Berlusconi: I Don't Even Like Hookers

(NEWSER) - Silvio Berlusconi's antics with models and call girls have threatened to derail his government, but the woman at the center of the sex-and-corruption scandal says she's seen it all before. "This is how Italy always works," Patrizia D’Addario tells the Financial Times. The hooker says she came forward to protect herself and recounts how her house was robbed by burglars who stole her underwear and photos from the PM. More»

Italian PM allegedly told woman to 'wait for me in the big bed'

(NEWSER) - Italian prosecutors are preparing to question up to 30 women, including eastern European models, as part of a probe into the alleged procurement of prostitutes for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The sex scandal widened yesterday when a photo emerged of two young women in short dresses posing in what appears to be Belusconi's private home. One of the women photographed said Berlusconi instructed another girl to "go and wait for me in the big bed." More»

'Get real and get over yourself': Spitzer babe

(NEWSER) - Ashley Dupre has a message for the ladies out there "who just love to judge" her $4,300 romp with a sitting governor: you're no better than hookers. The onetime Eliot Spitzer call girl blogged a rant about women who look down on her but "target guys with money" and use them to get "nice shoes, designer handbags, and gorgeous clothes," the New York Post reports. More»

Scandal ramps up as hostess also says PM had sex with hooker

(NEWSER) - Silvio Berlusconi is facing further pressure to resign after a 23-year-old revealed she had received a $14,000 "present" from the Italian PM after attending a party, reports the Times of London. The woman also says that Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the center of the growing prostitution scandal, told her she and Berlusconi had sex. The two women had been invited to the politician's home by a fixer currently under investigation for corruption and abetting prostitution. More»

Prime Minister: I just make females feel 'special'

(NEWSER) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been ordered to court to stand trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage girl, then abused his authority in an attempted cover up. A judge handed down an indictment today, and trial is set to begin in early April, reports MSNBC . The case threatens to finally topple the scandal-plagued leader. Belusconi, 74, said yesterday he has no intention, however, of relinquishing his office even after hundreds of thousands of Italian women protested the aging leader over the weekend. More»