Berlusconi: prostitution thrived at his homes, his private life is “bewildering”, according to judge

Saturday, 28 April 2014. Publishing the motivations of a conviction related to the bunga-bunga parties, a Court in Bari defines Silvio Berlusconi's private life as “bewildering” and states that “beyond a formal appearance of elegant dinners” there was ”a thriving prostitution” orchestrated by Gianpaolo Tarantini for the benefit of the former Italian prime minister.

Gianpaolo Tarantini – a man linked to Mr Berlusconi's, for good and for bad – founded a real “recruitment agency” for women offering services consisting in “sexual performances”, according to the judge Ambrogio Marrone, linked to the so-called bunga-bunga parties held in the Arcore's villa of the Italian billionaire, or in his residence in Rome, Palazzo Grazioli.

Gianpaolo Tarantini (with his wife), the main supplier of women for Berlusconi

The payments for the above mentioned services were called alternatively “envelope”, “gift”, “cachet” or “token”, and were handed over to the girls directly by Silvio Berlusconi, usually on the day of the departure of the call girls, the day after the «sexual encounters, occurred the night before, with the women on duty». 

All this happened when Silvio Berlusconi was the head of the Italian government, and he tried to disguised the “thriving prostitution” as “elegant dinners”. 

Among other things, the judge also highlighted a «situation of commercialization of the female body and the consideration of women as mere objects likely to trade for sexual purposes.», eve though he identified ”two distinct categories” of women recruited and brought to the party of former prime minister, «the so-called “easy girls”, that is willing to grant sexual favours, and those that were used as frame for the event, the “image girls”». 

Sabina Beganovic, inventor of the bunga-bunga nights

The under-age Karima El-Mahroug (aka Ruby the Heart Stealer) allegedly belonged to the fist category, and received quite a huge amount of many (which is now spending here and there...)

Another key person of the “bawdy nights” was the actress Sabina Beganovic (aka Began), alternatively dubbed “a Tarantini in a skirt” or “Tarantini's teacher”, who – by her admission – was somehow the origin of the “bunga-bunga” name, being that her nickname (a mean, one of the monikers, since she's also called the Queen Bee, for some reasons).

Looks like the sex scandals are going to haunt Mr Berlusconi for a long time.