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Berlusconi Admits Paying Ruby $87K -- for Beauty Parlor Equipment
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsFor the first time, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has admitted to paying a teenage erotic dancer $87,000, but insists the whopping payment wasn't for sex but to save her from a life of prostitution. Mired in a sex scandal that threatens to end his political career, Berlusconi acknowledged that he gave Moroccan-born Karima El Mahroug, aka "Ruby the Heart Stealer," a huge sum of money. But he said it was to pay for laser hair removal equipment for a beauty parlor the 17-year-old dreamed of opening with a friend. Berlusconi, 74, told reporters Monday that he suspected that Mahroug ...
Italy's Berlusconi: I'm Too Old for So Much Sex
By not in system - AOL NewsROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi has sat down with the enemy, telling an opposition newspaper that he is too old to have had all the sexual encounters he is accused of by Italian prosecutors. The 74-year-old faces trial in Milan next month over charges he paid for sex with a Moroccan minor and used his influence to try to cover it up. In court documents, prosecutors have identified 33 women, including the Moroccan teenager, who allegedly prostituted themselves during parties at Berlusconi's villa near Milan. Andrew Medichini, AP Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said in a recent ...
Prince Andrew's Role as Trade Envoy in Doubt Over Ties to Pedophile
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsPrince Andrew's future as a trade envoy for the U.K. may be in doubt following new revelations about his ties with a billionaire U.S. sex offender, according to reports by British media. The Duke of York has come under fire because of his 16-year friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, whom he has known since the early 1990s and met as recently as December in New York. Epstein, 58, was accused of sex offenses by several underage girls and sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution. Zuma / Getty Images Prince Andrew, right, has come under ...
Opinion: Why Decriminalize Child Prostitution?
By not in system - AOL NewsBelieve it or not, the average age for a girl entering prostitution is 13 years old, and the average age is declining as buyers want younger and younger children. Nobody knows exactly how many kids end up being sold for sexual services, but the number is in the multiple thousands and the problem grows bigger and expands to more cities and towns every year. But even one child victim is one too many. Decent people are appalled and want to stop this outrage. However, one "good sounding" solution that many states are considering will surely produce unintended negative consequences that will make ...
Italian Protesters to Toss Panties at Berlusconi
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsSome Italian women are taking off their panties for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but not quite for the purpose he'd like. Italian women fed up with their prime minister's womanizing and alleged involvement in a prostitution ring plan to demonstrate Sunday at Berlusconi's mansion outside Milan. But instead of hurling tomatoes, eggs or just insults over the mansion's fence, they've opted for another rather ironic projectile: their underwear. Sunday's protest is one of several planned for this weekend, as Italians are calling for their prime minister's resignation amid allegations that he ...
Airline Crews to Ground Sex Traffickers Heading to Super Bowl
By Linda Jones - AOL NewsDALLAS -- Sex traffickers who plan to come to Dallas to conduct business during the Super Bowl weekend might find themselves grounded if they travel by plane. Employees from at least five airlines will attend a special training session this week to learn how to get better at recognizing sex traffickers among travelers and learn what security measures to take. "We want to become especially vigilant during the week before the Super Bowl," said Nancy Rivard, executive director of Airline Ambassadors, a humanitarian group of flight attendants that has aided victims of sex trafficking ...
Shailey Tripp, Todd Palin, the National Enquirer and a Journalistic Conundrum
By David Knowles - AOL NewsHave you heard the news reports? Todd Palin, the husband of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is said to have been caught having an affair with Shailey Tripp, a 36-year-old massage therapist turned prostitution house madam. The problem with the allegations? They come to the world via the National Enquirer. Yes, that would be the same tabloid that first brought the world news of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter, as well as photos of Edwards holding his love child. That coverage even landed the paper, which often pays its sources for information, a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Here, then, ...
Ruby Rubacuori: 5 Facts on the Belly Dancer in the Silvio Berlusconi Scandal
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsWill a Moroccan belly dancer bring down Silvio Berlusconi? Eighteen-year-old Ruby Rubacuori, who said she got 7,000 euros and a Damiani necklace from the Italian prime minister, is central to allegations that Berlusconi paid for sexual encounters with the then-17-year-old girl and used his political power to cover up their relations. Rubacuori insists that she was never intimate with Berlusconi. "It [was] the first time in my life that a man has not tried to take me to bed. He behaved like a father, I swear," she told La Repubblica in October 2010. But that won't stop Italian authorities ...
Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi in Prostitution Probe
By not in system - AOL NewsROME - Premier Silvio Berlusconi is under investigation in a prostitution case involving a 17-year-old Moroccan girl, a case his lawyers on Friday called "absurd and groundless." Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera, reported that the 74-year-old premier is suspected of having sex with the minor and then abusing his power in trying to cover up the encounters with the girl, nicknamed Ruby by the press. Berlusconi's attorneys, Nicolo Ghedini and Piero Longo, confirmed the investigation hours later, saying probe represented a "very serious interference in the prime minister's private ...
Judge Releases Alleged Prostitution Client List to Defense
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA federal judge has ordered the government to turn over to a defense lawyer a list of 30,000 names allegedly tied to a massive prostitution ring. Judge Arthur Tarnow in Detroit told prosecutors to give the list to the lawyer for a man accused of operating an international sex ring out of Miami. Tarnow ruled that the list, to be contained on a secure computer disk, cannot be copied or made public. The U.S. Attorney's Office had argued that the information in the little black book -- which includes not only client names but also addresses and phone numbers -- was too sensitive to be ...
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