Berlusconi Sex Scandal Widens As Further Probe Opened

ROME — Italian prosecutors are looking into a newspaper report alleging that two Italians offered cash to a Moroccan official to change the birth certificate of the teenage girl at the center of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's prostitution scandal.

Berlusconi faces trial on charges he paid for sex with a Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby, who at the time was a minor.

Il Fatto Quotidiano, a leftist newspaper opposed to Berlusconi, said two Italian men traveled to Morocco in February and sought to bribe a registry office employee into changing Ruby's year of birth from 1992 to 1990.

Berlusconi has denied wrongdoing. His lawyers have filed a complaint to Rome prosecutors, saying they feared a setup.

ANSA reported the prosecutors opened the investigation Monday.

Comments

[RealistBC]

04:52 AM on 03/27/2011

Berlesconi: "I plead insanity, your Honor. I'm crazy about that girl!"

[tallisse]

06:50 PM on 03/15/2011

The probe needs to open it wider

[SPacific]

05:17 PM on 03/15/2011

Berlusconi was caught due to a law that he helped enact in 2006: raising the age for legal prostitution in Italy from 16 to 18 years old....How absolutely sweet justice can be.......

[pablopcasso]

03:21 PM on 03/15/2011

Hee hee...you said probe.

[Milhouse901]

02:21 PM on 03/15/2011

what else do you expect from the country that invented corruption.

[Max Shaw]

12:27 PM on 03/15/2011

If she said she didnt have sex with him, why is this still an issue? If they want to get him out of office they should find another angle. I feel like this is going to get a lot more messy for everyone, and I actually feel bad for this girl who no matter what, will be dragged into this again and again.

[Dolfina]

03:39 PM on 03/15/2011

she said he didn't "touch her with a finger"...sex toys?

[TheSpiderMind]

10:21 AM on 03/15/2011

I don't think this women is that stunning, it appears Berlusconi gave her the cash simply because she was underage-- easily replaceable. Pedo?

[duxguts]

09:35 AM on 03/15/2011

The probe opened what exactly?

[Dolfina]

03:40 PM on 03/15/2011

The Matrix

[rbchilds]

09:32 AM on 03/15/2011

Hey Willis, "Ain't nobody gonna open my probe".

[Dolfina]

03:41 PM on 03/15/2011

Hey Willis, "Ain't nonpdu gonna probe my opening.

[JoeBoy254]

06:52 AM on 03/15/2011

Leave the guy alone. He has good taste in women and that should be that. The "Bill Clinton" of the Mediterranean, no less. They concentrate more on the PM than what is really going on around them. The Italians have been hanging with the Americans too long and our bad habits are rubbing off on them.

[ebonhand]

07:46 AM on 03/15/2011

Yeah, like having your Prime Minister (and G8 member) sleep with under aged hookers and then try to cover it up isn't a problem. He is an embarrassment and needs to go.

[Michael Garvin]

04:00 PM on 03/15/2011

Uh I don't know, the term "underage hooker" seems like one big oxymoron. Now if this was some 15 year old high school virgin who made a bad choice and had her life shattered from this then that is different.

But if this girl is so promiscuous what's the problem. Girls do grow up and mature faster in the EU than over here in America. Nevertheless, if this guy is found guilty of statutory or sex misconduct how is this guy still in office?

[JoeBoy254]

01:05 AM on 03/16/2011

Show me where his performance as PM was harmed are a result of this relationship. Underaged my aunt Fannie. What about 15 minutes or so. This is Italy and Italy marches to a different drummer. Former prostiutes and porn stars as cabinet ministers and members of their Parliment. Need I say more.....

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

06:08 AM on 03/15/2011

Band name from the 70's - W.R. GAS

Who Really Gives a Sh@#$T.

[Ramkshrestha]

04:58 AM on 03/15/2011

If the Prime Minister resigns, this issue could not be any more issue.

[americanfreedoMYTH]

12:37 AM on 03/15/2011

she loks like someone you could easily find on the west side of chicago; is this the best a billionaire can do?

[duxguts]

09:36 AM on 03/15/2011

Yes I don't think Ruby's too concerned where her next meal is coming from.

[JPETERB]

11:49 PM on 03/14/2011

Berlusconi is a wealthy, powerful, self centered, vain and insecure old man who should not be leading even a flock of sheep. Or, maybe he already is.

[ivan ko]

09:46 PM on 03/14/2011

Even after Berlusconi is dead there still will be allegations.

[JailNeoconVicts]

10:36 PM on 03/14/2011

Even after Berlusconi is dead he will still be groping underage girls. There's no stopping him.

[head-out-of-sand]

11:37 PM on 03/14/2011

But he was a dedicated GWB ally.

[Dolfina]

03:44 PM on 03/15/2011

Horny, old zombie?