Karima El Mahrough, nicknamed Ruby, smiles in Milan, Italy. -- PHOTO: AP
ROME - DOZENS of naked women surround the Italian prime minister vying with each other to arouse him - Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties as reportedly described to prosecutors by a key participant.
'After dinner we went into a hall in the basement where the bunga bunga was held,' Karima El Mahroug, a pole dancer nicknamed 'Ruby the Heart Stealer', was quoted as saying to investigators in leaks published by La Repubblica daily.
'All the girls were naked during the bung bunga and I had the feeling that they were competing with each other to make Berlusconi notice them by performing more and more daring sexual acts,' she was quoted as saying.
Ms Mahroug is the woman prosecutors say Berlusconi paid to have sex with at his luxury villa outside Milan when she was just 17 - a crime in Italy - though both parties deny it.
Mr Berlusconi is also accused of abusing his power by getting her released from police custody in a later incident when she had been arrested for theft.
Prosecutors say he was ensuring his sex offences remained secret, while his lawyers say he thought she was former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's niece. Mr Berlusconi faces trial on both charges - which he vehemently denies - starting on April 6. -- AFP
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