Silvio Berlusconi blames mafia for latest sex scandal
In a last-ditch attempt to save his government, Italy's beleaguered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has blamed the mafia for the latest sex scandal, claiming the underworld had framed him in reprisal for the recent police successes.
Silvio Berlusconi hosted a ``prostitution system'' at his villa near Milan, where he paid women for sex with cash and favours, a prosecutor at the former prime minister's trial said.