Newsgroup: it.politica.pds
Titolo: Times; Berlusconi, Tarantini e le escort

Giampaolo Tarantini lists women he claims he took to Silvio
Berlusconi�s parties
[Richard Owen, The Times, September 10, 2009
A businessman at the heart of the sex scandals surrounding Silvio
Berlusconi has told prosecutors that he supplied 30 women for parties
hosted by the Prime Minister, some of whom were paid to have sex with
him.
Giampaolo Tarantini, who is under investigation in Bari for allegedly
paying Italian and foreign women to go to Mr Berlusconi�s villas, said
that he set out to get to know the Italian leader because of his power
and influence.
He said: �To this end I incurred considerable expense to enter into
his confidence. Knowing of his interest in the female sex, I brought
him girls who I presented as my friends � keeping quiet about the fact
that I had paid them.�
The allegations came to light yesterday when evidence that Mr
Tarantini gave to investigators in July was leaked to the newspaper
Corriere della Sera. He is under investigation for corruption,
abetting prostitution and supplying cocaine.
Mr Tarantini added that he wanted to �establish a network in the
public administration because I thought that these days girls and
cocaine were the key to access and success in society�, according to
the report.
He allegedly supplied women for 18 parties at Mr Berlusconi�s
residences in Rome and Sardinia between September last year and
January this year.Some of them were paid �1,000 (�878) for �sexual
services� while others were paid expenses only, it was claimed.
Mr Berlusconi�s office declined to comment. The Prime Minister has
always denied paying women for sex or any other impropriety, and he is
not under investigation.
Last night Mr Berlusconi said that he was the victim of �ferocious
attacks� but insisted that his popularity was undiminished.
�I think Italians recognise themselves in me,� he told a meeting of
his party�s youth wing. �I am one of them. I was poor, I am interested
in the things that interest them. I love football, I smile, I love
others and, above all else, beautiful women.�
However, the allegations will add to pressure on Mr Berlusconi who, in
a failed attempt to stem the flow of rumours about his private life,
has issued writs against Italian and foreign newspapers and started a
counter-offensive through Il Giornale, the newspaper owned by his
family.
He has become embroiled in a war of words with the Catholic Church and
Gianfranco Fini, the co-leader of his ruling People of Liberty party.
The scandals began in April when Mr Berlusconi attended the 18th
birthday party in Naples of Noemi Letizia, an aspiring model, and
failed to explain fully how he knew her. His wife, Veronica Lario,
demanded a divorce.
Patrizia D�Addario, a Bari escort girl, later claimed that she had
spent the night of the US election in November with Mr Berlusconi at
Palazzo Grazioli, his residence in Rome. She has given recordings and
photographs to the Bari prosecutors which, she says, back up her
account.
Mr Tarantini told prosecutors that Mr Berlusconi had introduced him to
prospective business clients, including Guido Bertolaso, the head of
the Civil Protection Agency, and Enrico Intini, of the defence company
Finmeccanica, but that these meetings had led to nothing.
There is no suggestion that either of these was involved in any
wrongdoing.
Mr Tarantini�s businesses include public relations, hospital supplies
and cleaning services.
He had taken a Bari woman, to Palazzo Grazioli �if I am not mistaken,
in September or October 2008. I paid her in advance for sexual
services, but I don�t know if it happened or not.�
He had taken several actresses and a hostess, to Palazzo Grazioli, at
the same time �but the only one who had an intimate encounter was� the
Bari woman. Mr Tarantini also reportedly admitted supplying
prostitutes to senior local politicians in Apulia, and had paid for an
election dinner attended by Massimo D�Alema, the former centre-left
Prime Minister, and Michele Emiliano, the Mayor of Bari.
He allegedly twice paid �a very dear friend who I met through my wife
about ten years ago� � to have sex with Mr Berlusconi.
Mr Tarantini claimed that she was �not a professional call girl but
she is not averse to being rewarded for sexual services�. He also
claimed to have paid a TV actress and an escort to come from Milan and
had given them �a sum of money in case they had had sexual relations
with Prime Minister Berlusconi�.
When taking women to Palazzo Grazioli, he said, he had asked them to
sit in the back seats where the windows were obscured so that
�journalists and other people could not look in�. He had always warned
the entrance guards of his arrival and they in turn had alerted other
guards inside. �When we entered the courtyard we were taken to the
upper floors, where we were received.�
Yesterday Mr Berlusconi avoided comment on the latest revelations
while addressing a youth rally of his People of Liberty party, instead
noting that he had overtaken Alcide De Gasperi, the post-war Prime
Minister, as Italy�s longest-serving head of government. He vowed to
serve for the remaining four years of his current mandate.


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c'� anche molta sinistra filoamericana nel registro di quello l�..