The Italian prostitute at the centre of a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi has explicitly claimed for the first time that she had sex with the Italian prime minister.
Since first alleging she spent a night last November at Berlusconi’s Rome residence, Patrizia D’Addario has limited herself to saying she shared a bed with the 73-year-old prime minister. But in Gradisca, Presidente ‑ Take Your Pleasure, Prime Minister ‑ D’Addario writes: “He told me he wanted contact with my skin, he held me tight, he took my breath away. I took him inside me, he suffocated me with kisses.”
“This is the first time she has really made it clear that they had sex,” said Maddalena Tulanti, an Italian journalist who co-wrote the book with D’Addario.
Berlusconi has denied paying for sex or knowing that Giampaolo Tarantini, the businessman who says he introduced Berlusconi to D’Addario, had offered her and other women money to spend the night at Berlusconi’s residence. Tarantini is being investigated for aiding and abetting prostitution. Berlusconi is not under investigation.
