Prosecutors Link 2nd Teen to Berlusconi

Investigators hand over 227-page dossier in case
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 28, 2011 11:25 AM CST
Prosecutors Link 2nd Teen to Berlusconi
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi leaves the chamber after winning a confidence vote at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011.   (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Things keep getting messier for Silvio Berlusconi: Now prosecutors claim there’s a second underage girl mixed up in his series of sex scandals. Brazilian showgirl Iris Berardi was just 17 when she visited the Italian prime minister at his summer villa and his palazzo, prosecutors hold. Meanwhile, another woman in the scandal—currently under investigation for finding prostitutes for the PM—has been taped calling him “a piece of ----,” the Telegraph reports.

In the recording, Nicole Minetti, whom Berlusconi helped into politics, calls him an “old man” who destroyed her life and “is trying to save his own flabby ----.” But in another intercepted call, she tells a former Playboy model that “if he goes down, we all go down.” Prosecutors last week handed parliament a 227-page dossier containing the allegations and descriptions of Berlusconi’s so-called “bunga bunga” parties, at which he reportedly “touched the intimate parts” of showgirls. Click for more bunga bunga details.
(More Silvio Berlusconi stories.)

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