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Legal woes? Berlusconi jokes about ‘bunga bunga’

The Italian premier doesn't seem to be letting his legal woes get him down.

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Premier Silvio Berlusconi doesn’t seem to be letting his legal woes get him down,joking to two young blondes that he’d like to invite them to his famed “bunga bunga” parties.

Berlusconi went on trial this week on charges he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl at some of the parties then tried to use his influence to cover it up. He and the girl both deny that they had sex.

The 74-year-old premier was handing out prizes to a dozen promising young college graduates in the courtyard of his Rome offices on Friday when he congratulated two young women for their accomplishments.

“Congratulations,you are so great. I’m thinking of inviting you to ‘bunga bunga,'” Berlusconi quipped,as his seemingly exasperated youth minister Georgia Meloni looked away.

Berlusconi didn’t stop,telling a third recipient a male that he was cute enough to come along as well.

The billionaire media mogul-turned politician is an unapologetic jokester who frequently explains away off-colour gaffes as harmless jokes.

Participants at his dinner parties have said “bunga bunga” was an inside joke; prosecutors have said it referred to erotic dancing and stripteases that followed dinner.

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Berlusconi was in a particularly ebullient mood on Friday,telling another two prize recipients with bald spots that he’d pass along the number of the doctor who performed a hair transplant on him.

 

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