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Italy’s top court clears Berlusconi in bunga bunga sex case

Italy’s top court clears Berlusconi in bunga bunga sex case

Mar 11, – After nine hours of deliberations, the judges at the Court of Cassation delivered a ruling that brings to an end a lengthy legal saga which lifted the lid on the “bunga bunga” sex parties the billionaire tycoon and former prime minister organised in his Milan villa. Italy’s top court definitively cleared Silvio […]

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Rome mayor election tests Berlusconi influence on voters

Rome mayor election tests Berlusconi influence on voters

June 9, ROME (AP) — Media mogul Berlusconi campaigned for his center-right party’s candidate in Rome, incumbent Gianni Alemanno, who is trying for a second term in a runoff against former transplant surgeon Ignazio Marino, who is backed by the center-left. Alemanno trailed in the first round two weeks ago in Italy’s capital. In his […]

June 9, 2013 | By More
Woman in Berlusconi case denies her own sworn descriptions

Woman in Berlusconi case denies her own sworn descriptions

MILAN (AP) — They included telling investigators in 2010 that she had exchanged phone numbers with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo at a restaurant. On the stand, she said the closest she had gotten to the soccer star were advertising billboards around Milan that summer — and that she had not been paid to have sex […]

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Italy: Prosecution closes sex-for-hire case on Berlusconi

Italy: Prosecution closes sex-for-hire case on Berlusconi

May 14, AP – Prosecutors demanded a sentence of six years in jail and a lifetime ban from public office for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi near the end of his trial in Milan over sex-for-hire allegations. Monday’s hearing of closing arguments stem from proceedings begun two years ago. Prosecutors had charged in 2010 that Berlusconi, […]

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