‘I’ve never paid for sex – it’s all in the chase’

ITALIAN premier Silvio Berlusconi yesterday publicly denied ever paying women for sex, as he continues to struggle with a growing scandal over his links to young models and starlets.

‘I’ve never paid for sex – it’s all in the chase’

The 72-year-old billionaire gave his first direct response to the claims in an interview with gossip magazine Chi. Previously, he had dismissed as “garbage” and a smear campaign reports that an acquaintance of his had paid at least three women to attend parties at his residences.

“I have never paid a woman,” Berlusconi said in the article. “I never understood what the satisfaction is when you are missing the pleasure of conquest.”

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