European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20 June | 107 comments (107 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Sounds like these are models, not street urchins struggling to feed themselves. Were threatened if they did not comply? Were they kidnapped?

Wait, if it isn't gritty and shady it isn't exploitative?

Let's see, a 17-year old leaves her portfolio with a modelling agency and the agency owner then "forgets" the portfolio on Berlusconi's desk along with her cellphone number... Yeah, just par for the course in Europe and nothing to be shocked about.

What Europeans are more tolerant of than Americans is extramarital affairs with consenting adults. But things like "consorting with minors" or sexual harassment of underlings is equally frowned upon.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 05:45:49 PM EST
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Right but I am not talking about the underaged girls - that's a whole different matter and clearly sick and wrong. I am talking about the 42 yr old escort.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 05:51:27 PM EST
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I wonder what her deal is - after 'meeting' Berlusconi he put her on the short list for being a candidate for the European Parliament (among a number of other similar women), and after that blew up in his face he put her on the lists for the local elections in Bari. And she may advance her celebrity career with these videotapes she took inside his bedroom, though her political career is shot. So she's definitely not innocent. But if she can pierce the veil of lies Berlusconi has erected on this whole thing...

I mean, "Berlusconi can probably get many women for free" is the best his lawyer can come up with to counter the allegations that he paid this 42-year old €2,000 per visit. WTF?

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 05:58:33 PM EST
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It's all connected.

Did you see the one this morning about how he bragged to Jacques Chirac about how many women from porn magazines had used his bidet after he bagged them?

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 06:02:27 PM EST
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No I didn't (and my soul would have been better if you hadn't mentioned it.) I did read about Chirac boasting of his enormous success with women though.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 06:14:24 PM EST
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<grin>

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 06:19:43 PM EST
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Bwahahaha! That was a fun read, thanks. De Gondi sure ahs a way with words...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 06:24:27 PM EST
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I'm in tears... (4.00 / 3)

"Chirac liked to get away to mix with conservative peasant stock types with whom he would eat traditional plates based on lesser known animal parts." is one of the most entertaining sentences I have read in a while...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 06:26:27 PM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20 June | 107 comments (107 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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