AC Milan Owner Berlusconi Gets Seven-Year Jail Term in Underage s*x

Silvio Berlusconi.

AC Milan owner, Silvio Berlusconi, has been sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from public office for life after been found guilty of having s*x with a minor.
The 76-year-old has been president of AC Milan on three different spells since 1987. Milan finished third in the Italian Serie A last season, 15 points behind champions Juventus.
The former prime minister of Italy paid underage Moroccan teenager Karima El Mahroug, nicknamed ‘Ruby the Heart Breaker’ for s*x and then tried to cover it up with phone calls to police when she was arrested for alleged theft. Berlusconi and the woman had denied having had s*x.
The girl at the centre of the case was 17 at the time of the alleged encounters but passed herself off as being 24, while the age of s*xual consent in Italy is 14, it is illegal to pay anyone under the age of 18 for s*x.
Neither Berlusconi nor Karima have given evidence, she was called by the defence but failed to show on a couple of occasions, delaying the trial. Berlusconi’s team eventually dropped her from the witness list.

Karima El Mahroug.

She appeared in a separate trial of three Berlusconi aides charged with procuring prostitutes for the parties and told the court that Berlusconi’s notorious ‘bunga bunga’ parties featured aspiring showgirls dressed as sexy nuns and nurses performing striptease acts, and that one woman even dressed up as president Obama.
Berlsuconi was not in court throughout the period three female judges at a Milan court deliberated his fate- or today when the final verdict was delivered.

The Ruling Was Conducted at a Milan Court Presided Over By Three Female Judges.

Prosecutors wanted six-year jail term for underage s*x and abuse of power but the three female judges handed him a longer sentence of seven years. He was also banned from holding public office.
Meanwhile, the verdict can be appealed twice before the sentence becomes final, which could take months or even years.

Unless he loses his appeal, the former prime minister will not have to spend any time in jail.
Berlusconi’s lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini immediately announced an appeal and said the sentence was as expected as it was unjust.

Niccolo Ghedini, Berlusconi’s Lawyer Responds to Questions Outside the Courthouse.

“This is beyond reality,” Ghedini told reporters outside the courthouse. “I’m calm because I’ve been saying for three years that this trial should never have taken place here.”
Ghedini says the dinner parties were elegant soirees; prosecutors say they were s*x-fuelled parties that women were paid to attend.
Berlusconi has severally railed against Milan prosecutors and judges, accusing them of mounting politically motivated cases against him.
The verdict comes on the heels of Berlusconi’s tax fraud conviction, which along with a four-year prison sentence and five-year ban on public office have been upheld on a first appeal.
The tax fraud case is heading to Italy’s highest court for a final appeal after Berlusconi’s defence failed to overturn it last week at the constitutional court.
He has been tried numerous times relating to his business dealings and has been convicted in other cases at the trial level.
Those convictions were always either been suppressed on appeal or the statute of limitations ran out before Italy’s high court could have its say.
The s*x-for-hire case is the first involving his personal conduct.