Everybody Hugs Silvio

“The Prime Minister needs cuddles. I have seen a few things in my time but not this, twenty women for one man. At orgies there are more or less the same number of men and women, but here there was only one man with copulation rights — the Prime Minister.”
-Patrizia D’Addario, the prostitute at the center of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitute-fucking scandal, recounts the party at which she met the man. The Times has excerpts from her new memoir, Gradisca, Presidente (Take Your Pleasure, Prime Minister), including the part where “I got up and went to the bathroom, partly to have a pee and partly to change the cassette in my recorder.”