Patrizia D'Addario is an Italian model and escort who claims that she was paid by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to attend parties at his residence.
A new panel of judges will formally open Premier Silvio Berlusconi's bribery trial on Dec. 4, more than a year after it was frozen by a now-defunct immunity law. "I am confident that if we have a new, impartial judge, Berlusconi will be acquitted," the premier's defense lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, told reporters after a brief hearing Friday to restart the trial. The three judges who convicted Berlusconi's co-defendant, British lawyer David Mills, of accepting a $600,000 bribe to lie to protect... Read Full Story
A call girl who claims she spent the night with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said she faced threats after the alleged encounter with the embattled premier, in a book published Wednesday. In the memoirs of Patrizia D'Addario, "Gradisca Presidente" (Take Your Pleasure, President), she also makes more allegations about the "fateful" night of November 4, 2008, at Berlusconi's Rome residence. D'Addario, 42, said she received threatening phone calls after spending the night with... Read Full Story
ROME (AFP) -- Italian police arrested two Mafia leaders on Saturday, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, a day after he was accused of links to the organisation. Gianni Nicchi, the 28-year-old thought to be the Mafia's second in command, was found hiding in an apartment a few hundred metres (yards) from the main court in Palermo, Sicily, Berlusconi told journalists. Police also arrested alleged Mafia number three Gaetano Fidanzati, 74, on a street in the northern city of Milan, Berlusconi... Read Full Story
The prostitute at the center of a sex scandal involving Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has written a book, saying she feels betrayed by him. Patrizia D'Addario, whose memoir went on sale in Italy on Tuesday, also claims she has suffered "strange" threats since she said she had taped-recorded her purported bedroom encounter with Berlusconi. In "Gradisca, Presidente," ("At Your Pleasure, Premier"), D'Addario elaborates on interviews she has given saying she spent the night with Berlusconi... Read Full Story
ROME, Dec. 5 (UPI) --
Almost 100,000 people took to the streets Saturday in Rome, demanding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi deal with Italy's
The demonstration was organized partly through a call on Facebook, The New York Times reported. Protesters gathered in the Piazza della Repubblica next to the main railroad station for a march through the city.
Elisa Tottone, a Roman teacher, told the Times.
Police estimated the size of the crowd at 90,000, although organizers gave much higher... Read Full Story
ROME, Dec. 4 (UPI) --
A Mafia informant told an Italian court Friday a mob boss claimed Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was closely tied to Cosa Nostra.
Gaspare Spatuzza testified at the appeal of a Berlusconi aide, Marcello Dell'Utri, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. He said Giuseppe Graviano, a Cosa Nostra boss later convicted of 1993 bombings, told him in 1994 that Dell'Utri, a native of Sicily, and Berlusconi, then a media tycoon starting to get active in politics, were... Read Full Story
The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned to January. The premier was busy with a global food summit in Rome and did not attend the hearing in a Milan courtroom. His lawyers said Berlusconi is unavailable for the trial due to his engagements as premier until Jan. 18. Judge Edoardo D'Avossa ruled that there will be two technical hearings before that date — one later this month, the other one in December... Read Full Story
Lawmakers allied with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will introduce a bill within days that could cut short his pending trials on tax fraud and corruption charges, one of the premier's most powerful backers in parliament said Tuesday. The trials were set to resume this month after a law granting Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office was overturned in October. Berlusconi denies wrongdoing, saying that he is the victim of left-leaning prosecutors. The premier's lawyers have... Read Full Story
Silvio Berlusconi angrily vowed to battle on as Italy's prime minister despite facing corruption trials after the Constitutional Court stripped his immunity from prosecution. Italian newspapers said Thursday there was now political war between Berlusconi, who is also under attack over sex scandal allegations, and President Giorgio Napolitano who has insisted he will defend the country's constitution. After the court's bombshell ruling against him, Berlusconi said the trials he now risks were... Read Full Story
The appeals trial of a British lawyer who has been convicted in a corruption case involving Silvio Berlusconi opened Friday in Milan, with defense lawyers saying they want the Italian premier to testify. David Mills was found guilty of corruption in February and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. He has maintained his innocence and sought the appeal. Berlusconi was originally a co-defendant in the trial. He was charged with ordering a payment of at least $600,000 to Mills in 1997 in... Read Full Story
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