Strippers ‘dressed as nuns for Berlusconi’
SILVIO Berlusconi watched girls dressed as nuns strip and perform a pole dance, a court heard yesterday.
The former Italian premier claims his bunga-bunga parties were ‘convivial dinners, with wine, food, talking and singing’.
But yesterday a young woman invited along to one of the notorious gatherings spoke of her shock at what she saw.
Model Imane Fadil, 27, was giving evidence at the trial of Berlusconi on sex and abuse of office charges. Miss Fadil also described how girls in AC Milan football kits undressed to their G-strings while another pair performed an erotic dance.
Dozens of other young women are due to testify, as well as actor George Clooney and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
Miss Fadil said that she had attended the parties – held in the basement of Berlusconi’s villa – in the hope of securing a job as a presenter on one of the media mogul’s TV channels.
Girls were apparently recruited by regional councillor Nicole Minetti, 26, a member of his political party, and paid to dance for him and his cronies.
Miss Fadil told the hearing in Milan of an evening in February 2010 at the villa in nearby Arcore. She said: ‘I saw Nicole Minetti and Barbara Fagioli [another guest] dressed in black tunics, wearing white headcaps and a crucifix and then they stripped off … and were left just in their underwear.
‘Another evening some of the girls were wearing AC Milan shirts. One girl, Iris Berardi, was dressed as [player] Ronaldinho … and she danced until she was left wearing a G-string.’ Miss Fadil said that the girls touched themselves and also allowed Berlusconi, 75, to touch them.
She added: ‘I went to the parties because Berlusconi had promised me a job. I was shocked with what I saw.’
Miss Fadil said every time she went to a party there had been ‘guests taking their clothes off’.
She recalled one where TV hopefuls Roberta Nigra and Lisa Barizonte were dancing. Miss Fadil said: ‘Lisa removed Roberta’s underwear, they then both began touching each other. Then Nicole got involved.’
She said that she had been given envelopes of cash but never stayed the night – though other women were very willing to do so. Prosecutors say one of the girls paid for sex was belly dancer Karima El Mahroug.
Berlusconi is said to have had sex with her when she was 17 but denies prostitution with a minor. He is also denies using his influence have her freed after she was held for theft in May 2010. The trial continues.