Meet Ruby Heartthrob, photos below, who is allegedly Silvio Berlusconi’s affair of convenience if reports from Italy are accurate. He is the Prime Minister of Italy and she a Moroccan pole dancer whose real name is Karima El Mahroug (pictures below), but the most scandalous aspect of this story is that Ruby Heartthrob is underage even by lenient European moral standards.
Ruby Heartthrob
The details of this story read like a cheap novel or great opera, take your pick. As a biography, Ruby Heartthrob (alias for a much less sexy name, Karima El Mahroug) is a teenager from Morocco who ran away from home to pursue great expectations abroad. Known as a wild child, she escaped difficulties at home and entered a wild party life in northern Italy. It was Berlusconi himself on the other end of the phone asking that the Milan police department release this poor girl named Ruby Heartthrob. Yeah man. By the way, Italian media sometimes drop the A in her first name, such as Karim El Mahroug.
Ruby Heartthrob
The details of this story read like a cheap novel or great opera, take your pick. As a biography, Ruby Heartthrob (alias for a much less sexy name, Karima El Mahroug) is a teenager from Morocco who ran away from home to pursue great expectations abroad. Known as a wild child, she escaped difficulties at home and entered a wild party life in northern Italy. It was Berlusconi himself on the other end of the phone asking that the Milan police department release this poor girl named Ruby Heartthrob. Yeah man. By the way, Italian media sometimes drop the A in her first name, such as Karim El Mahroug.
Anyway back to the news story. One thing led to another and soon enough the party girl Ruby Heartthrob was giving police wild tales of partying with Prime Minister Berlusconi. The story leads all the television news reports and newspapers across the country.
Karima El Mahroug Profile:
She may be only 18, but by her own admission, the woman at the centre of the sex scandal engulfing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has not been shielded from the darker sides of life.
Karima El Mahroug - the night-club dancer whose stage name is Ruby Rubacuori, or Ruby Heartstealer - says as a child, she was a victim of rape and abuse.
The transcripts of tapped telephone conversations quoted in Italian media suggest she began her acquaintance with Mr Berlusconi when she was just 16 years old.
But Ms Mahroug has sought to draw a distinction between her treatment by men in general and her treatment by Mr Berlusconi.
Runaway
Karima El Mahroug reportedly arrived in Italy with her family from Morocco in 2003, settling in the eastern Sicilian coastal town of Letojanni.
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Relationship with Mr Berlusconi
* February 2010: Ms Mahroug reportedly introduced to Mr Berlusconi after one of his friends saw her in a nightclub
* Over the following months, Ms Mahroug - then aged 17 - visited Mr Berlusconi's residence several times, when prosecutors allege he paid to have sex with her
* May 2010: Arrested in Milan on suspicion of stealing money and jewellery - but released from jail after call from PM's office, claiming she was a relative of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Mr Berlusconi denies abusing his power to secure her release
* Ms Mahroug admits receiving 7,000 euros (£5,900; $9,400) from Berlusconi as a gift after they first met but denies it was payment for sex
* Denies demanding 5m euros from Mr Berlusconi to keep quiet about their relationship
'Buying affection'
Later, Ms Mahroug became a belly dancer but denied ever working as a prostitute. “Start Quote
[Silvio Berlusconi] is alone and fights loneliness, a bit like I do”
End Quote Karima El Mahroug
Mr Berlusconi claims he gave money, gifts and help to Ms Mahroug out of pity, while she also denies any sexual aspect of their relationship.
"I pay to get my father's affection; he pays for young women."
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Karima El Mahroug - the night-club dancer whose stage name is Ruby Rubacuori, or Ruby Heartstealer - says as a child, she was a victim of rape and abuse.
The transcripts of tapped telephone conversations quoted in Italian media suggest she began her acquaintance with Mr Berlusconi when she was just 16 years old.
But Ms Mahroug has sought to draw a distinction between her treatment by men in general and her treatment by Mr Berlusconi.
Runaway
Karima El Mahroug reportedly arrived in Italy with her family from Morocco in 2003, settling in the eastern Sicilian coastal town of Letojanni.
Continue reading the main story
Relationship with Mr Berlusconi
* February 2010: Ms Mahroug reportedly introduced to Mr Berlusconi after one of his friends saw her in a nightclub
* Over the following months, Ms Mahroug - then aged 17 - visited Mr Berlusconi's residence several times, when prosecutors allege he paid to have sex with her
* May 2010: Arrested in Milan on suspicion of stealing money and jewellery - but released from jail after call from PM's office, claiming she was a relative of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Mr Berlusconi denies abusing his power to secure her release
* Ms Mahroug admits receiving 7,000 euros (£5,900; $9,400) from Berlusconi as a gift after they first met but denies it was payment for sex
* Denies demanding 5m euros from Mr Berlusconi to keep quiet about their relationship
'Buying affection'
Later, Ms Mahroug became a belly dancer but denied ever working as a prostitute. “Start Quote
[Silvio Berlusconi] is alone and fights loneliness, a bit like I do”
End Quote Karima El Mahroug
Mr Berlusconi claims he gave money, gifts and help to Ms Mahroug out of pity, while she also denies any sexual aspect of their relationship.
"I pay to get my father's affection; he pays for young women."
Darn Please leave comments about Ruby Heartthrob, what you think of Silvio Berlusconi’s girlfriend (allegedly) of convenience, Karim El Mahroug, and what favors she might have provided him.
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