FORMER Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi liked to talk about politics and economics with female invitees to his so-called bunga bunga dinner parties, a court in Milan heard on Monday.
Over the past weeks, showgirls and Berlusconi associates have testified in a trial that sees the maverick politician accused of paying for sex with a dancer, when she was still a minor, and later pressuring the police to release her after she was held on suspicion of theft.
"Normally, Berlusconi would start talking about current affairs, economics and football and then ask the girls what they thought about a certain political situation or about the financial crisis," Romanian-born student Ioana Claudia Amarghioalei told the court.
Amarghioalei, 22, said she first met the 76-year-old Berlusconi when she was 19 and was invited for dinner at his villa outside Milan about 15 times. "I never saw scenes of a sexual nature, strip-teases or Berlusconi touching intimate parts," she told judges.
Like other girls who testified before her, Amarghioalei said Berlusconi was providing for her living expenses, by paying her about 2,500 euros (3,250 dollars) a month.
Another witness, former Italian Big Brother contestant Giovanna Rigato, said she saw girls queuing up to receive money while they were in Berlusconi's villa. Rigato, 31, said she had a 50,000-euro-a-year contract with Mediaset, Berlusconi's media firm.
The dancer at the centre of the Berlusconi trial, Moroccan-born Karima el-Mahroug, also known as Ruby Rubacuori, is expected to appear as a witness for the defence on December 10.
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