Says Berlusconi told her bunga bunga was a harem he copied from friend Muammar Gaddafi

Mahroug is the woman prosecutors say Berlusconi paid to have sex with at his luxury villa outside Milan when she was just 17 — a crime in Italy — though both parties deny it. Berlusconi is also accused of abusing his power by getting her released from police custody in a later incident when she had been arrested for theft.

Prosecutors said he was ensuring his sex offences remained secret,while his lawyers say he thought she was former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s niece. Berlusconi faces trial on both charges — which he vehemently denies — starting on April 6. In one of her quoted statements,the Mahroug described her first meeting with Berlusconi at his residence in February 2010.

“That evening Berlusconi told me that the bunga bunga was a harem that he copied from his friend (Libyan leader Muammar) Gaddafi in which girls strip off and have to give him ‘physical pleasures’,” she reportedly said. “The Prime Minister took me to his office and led me to understand that my life would change completely if I took part in the bunga bunga,” she added.

She said she refused to take part the first time but joined Berlusconi the second time she visited in March,although she kept her clothes on. “I didn’t strip off and I didn’t perform sex acts,” she said. “I was the only girl with my clothes on,” she said.