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Berlusconi prostitute explains deal

25 Nov, 2:24 AM

The prostitute at the centre of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal claims she slept with him believing he would help her set up a countryside inn but she got "nothing" in return.

Patrizia D'Addario, whose memoirs went on sale in Italy, said she felt betrayed.

She also said she has been frightened by strange threats, including the ransacking of her home, since she revealed this year that she had taped-recorded her purported bedroom encounter with Mr Berlusconi.

In "Gradisca, Presidente," (At Your Pleasure, Premier), D'Addario elaborates on her earlier accounts of the night she spent with Mr Berlusconi in his Rome residence. The conservative leader has said he has never paid for sex and is the victim of someone seeking to create a scandal.

D'Addario says she gave Mr Berlusconi her body hoping he would help her open a countryside inn in southern Italy, where she was raised. In the book she documents how her efforts to open the hotel had been stymied over the years by Italy's bureaucracy.

The 73-year-old media mogul's wife, Veronica Lario, said last spring she is divorcing him for what she called his infatuation with attractive young women.

"(Berlusconi) didn't pay me. It wasn't money he had to give me, he promised me something else," D'Addario writes in the book. "I gave him my body, he (gave me) nothing."

News magazine L'Espresso obtained what it said were the tapes made by D'Addario. In them, a man identified as Mr Berlusconi is heard telling the woman to wait for him on the big bed while he showers.

In the memoir, which stretches back to an unhappy childhood, D'Addario writes that since she revealed that she had made a tape recording of the encounter, she has been the subject of threats, aggression and other "strange episodes," including the ransacking of her home.

"They take away everything, from panties to dresses, from stockings to bras, from jewellery to shoes, from CDs to my diaries, to my address book, the computer. They only leave me a very expensive TV," she says. "Now I am really frightened."



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