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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pm-berlusconi-never-touched-me.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby, whose encounters with Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi are at the base of a prostitution probe" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-pm-berlusconi-never-touched-me.jpg" alt="Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby, whose encounters with Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi are at the base of a prostitution probe"/></a></p>
<p>Silvio Berlusconi and the Moroccan teenager at the centre of an under-age prostitution probe targeting the Italian premier have denied there was any sexual contact between them.</p>
<p>Mr Berlusconi taped a video message &#8211; the second time in a few days &#8211; to defend himself from the probe by Milan prosecutors into his encounters with the teenager, nicknamed Ruby Rubacuori (Ruby the Heart-Stealer).</p>
<p>The 74-year-old prime minister accused prosecutors of using methods worthy of a Mafia criminal and said he would not respond to a summons this weekend because he did not want to give credence to an investigation he called illegitimate and politically driven.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing I should be ashamed of,&#8221; Mr Berlusconi said. &#8220;I would like to go on trial immediately &#8211; but with impartial judges, not with prosecutors who want to use this case as a means of political fight.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prosecutors claim Mr Berlusconi paid for sex with the girl, then a minor, and used his office to cover it up.</p>
<p>They have forwarded 389 pages of material, including wiretaps, to parliament to get special permission to search some of Mr Berlusconi&#8217;s properties. Examining the documents will take at least a week, news reports said.</p>
<p>Hours before Mr Berlusconi&#8217;s video statement, the teenager appeared on a talk show on the Mediaset network that the premier founded. Appearing composed during most of the two 20-minute segments, Ruby said she never worked as a prostitute and that Mr Berlusconi never &#8220;put a finger on me&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ruby, who asked to be called by her real name during the interview, said she met the premier after winding up at his villa last Valentine&#8217;s Day upon an invitation to dinner by a friend. At the time she was working as a waitress in a Milan restaurant, she said.</p>
<p>She said she introduced herself by her nickname Ruby, and gave her age as 24, although she was 17 at the time. She also said she was Egyptian, a lie she said she could not explain &#8220;He listened without being paid or obligated to do so. I felt heard,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I told him my whole story in sincerity &#8211; except for my name, my (real) age and for my country.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the end of dinner, also attended by other young women, Ruby said Mr Berlusconi invited her into his office and gave her an envelope with 7,000 euro (£5,900) which she opened in the car. &#8220;I meet him, he gives me 7,000 euro &#8211; and he doesn&#8217;t put a finger on me,&#8221; Ruby said. &#8220;I think I can speak well of a person like that,&#8221; she said.</p>
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