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Titolo: Il Times insiste

Berlusconi scandal turns from yachts and glamour to mean streets of Bari
Silvio Berlusconi, pictured in Brussels yesterday
Lucy Bannerman in Bari and Richard Owen in Rome
From the billionaire�s playground on the Sardinian coast, the scandal
threatening the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi has dripped south to the
mean streets of Bari.
Revelations have moved attention beyond the yacht decks and private villas
of the Costa Smeralda, to the southern Italian town, where prosecutors are
investigating a distinctly less glamorous world of cocaine, corruption and
call girls.
It is here, in this rough and ready province on the Adriatic coast that an
inquiry has begun into alleged payments to escort girls to attend parties at
the Prime Minister�s homes in Rome and Sardinia.
Prosecutors have widened the inquiry to include possible drugs offences. The
investigation is the latest blow for Mr Berlusconi, who has faced weeks of
scrutiny since attending the 18th birthday party of an aspiring model, Noemi
Letizia, in Naples. His wife said she wanted a divorce, claiming that he
�frequents minors�.
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Among those under investigation is Alessandro Mannavini, the former driver
of Giampaolo Tarantini, 35, a Bari businessman who allegedly recruited women
for Mr Berlusconi�s parties.
According to Italian reports, Mr Mannavini is being investigated for
�possession and use of cocaine�, while Mr Tarantini faces allegations of
�abetting prostitution�. There is no suggestion that Mr Berlusconi knew of
drugs use and he is not under investigation by the Bari prosecutors.
The inquiry began after police reportedly intercepted phone calls by Mr
Tarantini during a wider investigation into corruption charges against Tecno
Hospital, the company he owns with his brother, Claudio, which supplies
medical equipment to Bari hospitals. He claimed to know Mr Berlusconi in
several wiretapped conversations, according to Italian reports.
However, the case took another twist this week, following explosive claims
by a former model and escort girl, Patrizia D�Addario.
Not only does she say that she was paid to attend a party � and later spend
the night � at Mr Berlusconi�s residence in Rome, she also says that the
encounters were arranged by a �friend� named Giampaolo.
But the allegations that have provided most grist to the Italian rumour mill
are her claims that she has deposited, �under lock and key� at the
prosecutors� offices in Bari, audio and video tapes allegedly recorded at
Palazzo Grazioli, Mr Berlusconi�s Rome residence.
These, she insists, will prove her encounters with the Prime Minister. Both
the videos and the audio tapes, which are said to have Mr Berlusconi�s voice
on them, are being checked by prosecutors for authenticity. One is said to
show his bedroom.
Unusually, for a woman who appears to have spent years seeking the spotlight
as model, television showgirl, and � if she is to be believed � magician�s
assistant, Ms D�Addario was nowhere to be seen in her home town, yesterday.
Neighbours in Via Trevisani said it was well known in the area that the
single mother, 42, worked as an escort. Her late father, Francesco, was a
pimp who, before his death several years ago, used to let one of the
top-floor flats to a woman who ran a brothel.This week, a local news
programme broadcast an old videoclip of Ms D�Addario as a fame-seeking
16-year-old at a nearby talent festival in 1984.
During her dance routine, her bikini slips to reveal her breasts, but five
minutes pass before she appears to notice.
As for Mr Berlusconi, who yesterday attended the EU summit in Brussels, he
has repeatedly dismissed the claims as rubbish. Antenna Sud, a local Bari
television station, broadcast footage clearly showing Mr Berlusconi � who
claims that he �does not remember� Ms D�Addario � greeting her with a broad
smile as he arrived an election meeting in Bari on May 31. In the footage,
he can be heard saying �Ciao� to her while she responds with �Auguri� � good
luck. The footage also shows her being prevented from entering the election
rally in a hotel, as she described this week to the Corriere della Sera
newspaper.
Mr Berlusconi�s lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini has laughed off Ms D�Addario�s
claims. However, he was forced to clarify his comments after offending many
Italian women this week by saying that �even if� the Prime Minister had
spent the night with an escort girl, he had not committed a crime because he
would merely have been �the end user�.
Women in the spotlight
Noemi Letizia, an aspiring model and actress at the centre of scandal.
Berlusconi attended her 18th birthday party on April 26 and gave her a gold
and diamond necklace; she is said to have attended a new year's party at
Berlusconi's villa. He has not explained how he came to know her.
Patrizia D'Addario, a former model and escort, 42, who says that she was
paid to attend Berlusconi's parties and has secretly filmed herself and
Berlusconi in his bedroom.
Elisa Alloro, a slim, blonde former television presenter, 33, and author of
We, Silvio�s Girls, who says that she has been invited repeatedly to Villa
Certosa. �Every time is a privilege,� she says
Sabina Began, a former nude model who was named by the Italian press as the
�queen bee� at Berlusconi's villa parties. Reported to have sat on his knee
at a party celebrating his 2008 election victory while he sang the Napoletan
song Mala Femmena (Bad Woman)
Veronica Lario, Mr Berlusconi's wife, 53, who announced on May 3 that she
was seeking a divorce because she "could not stay with a man who frequents
minors"
Source: Times database
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Il times non pubblica commenti a favore di Berlusconi,  a quanto mi
risulta. Infatti l'ha pubblicata la nuova letterina di Veronica?
Sono arrivati da Londra per fare fessi gli italiani costoro? Loro che
sono a bacchetta di Murdoch tre mogli di cui l'ultima 40 anni più
giovane?
Ma insomma finitela qui. tanto non cade ( il governo )

 Source: Times database
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Di certo avrai ragione -:)
ma sai, dalle nostre parti pi� che leggere il Times siamo impegnati nella 
vecchia arte di lavorare.
Beato chi ha solo tempo da perdere nel nulla.
Bye
Gio' 

> Ma insomma finitela qui. tanto non cade ( il governo )
beh...se non corri a comperare un pï¿½ di BOT non corre certo
il rischio che cada, ma che fallisca ...che ï¿½ molto peggio...


Se volete anch'io vi canto Bad Woman ( Malafemmena ) ma va là va là va
la va lààà

la va l=E0=E0=E0
femminaaaaaaaaaaaa  tu si na mala femminaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
stu cori ai fattooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ernesto piglialo nel culoooooooooooooooooo
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