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Italy's top court clears Berlusconi in bunga bunga sex case

Italy's top court on Tuesday definitively cleared Silvio Berlusconi of charges that he paid for sex with an underage dancer and then abused his position as prime minister to cover it up.

After nine hours of deliberations, the judges at the Court of Cassation delivered a ruling that brings to an end a lengthy legal saga which lifted the lid on the "bunga bunga" sex parties the billionaire tycoon and former prime minister organised in his Milan villa.

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