The prostitute at the center of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal claims in a new book that she slept with him on the understanding he would help her set up a countryside inn but she got "nothing" in return.
| Other than sex with a 73 year old man, you mean ... |
In "Gradisca, Presidente," (At Your Pleasure, Premier), D'Addario elaborates on her earlier accounts of the night she spent with Berlusconi in his Rome residence. The conservative leader has said he has never paid for sex and is the victim of someone seeking to create a scandal.
D'Addario says she gave Berlusconi her body hoping he would help her open a countryside inn in southern Italy, where she was raised. In the book she documents how her efforts to open the hotel had been stymied over the years by Italy's bureaucracy.
The 73-year-old media mogul's wife, Veronica Lario, said last spring she is divorcing Berlusconi for what she called his infatuation with attractive young women.
"(Berlusconi) didn't pay me. It wasn't money he had to give me, he promised me something else," D'Addario writes in the book. "I gave him my body, he (gave me) nothing."
He probably didn't help because even he couldn't navigate through the Italian bureaucracy. |