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...Gianguerino Cafasso that has now been ruled a homicide. But he has connections to both people. Cafasso had reportedly produced an incriminating video that showed Marrazzo indulging in both drugs and the transsexual prostitutes. And investigators say Brenda was one of the prostitutes at the center of the sex scandal. (See pictures of Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party-guy private life has dominated Italy's public discourse for more than six months. But his alleged dalliances with prostitutes and underage girls is getting some competition from another scandal unfolding in Rome. This one involves a TV-host-turned-governor who was forced to admit to a long history of frequenting transsexual prostitutes. This week, that scandal received the tangential frisson of murder...
Marrazzo's scandal is the third major public controversy in four years involving prominent Italian men and transgender prostitutes. In 2005, Lapo Elkann, the grandson of the former head of the Fiat auto dynasty Gianni Agnelli, was rushed to the hospital when he overdosed on cocaine at the Turin apartment of a transsexual prostitute. (He survived.) Two years later, photographs surfaced of Silvio Sircana, chief spokesman for then-Prime Minister Romano Prodi, having a conversation with what appeared to be a transvestite prostitute on the outskirts of Rome. Sircana insisted he was not soliciting the prostitute...
Even many of our heroes turned out to be badly flawed, from doping by athletes in baseball, cycling and the Olympics to the endless political scandals and sex scandals. And yes, we couldn't get enough of them on the 24-hour cable news, blogs and reality TV that chronicle and reflect this unsavory maw. The rise of all manner of new media and the lack of barriers to criticism from the blogosphere seemed to intensify every scandal and left very few public figures unsullied. Sure, some amazingly great things happened this decade, from the stunning rise of China...
...private dining room at the back of Quincy dining hall, where he saw Holoshitz, McLeod, and Schwartz writing on a laptop. Schwartz had encouraged a Crimson reporter an hour earlier to come to Quincy House, texting first “Just come” and then “Scandal...