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...latest Berlusconi tidbit is potentially the most damaging. On June 17, investigators in the southern city of Bari confirmed they were carrying out a criminal investigation into allegations that businessman Giampaolo Tarantini had hired prostitutes to attend several Berlusconi bashes, although Berlusconi himself is not under investigation...
...paid to attend the Nov. 4 party, but left after dinner. Montereale described her friend as a professional escort and said D'Addario had told her she'd had sex with Berlusconi at the party. In interviews since, D'Addario has neither confirmed nor denied Montereale's account. Tarantini told Italian news agency ANSA that he only reimbursed the women for their travel and expenses, and that Berlusconi didn't know about the payments...
...Berlusconi largely quieted that episode with explicit denials of anything "spicy" in his relationship with Letizia. But a potentially more damaging turn came last week, when investigators in the southern city of Bari confirmed that they were probing accusations that a local businessman, Giampaolo Tarantini, paid for women to attend dinners and parties at Berlusconi's private Rome residence, Palazzo Grazioli, and his villa on the island of Sardinia. One of the women, Patrizia D'Addario, had told Milan daily Corriere della Sera that she was paid several thousand euros to attend two dinner parties at Palazzo Grazioli last fall...
...Tarantini told Italian news agency ANSA that he reimbursed the women only for their travel and expenses, adding that Berlusconi didn't know about the payments...