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Titolo: THE GUARDIAN   Berlusconi admits suspected pimp brought women to his home

Berlusconi admits suspected pimp brought women to his home
But Italian prime minister continues to laugh off claims of paid sex in
return for political favours
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has admitted for the first time
that women were brought to his home by a businessman who is under
investigation for aiding and abetting prostitution. But he repeated that he
had not paid them for sex, and declared that he was "by far the best prime
minister Italy has had in its 150 year history".
In extracts from a statement to police published yesterday, Giampaolo
Tarantini, from the southern Italian city of Bari, said he had brought about
30 women to parties and dinners at Berlusconi's Rome palazzo and at least
six had spent the night there. The affair took on a new dimension today when
it emerged that some of the alleged encounters took place on days when the
prime minister cancelled official appointments.
At a press conference today with the visiting Spanish prime minister, Jos�
Luis Rodr�guez Zapatero, Berlusconi said: "An entrepreneur from Bari, now
well known, Tarantino or Tarantini, came to some dinners bringing with him
beautiful women [and] introducing them as his friends, his acquaintances."
But he added that talk of a prostitution ring was "an utter lie, an utter
slander". He had "never paid for a sexual service. For someone who loves to
conquer, the joy is the conquest. If you pay, what joy can there be?"
Tarantini, who was seeking political introductions to further his business,
told police he paid the women who stayed at the prime minister's residence
�1,000 and reimbursed expenses to others. Three of the women � who included
reality show contestants, a model, an actress and a self-acknowledged
prostitute � have denied his claims.
Bari's chief prosecutor said today that the investigation had not so far
uncovered any evidence of criminal activity by Berlusconi. But it has raised
questions about whether the prime minister let his private life interfere
with his official duties.
On 23 September last year he was scheduled to address the United Nations
general assembly. His foreign minister, Franco Frattini, explained that the
prime minister had been obliged to cancel by the crisis over the future of
Italy's flag carrier airline, Alitalia. The situation, he told journalists
in New York, "requires the prime minister's constant presence" in Rome.
According to Tarantini, that same evening he drew up at the entrance to
Berlusconi's home in a vehicle with newly darkened rear windows and no fewer
than five women in the back. They allegedly included the hostess in the VIP
section of a well-known discotheque and a former Big Brother contestant �
who denied Tarantini's full account, but not that she had been Berlusconi's
guest. Tarantini alleges that a third woman had an "intimate encounter" with
the prime minister that evening.
Three months later, on 23 December, Berlusconi failed to attend an event
organised by the Italian Olympic committee and the head of state's Christmas
party at which the president, Giorgio Napolitano, addressed his guests on
the subject of legal reform.
The official explanation was that he had torn a muscle and, according to the
daily La Repubblica, a statement issued that day said not even "the
attention of a physiotherapist had succeeded in making it better".
Tarantini's statement, however, claims the ailing Berlusconi was visited
during the evening by a Latin American showgirl and a former castaway in the
Italian version of Love Island. Both have denied it.
The prime minister was in an apparently upbeat mood today, telling the press
conference that he enjoyed "the admiration of 68% per cent of Italians" �
though he did not cite a source. The previous evening he again joked about
his reputation at a meeting of young members of his party. When a female
follower got up to ask a question, he interrupted her, saying: "I'm letting
off the boys, but the girls are having to give their phone numbers."
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 Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Berlusconi said: "An entrepreneur from Bari,
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