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# Silvio Berlusconi: sex charges 'ludicrous'
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## Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has appeared on television denying
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allegations he paid for sex with a dancer.
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TelegraphPlayer-8264142
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12:44PM GMT 17 Jan 2011
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Prosecutors are investigating whether Mr Berlusconi paid for sex with the then
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17-year-old girl, Karima El Mahroug, who gave herself the stage name of Ruby
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Rubacuori, or Ruby the Heart Stealer and who attended at least one dinner at
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his mansion outside Milan where she said she witnessed orgies nicknamed
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"bunga-bunga" parties.
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Paying for sex with a woman under the age of 18 is a crime in Italy and Mr
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Berlusconi faces a prison sentence of up to three years if the allegations are
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proved.
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Prosecutors want to interview him this week and insist that he face trial
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immediately.
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The 74-year-old prime minister allegedly kept up to 14 women in apartments in
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Milano II, a housing estate he built on the outskirts of Milan in the 1970s.
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Police allegedly found sex toys, gifts of expensive jewellery and envelopes
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stuffed with 20,000 euros (£16,800) in cash in the flats.
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* ## [Berlusconi's 'sex orgy' flats found, say prosecutors][1]
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Mr Berlusconi, who defeated a parliamentary no confidence vote last month,
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said at the weekend that the investigation was a politically-motivated attempt
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to destroy him by Left-wing prosecutors.
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