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`Berlusconi hypnotised me by sexual prowess`
Sabina Began, reveals how she was `hypnotised` by his sexual prowess.
In an interview to a magazine, Sabina Began, who is one of eight people said to have hired the women for Berlusconi`s parties, described how she was swept off her feet by him at a party he hosted at his luxury villa, the Daily Mail reported.
"It was as if I had been hypnotised by him, it was a wonderful night," the 38-year-old actress told `Vanity Fair`.
Sabina, who has the letters `SB` tattooed on her ankle in honour of the politician, explained how she had arrived at the estate with a group of people including Formula One boss Flavio Briatore and his wife Elisabetta Gregoraci.
She also described how the sleazy media tycoon charmed his way into her affections following a walk near a small lake on his estate near Porto Cervo in Sardinia in 2005. "I plucked up the courage to ask him would it be possible that one day I could return with my boyfriend if I had one and have a similar romantic walk with him," she said.
"Berlusconi looked me straight in the eyes with an icy look and said `No` -- I only realised he was having fun with me when he said `Not unless you are my girlfriend. To do that you have to take my hand` and from there we never looked back.
"We had dinner on Briatore`s yacht Force Blue and he (Berlusconi) was whispering in my ear, he was hypnotising me after two hours I was hot and ready -- there was no stopping us from there.
"I looked him in the eyes and said `I want to spend the night with you`. I was embarrassed but it was a romantic, wonderful night."
Began also disclosed that she was in fact in love with the politician, saying: "He was the only man who had made me feel like a woman. Over dinner one night he told me I was special." According to prosecutors, Began, businessman Giampaolo Tarantini and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo`s former girlfriend Letizia Filippi were among eight people who hired women for parties Berlusconi hosted at his official residences in Rome and Sardinia.
Among the guests at one of his parties was George Clooney and Began said she had arranged the party and had merely asked Tarantini if he "knew any girls as the guest list had too many men on it", there is no suggestion that Clooney had sex with any of the women.
Among the women who were guests at the parties was high class escort Patrizia D`Addario who says she was paid to spend the night with Berlusconi at his Palazzo Grazioli home in Rome in 2008 and she was given 1,000 Euro.
She later went on to write a book about her experiences in which she praised Berlusconi -- who will be 75 tomorrow -- for his sexual stamina saying that he deserved "a place in the Guinness Book of Records".
A judge has to decide if there is enough evidence for the case to proceed against the eight people involved and the investigation is separate to another involving Berlusconi and 33 women said to have been recruited for his infamous "bunga bunga" parties in Milan.
That case resumed last month and he has been charged with having sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of office and Clooney has been listed as a potential witness for that trial.
PTI