Silvio Berlusconi’s family scrap payments to women who attended bunga bunga parties
Silvio Berlusconi’s family has ended €2,500 (£2,100) a month payments made to common feminine company on the late politician’s infamous bunga bunga intercourse parties, it has emerged.
About 20 women, together with fashions and dancers, had acquired the payments from Berlusconi, in accordance to Italian media reviews. Some continued after his loss of life in June, aged 86.
But the previous prime minister’s family have now opted to scrap the remittances, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.
The family additionally knowledgeable various women who lived in luxurious flats offered by Berlusconi they’d have to depart by the tip of the yr, in accordance to Italian media.
Lawyers and representatives for Berlusconi’s family couldn’t be reached for remark by the Telegraph.
According to Berlusconi, the payments to the women had been supposed to compensate them for the injury to their reputations brought on by their look within the billionaire’s trials linked to the allegedly promiscuous parties he organised at his residences in Milan and Sardinia.
The former prime minister all the time insisted the so-called bunga bunga parties had been elegant dinners.
Berlusconi went on trial a number of occasions, dealing with costs of bribery, exploiting prostitutes and paying for intercourse with an underage girl, in relation to the parties.
Bought the women automobiles and presents
In the most recent of the trials, which lasted six years, Berlusconi was accused of paying out a whole lot of 1000’s of euros in bribes to women in order that they’d lie in regards to the nature of his parties.
He allegedly purchased the women automobiles and presents, gave them money and paid for his or her hire.
The billionaire media-tycoon turned politician and his legal professionals had all the time insisted the presents and cash had been compensation for the reputational injury that the women had suffered because of being swept up within the bunga bunga scandal, which helped convey Berlusconi down as prime minister in 2011.
His legal professionals mentioned he was out on trial merely “for the crime of generosity”. Berlusconi was acquitted in February.
The acquittal was the fruits of a protracted authorized battle that started in 2010 when Berlusconi, then prime minister, was accused of abuse of energy by defending Karima El-Mahroug, a younger Moroccan nightclub dancer.
The girl, identified by her stage identify Ruby, had been arrested for petty theft, however Berlusconi intervened to have her launched, falsely claiming that she was the niece of Hosni Mubarak, then president of Egypt.
The following yr, Berlusconi was accused of getting paid Ruby, who in 2010 was 17 years previous, for intercourse.
Sentenced at first in 2013 to seven years in jail, he was lastly acquitted in March 2015 by the next courtroom.
