Berlusconi Sex Scandal

• Berlusconi paid mafia protection money, Italian court says

  Silvio Berlusconi paid the Sicilian mafia "conspicuous sums" of protection money in the 1970s, Italy's highest appeal court said in a ruling, published in part by Italian media today.

• Wiretapped, Ruby says Berlusconi told her to lie

  The Morocco born nightclub dancer at the centre of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial told friends he was ready to pay millions for her silence, according to wiretaps published on Monday.

• Berlusconi boasts of sleeping with eight women in one night

  The conversations, wire-tapped as part of a probe into an alleged prostitution ring surrounding Berlusconi, also suggested for the first time that he gave money to the women he allegedly slept with, contradicting his repeated insistence that he never paid for sex, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.

• Berlusconi had sex with teen 13 times: Prosecutors

  Premier Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with an under-age Moroccan teen 13 times at his villa near Milan, prosecutors have said in a document filed seeking indictments against three aides for allegedly soliciting prostitutes for the Italian leader.The seven-page document, obtained by The Associated Press, alleges that the sex-fueled parties started ...

• Indicted Berlusconi says he's not worried

  Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi downplayed the effects an impending prostitution trial may have on his government and political career, saying hours before a meeting with Russia's president Wednesday that he wasn't worried.It was the first public comment by the 74-year-old leader since he was indicted Tuesday on charges he paid for sex with a 17-...

• Women hold nationwide anti-Berlusconi protests, say 'Italy is not a brothel'

  Thousands of Italian women turned out across the country to protest against tainted Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, saying his dalliances with young women humiliated sex as a whole.Thousands of protesters marched through more than sixty towns and cities across the country carrying banners that read, "Italy is not a brothel".Berlusconi is being in...