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Berlusconi Admits Paying Ruby $87K -- for Beauty Parlor Equipment

By Lauren FrayerApr 12th 2011 – 9:42AM
Andreas Rentz, Getty Images

Andreas Rentz, Getty Images

For the first time, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has admitted to paying a teenage erotic dancer $87,000, but insists the whopping payment wasn't for sex but to save her from a life of prostitution. Mired in a sex scandal that threatens to end his political career, Berlusconi acknowledged that he gave...

Italy's Berlusconi: I'm Too Old for So Much Sex

Mar 16th 2011 – 8:55AM
Andrew Medichini, AP

Andrew Medichini, AP

ROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi has sat down with the enemy, telling an opposition newspaper that he is too old to have had all the sexual encounters he is accused of by Italian prosecutors. The 74-year-old faces trial in Milan next month over charges he paid for sex with a Moroccan minor and used his influence to try...

Prince Andrew's Role as Trade Envoy in Doubt Over Ties to Pedophile

By Dana KennedyMar 7th 2011 – 2:15PM
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Zuma / Getty Images

Prince Andrew's future as a trade envoy for the U.K. may be in doubt following new revelations about his ties with a billionaire U.S. sex offender, according to reports by British media. The Duke of York has come under fire because of his 16-year friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, whom he has known since the early...

Opinion: Why Decriminalize Child Prostitution?

Mar 4th 2011 – 5:00AM

Believe it or not, the average age for a girl entering prostitution is 13 years old, and the average age is declining as buyers want younger and younger children. Nobody knows exactly how many kids end up being sold for sexual services, but the number is in the multiple thousands and the problem grows bigger and expands to...

Italian Protesters to Toss Panties at Berlusconi

By Lauren FrayerFeb 2nd 2011 – 10:19AM
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Filippo Monteforte, AFP / Getty Images

Some Italian women are taking off their panties for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but not quite for the purpose he'd like. Italian women fed up with their prime minister's womanizing and alleged involvement in a prostitution ring plan to demonstrate Sunday at Berlusconi's mansion outside Milan. But instead of hurling...

Background on Prostitution

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