The escort at the heart of a sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gives graphic details of their alleged lovemaking in a book published yesterday, and says she has been attacked and threatened since.
Patrizia D’Addario, in her memoir “Enjoy, Prime Minister,” describes a party held at Berlusconi’s Rome palace and gives intimate details of a night spent with the 73-year-old premier in a bed given to him by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
D’Addario, 42, describes how Berlusconi surrounded himself with dozens of young women in a “harem,” whom he cuddled and kissed.
“Being an escort, I thought I’d seen lots of things, but not this: 20 girls for just one man,” she says in the book. “Here the other men had no say. There was just one man with the right to copulate: the prime minister.”
The prime minister’s office said it had no comment to make on the publication of the book.
D’Addario’s allegations convulsed Italy when she first came forward in June with audio recordings of a man she said was the prime minister.
The escort, who hoped Berlusconi would “change her life” by backing her plans to develop a hotel complex, said he showed guests two hours of videos about himself. At one point in a campaign video, they burst out singing his election anthem, “Thank goodness for Silvio.”
Another evening in November, Berlusconi sent the other guests home early and took D’Addario on a tour of the palace ending in his bedroom, she said. After showering, Berlusconi entered in white silk pajamas and dressing gown, and they had sex, she says.
D’Addario was paid to attend the party by businessman Giampaolo Tarantini. Italian newspapers have quoted Tarantini as acknowledging that he helped procure female guests for parties at Berlusconi’s house.
Berlusconi has publicly said he was not aware that D’Addario was a call girl, but has never explicitly denied their night together.
D’Addario claims she felt pressured into going public with her allegations after a series of threats and attacks. She says her house was robbed by thieves who took her clothes, phone book and computer, but left her expensive TV set.
She also says that on three occasions, men claiming to be police forced their way into her apartment, on one occasion trying to rape her.