Karima El Mahroug, an Italo-Moroccan
woman and former exotic dancer and underage prostitute known as
Ruby Heartstealer, on Monday wrote "Farewell President" over an
image of a broken heart at the death of 86-year-old four-time
former premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, who was
convicted of paying her for sex before being subsequently
cleared when judges ruled he could not have known how young she
was.
Berlusconi once got his parliamentary majority to back his claim
that El Mahroug was the niece or granddaughter of former
Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, and he had had to have her
sprung from a Milan police station in order to avoid a
diplomatic incident.
El Mahroug and another 26 young women who attended Berlusconi's
'bunga bunga' parties were recently acquitted, on a
technicality, of falsely backing the late premier's claim that
his soirees were elegant and innocent affairs.
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