Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi generously supported young women who took part in his legendary ‘Bunga Bunga’ parties for years – now, according to a newspaper report, Berlusconi’s heirs have withdrawn their funding. For more than ten years, twenty young women each received 2,500 euros (about 2,410 francs) per month from the media mogul and politician.
Some of them lived in apartments belonging to the former head of government’s real estate empire. Berlusconi had justified the generous benefits for the women by referring 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.
Women have to leave their apartments
However, as the ‘Corriere della Sera’ reported on Friday, Berlusconi’s family decided to stop monthly payments after his death at the age of 86 in June. In addition, the disgraced women were asked to leave Berlusconi’s apartments.
Over the years, Berlusconi has been the subject of several lawsuits related to the drinking parties at 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.
17-year-old nightclub dancer at the center of the affair
Central to the affair was the then 17-year-old nightclub dancer Karima el-Mahroug, alias Ruby Rubacuore, with whom Berlusconi is said to have had sex for money from 2010. 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 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.
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