The sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, and a prostitute deepened today with the release of sensational new audio tapes purportedly proving their encounters late last year.

In the second series of tapes and transcripts to be published by the left-leaning weekly L’Espresso, the escort, Patrizia D’Addario, is recorded discussing her appointment with Mr Berlusconi in October with the man who allegedly hired her to go to the Prime Minister’s official residence

Gianpaolo Tarantini, who is being investigated by Bari prosecutors for allegations of corruption and abetting prostitution, told Ms D’Addario that Mr Berlusconi would not be “taking you like an escort, he will be taking you as a friend of mine that I brought along”.

Mr Tarantini also warned Ms D’Addario that the 72-year-old Italian leader does not use condoms. At an apparent meeting held with Ms D’Addario and another unnamed woman in October 2008, Mr Tarantini briefed them ahead of their evening with the premier.

Tarantini: I wanted to tell you that I will come with the driver at 9.15 to pick you up and we will go there.

Unnamed woman: We will go there. Then if he decides we stay..

D’Addario: And a thousand for the night.

Tarantini: I have already given you a thousand and if you stay with him he will give you a gift on his own.. ah.. you will also see that he doesn’t use condoms...

D’Addario:.. But it is not going to happen without it. How will I feel safe?

Tarantini: But... it’s Berlusconi...

Another of the taped conversations published today allegedly records a conversation between Mr D’Addario and Mr Berlusconi on November 5, the morning after she claimed to have stayed with him.

He allegedly asks her if she would like tea or coffee and then tells her “There is everything you want” at his residence.

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