Prostitute 'taped night with Berlusconi'

An Italian news magazine said today it has tape recordings of the night Premier Silvio Berlusconi spent with a prostitute in which the premier is heard asking her to wait for him in bed while he showers.

The escort, Patrizia D’Addario, said she taped her two encounters with Mr Berlusconi at parties he threw for young women at his residence that have become the source of scandal.