A dancer performs at a Bunga Bunga Party in Itally in 2011 (© Laura Lezza/Getty Images)

Former Italian PM reportedly liked girls dressed as Obama

5/25/2012

As more testimony emerges about former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties, the events -- described by Berlusconi as "elegant dinners" and by just about everyone else as throwbacks to the orgies of Ancient Rome -- seem ever more outrageous and embarrassing. Dominican-born Marysthell Polanco testified that she had not only dressed up as one of the trial prosecutors for the PM (awkward courtroom moment) but also as a "burlesque version" of President Barack Obama. "I dressed up as [the prosecutor] with a toga to make [Berlusconi] laugh, and also as Obama," she revealed. She also insists the entertainment was all "innocent fun." Maybe these soirees were fun, but it's hard to believe they were innocent.

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