Patrizia D’Addario, a former model and escort girl, said that she had given prosecutors audio tapes but also had secretly recorded video footage of her encounters in the Prime Minister’s Rome residence. Adding: “Certainly he knew that I was an escort.”

She said she was not the only escort present at two parties she attended at Berlusconi’s Rome residence. “When I arrived it seemed like a harem,” she told the current affairs programme Annozero last night.

Berlusconi has denied ever paying for sex and has said he was unaware escorts were brought to his parties by Gianpaolo Tarantini, a Bari businessman being investigated for drug dealing and prostitution. Berlusconi is not under investigation.
D’Addario’s visits to Berlusconi’s residence were revealed in June. She has been widely interviewed by newspapers but had never appeared live on Italian television.

A spokesman for Berlusconi, Paolo Bonaiuti, said Annozero was relying on “gossip and peeping through a keyhole”.

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