Call girl Patrizia amazed by Berlusconi’s stamina

The much-vaunted kiss-and-tell memoir of Patrizia D'Addario, the Italian call girl who claims to have slept with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, went on sale in Italy yesterday. Berlusconi still claims that he cannot recall her, but Patrizia remembers their night together very well - especially the 73-year-old's stamina.

"He didn't appear a bit tired, he kissed me again and again and again," she claims. He called her "treasure" and "baby" during the course of their night together, which ended when she left his Rome residence, the Palazzo Grazioli, at 8 am the following morning.

She explains in the book, Prime minister, take your pleasure, how she decided to go public about her night with the PM because Berlusconi never delivered his side of the deal - a promise that he would help her with planning permission for the building of a hotel in her home town of Bari. "I gave him my body, but he [gave me] nothing," she says.

D'Addario also gives her version of the two candle-lit dinners at the residence on October 16 and November 4 - she only stayed the night on the second occasion.

Both events, she said, were attended by dozens of showgirls and would-be actresses and gave the lie to Berlusconi's claim that the evenings were party political gatherings.

"First of all, such a political club would have to consist only of young, beautiful women dressed only in skin-tight black dresses, because they were the only sort of person I saw," she writes.

"Secondly, the party members let themselves be caressed, kissed and touched in an unequivocal manner by their boss? If this is how politics is now conducted, I'm well qualified."

As reported by The First Post, Berlusconi has been chosen as Rolling Stone magazine's 'rock star of the year' largely on the basis of D'Addario's claims. He continues to claim that he cannot remember sleeping with her and insists he has never paid for sex. ·