Berlusconi ‘slept with prostitute in return for help with inn’

THE prostitute at the centre of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal claims in a new book that she slept with him on the understanding he would help her set up a countryside inn but she got “nothing” in return.

Patrizia D’Addario, whose memoir went on sale yesterday in Italy, writes she feels betrayed and has been frightened by strange threats, including the ransacking of her home, since she revealed this year that she had taped-recorded her purported bedroom encounter with Berlusconi.

In Gradisca, Presidente, (At Your Pleasure, Premier), D’Addario elaborates on her earlier accounts of the night she spent with Berlusconi in his Rome residence.