What do you do when you're a small-time crook and former cruise-ship lounge singer who went into business - with a partner now in prison - and bought a radio station, then a TV station, then a newspaper, then another radio station, then another TV station, then another newspaper, then a radio network, then a TV network - and ended up owning about 95 percent of the media seen in Italy? That's what Silvio Berlosconni did - and then created his own political party, ran for Prime Minister with his billions and the full support of his own wholly-owned versions of Fox News, Fox Radio, and Fox Newspaper - and - surprise! - won. Three times! The saga of the Berlusconi sex scandals heated up again in Italy over the weekend as newly-released wiretaps of Berlusconi's telephone conversations dominated the headlines all across Italy. The wiretaps were released at the conclusion of an investigation into entrepreneur Gianpaolo Tarantini - a man who is accused of paying women to sleep with Berlusconi at his homes in 2008 and 2009. In the transcripts of the wiretaps, Berlusconi is quoted as telling Tarantini that, "Last night I had a queue outside the door of the bedroom....There were eleven...I only did eight because I could not do it anymore....Listen, all the beds are full here...this lot won't go home, even at gunpoint." In another conversation recorded in September 2008, Berlusconi told Tarantini that he needed to reduce the flow of women for a few days because he had a "terrible ...
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