Berlusconi: 'Ruby' writes 'farewell president'

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 12 - Karima El Mahroug, an Italo-Moroccan woman and former exotic dancer and underage prostitute known as Ruby Heartstealer, on Monday wrote "Farewell President" over an image of a broken heart at the death of 86-year-old four-time former premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, who was convicted of paying her for sex before being subsequently cleared when judges ruled he could not have known how young she was.
    Berlusconi once got his parliamentary majority to back his claim that El Mahroug was the niece or granddaughter of former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, and he had had to have her sprung from a Milan police station in order to avoid a diplomatic incident.
    El Mahroug and another 26 young women who attended Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties were recently acquitted, on a technicality, of falsely backing the late premier's claim that his soirees were elegant and innocent affairs. (ANSA).