This is the latest ‘bunga bunga’ woman to be served an eviction order by the heirs of controversial former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi.
Bunga Bunga party
Former TV weather girl Manuela Ferrara, who describes herself as a ‘journalist, model and influencer’ was one of dozens of women invited to the parties that Berlusconi insisted were simply ‘elegant dinners’.
She is one of around 20 women who were pledged payments and houses by Berlusconi – who died of leukaemia in June aged 86 – for ‘reputational damage’ after they became embroiled in the sex scandal.
Now his children want to cut the women off and evict them from ‘grace and favour’ houses he gave them in and around the city of Milan.
She is to leave by the end of the year
Manuela – who has also dated footballer Cristiano Ronaldo – was told she must be out of the flat in the upmarket Bande Nere-Primaticcio area of the city by the end of the year but unlike other women in the saga she has agreed not to take legal action.
How the situation unfolded
Manuela, 39, and her twin sister Marianna, were both guests at Berlusconi’s now infamous parties which he threw at his luxury home in Arcore in the early 2000s and which later sparked a criminal investigation.
At a subsequent hearing Manuela, who worked on Berlusconi’s TV empire, told prosecutors: ‘I’m a good girl but I’ve been described as an escort, let me tell you that is absolutely absurd.
‘We were paid 2,500 Euro by Berlusconi a month, as were many other women who attended the evenings at Arcore but they were not vulgar or uncomfortable evenings, there was nothing scandalous, the dancers entertained as was their living.’
Manuela later left her job as a TV weather girl but was a contestant on Italy’s version of I’m A Celebrity Ger Me Out of Here and still regularly appears on talk shows and models for underwear and calendars.
More eviction orders
Two other women Alessandra Sorcinelli and Barbara Guerra, both of whom also attended the parties and have been served eviction orders have decided to take on Berlusconi’s heirs and threatened legal action.
Alessandra claims that Berlusconi promised her three million Euro to compensate her for the publicity she had suffered as a result of the bunga-bunga parties and has instructed her lawyers to take legal actions saying she has proof she can stay at her apartment.
There are recordings like evidences
Barbara’s lawyer Federico Sinicato, told MailOnline: ‘We have several recordings in which Berlusconi assures my client she can stay in the flat where she lives, no problem and we are prepared to make this public if need be.’
In one recording Berlusconi is heard telling her how she can stay in the house as he says: ‘I promise you on my five children, a loan for use immediately and as soon as the trial is over, and our lawyers give us the all clear, I will put it in your name.’
Prosecutors in various trials against Berlusconi claimed the allowances and houses were benefits for the girls in return for favourable testimony during hearings against him and in particular a case where he was said to have paid an underage girl for sex.
Both women live in properties on the outskirts of Milan and have insisted that nothing untoward happened between them and Berlusconi.
