The latest revelations for Berlusconi are significantly more serious, because they involve something other than mere sex and money, and Mr Berlusconi's government is suffering real damage.
First, in what has inevitably been called "Rubygate" after the stage name of Karima El Mahroug, the dancer who entertained at private parties, it emerged that Mr Berlusconi's office had telephoned Milan police in May after she was arrested and accused of theft. He allegedly ordered the police to release her, despite the fact that she was a minor with no proper documents, on the false grounds that her grandfather was Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president.
In Italian grand opera, the heroine takes half an hour to die; in the Grand Soap Opera which is Berlusconi's Italy, the government will take half a year, or more, finally to collapse.
For more: Why Silvio Berlusconi is still standing - Telegraph
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