Businessman who supplied women for Berlusconi’s parties arrested

September 26th, 2009 LONDON - Months after claiming that she was paid to sleep with Silvio Berlusconi, Bari prostitute Patrizia D'Addario made her first appearance on national television in Italy. The interview, which D'Addario gave to Spanish daily El Pais in July, was broadcast in Italy by the Left-leaning talkshow AnnoZero, on state television RAI.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's daughter Marina, who is ranked the 10th most powerful businesswoman in the world by Fortune magazine, has come to her father's defence, saying he has been "stabbed in the back" by months of revelations about his sex life. The 43-year-old came to his defence after Giampaolo Tarantini, a businessman under investigation for alleged drug and prostitution offences, told prosecutors in Bari, southern Italy, that he had supplied 31 women for the prime minister's parties between last September and January, reports The Times.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - Responding to the sex scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi, the key coalition partner in the Italian PM's government, said he believed Mafia had orchestrated all the dirty activities. "I think everything has been put in place by the Mafia," Bossi, the leader of the Northern League, said as he arrived at an event in Pian del Re in the north of the country.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - After Silvio Berlusconi's recent comments that "all Italians want to be like me," a columnist has said that the premiere casts an impression of being an "angry, defeated and depressed man who is at odds with everyone". The columnist claimed Berlusconi has based his 15-year political career on image-making through his television and advertising empire, but the image is wearing thin - thanks to the controversies, reports The Times.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Patrizia D'Addario, the escort girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is reportedly planning to write a book about her erotic adventures. Meanwhile, D'Addario, 42, who recorded her encounter with the 72-year-old tycoon on her mobile telephone, visited police in Bari on Wednesday and sources at the prosecutor's office said she was there to file a counter claim against her former lover's wife and to discuss the allegations of attempted murder, reports The Times.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Patrizia D'Addario, the escort girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has been accused of attempting to murder a former boyfriend. D'Addario, 42, who recorded her encounter with the 72-year-old tycoon on her mobile telephone, visited police in Bari on Wednesday and sources at the prosecutor's office said she was there to file a counter claim against her former lover's wife and to discuss the allegations of attempted murder, reports The Telegraph.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Patrizia D'Addario, the escort girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is to appear at a themed party entitled 'I Love Silvio' in her honour at a Paris nightclub. The 42-year-old is embarking on the publicity campaign tomorrow, reports The Times.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - Prosecutors probing into the payments made to escorts and showgirls to attend parties at the homes of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are likely to extend their investigation to women who allegedly accompanied him to a spa in Umbria last year. A magazine had earlier reported that PM had spent a weekend in a luxurious Umbrian health spa with an entourage of women, including an actress and a former showgirl who have worked for his television stations, when he was supposed to attend a political rally.

July 12th, 2009 LONDON - While Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was busy attending world leaders at the G8 summit in his country, a new chapter unfolded in the sex scandal haunting him for months. A magazine has alleged that the PM had spent a weekend in a luxurious Umbrian health spa with an entourage of women, including an actress and a former showgirl who have worked for his television stations.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Up to 30 young women are to be questioned by Italian prosecutors in connection with parties thrown by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it has been reported.rosecutors will begin questioning the girls later this week. La Repubblica newspaper had claimed that the women, including Eastern European models, were recruited to attend at least five parties thrown by Berlusconi at his mansion in central Rome and his villa on Sardinia's exclusive Costa Smeralda, reports The Telegraph.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi has been dragged into further controversy after another woman claimed that she was paid to attend the Italian Prime Minister's parties. Model Barbara Montereale said that Berlusconi gave her 10,000 euros "as a present" after attending one of his parties at Villa Certosa.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is involved in a fresh sex scandal after a former model claimed to have pictures showing the two of them in his bedroom. Patrizia DAddario, who claims that she and other women were paid to attend Berlusconis private parties, said Thursday she had secretly recorded video footage of her encounters in the prime ministers Rome residence.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Former French President Jacques Chirac has revealed that he was left startled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's rather "unseemly" interest with the opposite sex. On Wednesday, Berlusconi denied that young women had been paid to attend parties at his villas.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's wife seems to have won the battle against Italian prime minister's eye for attractive young women. His party has decided not to promote the four starlets Berlusconi recommended as candidates for the European Parliament.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's 'exasperated' wife has launched a scathing attack on the Italian Prime Minister, insisting that she's 'suffering' from his fascination with young women. Veronica Lario described Berlusconi's behaviour as "shameless rubbish" and compared him with Napoleon and a Roman emperor.