of their participation in the celebrations. He was finally acquitted in February.
Central to the affair was the then 17-year-old nightclub dancer Karima el-Mahroug, alias Ruby Rubacuore (Ruby Heartbreaker), with whom Berlusconi is said to have had sex for money from 2010 onwards. The ‘Ruby affair’ first came to public attention when el-Mahroug was arrested by Italian police for theft in 2010.
Berlusconi, then head of government, then called the police station and claimed that el-Mahroug was the niece of then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (1928-2020) and should therefore be released. El-Mahroug later reported in a recorded conversation about regular orgies in Berlusconi’s villa. Then she came back and claimed she had made it all up.
Courts had tried in vain to prove that Berlusconi knew el-Mahroug was a minor and had paid a number of witnesses millions in hush money to cover up the incidents at Berlusconi’s home. (AFP)
Source: Blick
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