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Italian investigators target 30 party-girls
Up to 30 young women will be questioned by Italian prosecutors as part of an investigation into the alleged procuring of prostitutes for parties held by Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, it was reported Monday.
- The Daily Telegraph
- Published: 22:56 June 23, 2009
Rome: Up to 30 young women will be questioned by Italian prosecutors as part of an investigation into the alleged procuring of prostitutes for parties held by Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, it was reported Monday.
The women, including Eastern European models, were recruited to attend at least five parties thrown by Berlusconi at his home in central Rome and his villa on Sardinia's exclusive Costa Smeralda, according to La Repubblica newspaper.
An acquaintance of Berlusconi, Giampaolo Tarantini, a 35-year-old businessman, is being investigated by prosecutors in the port of Bari on suspicion of abetting prostitution by recruiting models and call girls for the prime minister's private parties.
As the scandal widened, pictures emerged of two young women taking photographs of each other in what they said was a bathroom in Palazzo Grazioli, the prime minister's private residence in Rome, during a party on November 4 last year.
Lucia Rossini and Barbara Montereale posed in front of a large mirror and took pictures of each other Montereale, 23, a model, has claimed that a third woman who attended the candlelit dinner, Patrizia D'Addario, 42, a high-class escort, was paid 1,000 euros to go to bed with the 72-year-old prime minister that night.
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