Milind G
For once it did not happen in India. Berlo is guilty of paying for sex with a pretty-looking minor. Italy’s ex-Prime Minister got seven-years in jail and is barred from public office but free during appeals process. The verdict brings to a climax a two-year-old trial which sparked a media frenzy amid allegations of strippers dressed as nuns and erotic party games with topless girls during his term in power.
Italy’s ex-PM Berlusconi has had sex in exchange for money on several occasions in 2010 with a then 17-year-old sexy and attractive girl known as ‘Ruby the Heart Stealer’ at the raunchy ‘bunga bunga’ parties at his Milan mansion, which was very much in the news those days.
Ruby whose real name is Karima El Mahrouq, moved with her family from Morocco to Sicily in 2003. She ran away from home at 14; was spotted by one of Berlo’s cronies at a beauty contest and was invited to entertain him. She was arrested in May 2010 for stealing a bracelet. Berlo claimed she is the niece of then, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and asked police to release her to keep under wraps his liaison with the underage girl. Later he said, he had no idea that Ruby was not Mubarak’s niece. He says it was part of a series of lies that Ruby had told him, including her age. A lot of flip flop statements were made as a cover-up, which did not cut ice with the court.
Ruby told the court that she attended Berlo’s parties with naked girls. Later she changed her version, insisting that the majority of the things she said were not true, including how much money she got from Berlo. She admitted to lying about having sex for money with Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Now she’s married to a night club manager and has a cute baby girl, away from the limelight.
The recent verdict closes a two-year trial that has distracted Italy with its accounts of ‘bunga bunga’ parties at the billionaire’s private villa outside Milan while he was Prime Minister in 2010.
Berlusconi always denied the wrong doing and says he is being prosecuted by the left wing party. He says the purported sex parties were just elegant dinner where female guests performed ‘burlesque’ shows. El Mahrouq denied having sex with Berlusconi.
Berlusconi’s age also means he is unlikely to ever see the inside of the prison cell because of lenient sentencing guidelines in Italy for people over the age of 70 years.
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