Hardly a night goes by that Karima el-Mahroug does not think of what her life would be like if she had never met Silvio Berlusconi. Fourteen years ago, Ms. el-Mahroug, then 17 and known as the nightclub dancer Ruby Heart-Stealer, suddenly found herself at the center of a national scandal and global tabloid frenzy. Mr. Berlusconi, Italy’s prime minister at the time, was accused of paying her for sex during bacchanals he hosted at his villa near M…
With a long article, the New York Times reconstructs the scandal of 14 years ago between the then 17-year-old and the founder of Forza Italia, from the Arcore parties to the trials. “It cost me a lot to know him.”