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'I Told the Truth': Berlusconi's Call Girl

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 6, 2009 7:32 AM CDT
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(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.

D'Addario was set to run for a seat in the European Parliament, supposedly with Berlusconi's blessing, until the PM's wife blasted his taste for women and said she wanted a divorce. D'Addario insists that she did not leak the explicit recordings that have embarrassed Berlusconi, but she has no regrets about coming forward. "I am the only one who told the truth," she says. "If no one speaks, who will change the system?"

Italian escort Patrizia D'Addario smiles during a party named I love Silvio, in Paris, Saturday Aug. 1, 2009.
Italian escort Patrizia D'Addario smiles during a party named "I love Silvio", in Paris, Saturday Aug. 1, 2009.   (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi initially denied the call girl's claims but later admitted, 'I am not a saint.'
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi initially denied the call girl's claims but later admitted, 'I am not a saint.'   (AP Photo/Sandro Perozzi)
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littleoopie
Aug 6, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
So she wants to change the system after her political aspirations fell through....hmmm....really noble.
youngblood
Aug 6, 2009 2:51 AM CDT
What is the World coming to when you can't even trust hookers to keep their mouths shut about who they sleep with!!
Timinator2K
Aug 6, 2009 1:11 AM CDT
What a hot babe...I sense a Bill Clinton Rescue Mission to Italy being readied.

 
prostitution • Italy • corruption • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • call girl • European Parliament • Veronica Lario • Patrizia D'Addario

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