Italian Prime Minister in trouble for underage pole dancer scandal
By Brian FairbanksNovember 13th, 2010, 4:37 pmComments (8)
An underage Moroccan pole dancer may end up spelling the end for Sivlio Berlusconi's power. The Italian Prime Minister has managed to duck a seemingly endless parade of sex scandals that would have brought Bill Clinton down in a day, but this one may be too disastrous to avoid.
That's because, although other cases may have had similar elements, this is the first that has the dangerous trifecta: prostitution, an underage girl and a victim who has already told the police everything.
Ruby Heartthrob is a Moroccan teenage runaway who claims to have been passed around as a hooker by Berlusconi's inner circle. She also states emphatically that she performed a striptease at parties attended by the PM. Berlusconi's big mistake may have been to call up police headquarters and demand the release of the young runaway after she was charged with theft, which tied him to the case.
Roberto Benigni, of all people, may also have helped link Berlusconi to the scandal, taking to his popular television comedy show to lampoon the politician for saying the Mafia "put" underage girls in his bed as some sort of vendetta. In doing so, Benigni continued to defy Berlusconi's media stranglehold, which had prevented similar charges from gaining much traction.
As his party's co-founder publicly admitted it was time to lay down the law, it seems even Berlusconi may not be powerful enough to buy or muscle his way out of this one.
Commentarium (8 Comments)
Actually, she denies stripping at the parties (though she does work as an exotic dancer elsewhere, as this video seems to prove (Verrrry NSFW, go to 2'17'' for the goods.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpQa7zO1JN0
The dirt here is that Berlusconi managed to get her out of a police station when she was arrested on suspicion of theft by saying the was "President Mubarak's granddaughter". Yes, really. Now the officer in charge of authorizing her release says she never did give consent to the girl's release and subsequent placement in the care of Nicole Minetti (Berlusconi's former dental hygienist, currently elected for office at the Regional Council of Lombardy). It's all very shady.
Ultimately though, what is bringing Berlusconi down is the fact that one of his political allies has founded a new party and left him behind, thus he no longer has the majority of the seats in Parliament. That is pretty much it. Public opinion doesn't count for much, nor do ethics.
At least he's not gay.
better gay than a pedo...
Oh come on, you prudes. Why is everyone so upset that a politico is involved with a young tart? Nothing new there. How about some shots of her so we can judge for ourselves if she is worthy of bringing down a prime minister?
Twolane: Nice to know you share the Italian PM's taste in pedophillia.
@John: Yeah, that's it, you dumbass. I'm a pedo. I strongly suspect you're American. In that case, you should be aware that the age of consent varies from country to country, and even within different areas of the same country. What America deems to be morally acceptable - i.e., torture, assassinating its citizens without due process, imprisoning citizens and others without due process, fabricating evidence, ignoring DNA evidence, and on and on - should be more of a concern for you, John, than whether a poster on a sex blog is a pedo. Don't you think, John? Now go out and vote somewhere.
Just so everyone knows, my previous comment was quoting Berlusconi's response to this whole scandal. I don't actually think that. Just realized that sarcasm doesn't work well over the net.
HHIS I should have tuhhogt of that!