The escort girl at the centre of the scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi has hit back at the Italian Prime Minister’s claims that she was part of an organised “mission” to discredit him.
Patrizia D’Addario, 42, claims to have spent the night with the 72-year-old billionaire at his residence in Rome the night Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.
Yesterday she rejected comments by Mr Berlusconi that “someone sent her with a very precise aim”, repeating her allegations that she stayed overnight at Palazzo Grazioli in exchange for help with a personal building project.
“I knew that I would be accused of the worst kind of wickedness but I cannot be attacked because I have always told the truth, and indeed Berlusconi cannot deny the circumstances that I have revealed,” she told the newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
Prosecutors in Bari, southern Italy, are investigating audio recordings, said to have been taped secretly by Ms D’Addario in Mr Berlusconi’s bedroom, that she insists will prove their alleged encounters.
They have already questioned three other hostesses who were also invited to dinner at Mr Berlusconi’s private home in Rome on November 4, the night of the American presidential election.
The next morning, as America celebrated the election of its first black president, one of the women, Barbara Montereale, 23, claimed that Ms D’Addario finally returned to the hotel room that they were meant to be sharing and confided that she had had sex with the Italian leader.
Addressing the scandal for the first time this week, Mr Berlusconi said in an interview with the gossip magazine Chi that he had been the victim of a set-up and that he would never pay for sex.
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