Eleven years later, an era for the so-called 'olgettine' ends. When five months have passed since the death of Silvio Berlusconi, his five children have said enough and have decided to withdraw the financial allowance of 2,500 euros per month that the former prime minister paid religiously each month to around twenty women who had participated in his sordid parties. “bunga-bunga”, an amount, as explained, to compensate for the damage to their image caused by the public exposure they were involved in due to these activities. The magnate's heirs have also decided to evict them from the apartments in which some of them lived for free around Milan, again as a reward for their previous relationship with Berlusconi. They have until the end of the year to abandon these apartments on Olgettina Street, in Segrate, which gave their name to the nickname by which they were known in the Italian press. These “compensations” were not secret, but it was Silvio Berlusconi himself who, during a hearing in one of the trials in which he was being tried for having allegedly bribed the witnesses of what he called “elegant dinners,” explained, in the 2013, that each of these girls who had attended the nights at Villa San Martino, the house where he is buried in Arcore, on the outskirts of Milan, had been assigned a salary for the rest of their lives of 2,500 euros per month. , as help for the image and professional damage they had suffered as a result of the investigations and processes. In another trial, the two prosecutors Tiziana Siciliano and Luca Gaglio calculated that, since March 2012, Berlusconi had spent almost 11 million euros on “compensating” these women, and most of this amount would have gone to the model. Moroccan Karima El Mahroug, better known as “Ruby steals hearts”, a regular at these evenings who was 17 years old at the time of the events.
Eleven years later, an era for the so-called olgettine ends. When five months have passed since the death of Silvio Berlusconi, his five children have said enough and have decided to withdraw the financial allowance of 2,500 euros per month that the former prime minister paid religiously each month to around twenty women who had participated in his sordid parties. bunga-bunga, an amount, as explained, to compensate for the damage to their reputation caused by the public exposure they were involved in due to these activities.
The magnate's heirs have also decided to evict them from the houses in which some of them lived for free around Milan, again as a reward for their previous relationship with Berlusconi. They have until the end of the year to abandon them, according to Corriere della Sera.
These “compensations” were not secret, but it was Silvio Berlusconi himself who, during a hearing in one of the trials in which he was being tried for having allegedly bribed the witnesses of what he called “elegant dinners,” explained that each one of these girls who had attended the nights at Villa San Martino, the house where she lived in Arcore, on the outskirts of Milan, had assigned them a salary for the rest of their lives of 2,500 euros per month, as help for the damages of reputation that had suffered as a result of the investigations and proceedings.
In another of the trials, the two prosecutors, Tiziana Siciliano and Luca Gaglio, calculated that, since March 2012, Berlusconi had spent almost 11 million euros on “compensating” these women, and most of this amount would have gone to the Moroccan model Karima El Mahroug, better known as Ruby Robacorazones, a regular at these evenings who was 17 years old at the time of the events. Prosecutors considered that these assignments were a type of bribe to make them lie during the trial for prostitution of minors, for which he was convicted and disqualified but finally acquitted in 2015 by the Supreme Court. Months before he died in June at the age of 86, Berlusconi was also acquitted in February by a Milan Court of these bribery accusations.
Those affected have not been very happy that the Berlusconi have turned off the tap. At least one of them, Alessandra Sorcinelli, has assured that she will take legal action against her family, arguing that her image suffered irreparable damage and she deserves this assignment. According to her, both she and another of the models who participated in these bacchanals, Barbara Guerra, are in a similar situation: they live on a family property and the magnate promised them that they could stay there for the rest of their lives, but now they have received an eviction letter. “The contract is from 2015 and has no expiration date. In any case, a one-year notice is planned, not to leave in a couple of months," Sorcinelli defended in the Corriere della Sera, where he also said that he reached an agreement by which he must receive three million euros for the damages. suffered.
