Since first alleging she spent a night last November at Berlusconi’s Rome residence, Patrizia D’Addario has limited herself to saying she shared a bed with the 73-year-old prime minister. But in ‘Gradisca, Presidente’ (Take Your Pleasure, Prime Minister), D’Addario writes: “He told me he wanted contact with my skin, he held me tight, he took my breath away. I took him inside me, he suffocated me with kisses.”
D’Addario writes: “We kissed an infinite number of times, with him above all kissing my intimate parts,” a performance for which “he could get into the Guinness Book of Records”. When D’Addario admitted she was struggling to enjoy the moment, Berlusconi “took it like a challenge”, keeping her up until 8 am, when he left to speak to journalists.
“I am much younger than him, and quite an expert, I must say,” she writes. “But there were moments when I feared I would not stand up to his assaults. Does he take something? I have asked myself many times.” The only substance she claims Berlusconi had on hand was “disgustingly sweet” herbal tea.
D’Addario claims she secretly tape-recorded the occasion and went public after Berlusconi failed to make good on promises to help her obtain permits for a building project near Bari in southern Italy. In the book, D’Addario describes her early life and drift into prostitution, stating: “The clients increased, I became more than an escort, a real whore.”
