Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister who gave women cars at their sex parties

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died aged 86 at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. The controversial tycoon, who in recent years has been associated with controversial issues, with trials for bribery, bribery, abuse of power and child prostitution, leave one history which also coexisted with cars and the automotive industry.

One of the loudest cases was precisely that of a series of cars he reportedly gave to women who attended his “sex parties”.

As a summary of the Milan public prosecutor’s office indicates, Silvio Berlusconi would have spent more than 280,000 euros at the beginning of the last decade to buy 13 cars for the women who participated in the parties he organized at their homes.

The prosecutor’s information included six Mini Cooper, five Smart ForTwos, a Volkswagen Beetle Cabrio and a Land Rover Discovery which was allegedly bought through an account in charge of the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera.

But it would be “Heartbreaker Ruby” one of those who caused the greatest scandal, since the former Prime Minister was prosecuted for the young Moroccan for prostitution of minors, because she was 17 when she was part of the so-called “bunga bunga” parties.

One of these days, Berlusconi would have promised him a audi r8 . “He showed it to me the third night I was at Arcore,” says the young woman. The supercar would never have reached the hands of the Moroccan.

Silvio Berlusconi was one of the most powerful men in the world . With a wealth estimated at more than 7 billion dollars, for the former president of the Milano luxury was a constant in his life, however, cars were never a big passion and he was not seen in different sports cars like other tycoons.

Of course, he liked high-end cars and It was only seen on Land Rover and Audi models, in addition to official armored and darkened vehicles.

Among the most important models told to him is a 1988 Land Rover Classic . Said SUV was sold before he entered politics and some media say he never drove it but was always with a driver.

Another eye-catching model in his fleet of cars was a Audi A8 . The media indicate that it was Berlusconi’s favorite for the comforts and advantages it offered.

Another anecdote related to cars took place at the end of 2009. In those years, the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Poutine he bet with his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, that Russia would be able to start production of 4×4 vehicles in Vladivostok in just a few months, at the first car factory in the Russian Far East.

Italy’s prime minister at the time didn’t believe him. and told him that if he succeeded, he would buy him one of the first cars.

Well, the factory was up and running in six months, and Putin said he would give his Italian friend a 10% discount on buying the model. Patriot UAZ .

Silvio Berlusconi’s scandal with women and the crime of child prostitution had an unusual chapter in India, where Ford advertised the Figo model where the former Italian Prime Minister was seen driving the car with three gagged women in the trunk.

The graphic spot, produced by the advertising agency hired by Ford, was not used for commercial purposes, but carried the slogan “Forget your worries with Figo’s big trunk!” .

Due to the incident, a Ford spokesperson told the BBC at the time that the company was taking the incident “very seriously and is reviewing approval and oversight processes, and will take necessary measures to ensure that nothing like this happens again”. .

One measure that had an impact on motorists was related to new regulations that would apply in Italy to reduce traffic accidents.

In 2002, Silvio Berlusconi and the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Pietro Lunardi, introduces in Italy the mechanism of the driving license with points.

The law entered into force on June 30, 2003, along with other regulations of lesser impact.