Italian prosecutors have discovered series of properties in the outskirts of Milan where Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi use to keep young women to perform striptease for him.
The claims, contained in 300 pages of legal documents, provide details for the first time of the so-called "bunga-bunga" parties that a teenage Moroccan nightclub dancer said she witnessed last year at the prime minister''s mansion at Arcore, outside Milan.
The 74-year-old allegedly kept up to 14 women in apartments in Milano II, a housing estate he built on the outskirts of Milan in the 1970s. Police allegedly found sex toys, gifts of expensive jewelry and envelopes stuffed with 20,000 euros (16,800 pounds) in cash in the flats.
Berlusconi said at the weekend that the investigation was a politically-motivated attempt to destroy him by Left-wing prosecutors.
"We face the umpteenth attempt to throw mud on my person and my institutional position, in the illusory attempt to eliminate me from the political scene. But this time they have exceeded all limits," the Telegraph quoted him as saying.