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Email Print Related News Sex, cash and starlets: Berlusconi's "Rubygate" 3:12am EDT Timeline: Berlusconi and the "Ruby" scandal 3:12am EDT Analysis & Opinion Is Cisco bracing for an activist siege? COLUMN – UK Bribery Act guidelines: has the lobbying worked? Related Topics World » Italy » Related Video Italy awaits Berlusconi sex trial Tue, Apr 5 2011 1 / 2 A protester holds a banner with an image of Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi which reads ''Or buys the judges or changes the law'' during a protest in front of the Italian Parliament in downtown Rome April 5, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Tony Gentile By Antonella Ciancio MILAN | Wed Apr 6, 2011 3:12am EDT MILAN (Reuters) - Milan judges open one of the most sensational trials in recent Italian history on Wednesday when they begin hearings into charges that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid a teenaged nightclub dancer for sex last year. The "Rubygate" case has gripped media attention like few others and has overshadowed Italian politics for months. About 100 television crews from as far away as Australia were vying for space in front of the courthouse after the judges ruled that they would not be allowed to enter. Some 100 journalists were expected inside the court. "Whether he is a criminal or innocent, this trial has to be held," read the headline in the liberal paper Il Fatto Quotidiano, referring to a resolution by parliament on Tuesday that the Milan court was not the proper place to try Berlusconi because he is a parliamentarian. The resolution is not binding on the Milan judges and will have no immediate effect on the case because it will be months before the constitutional court rules on it. Italian media reported that Berlusconi had told his aides the parliamentary resolution meant the Milan trial should not take place at all. Berlusconi is accused of giving cash and jewels to Moroccan-born Karima El Mahroug, a dancer who goes by the stage name of Ruby, in exchange for sex when she was only 17 years old and thus too young under Italian law to be paid as a prostitute. The hearing, opening at around 0730 GMT, is likely to be a low-key, bureaucratic and technical affair, whose main outcome may be the date of the next session, when the trial will start in earnest. Neither Ruby, Berlusconi nor his chief lawyers are expected to attend. Berlusconi is also accused of abusing the powers of his office to have Ruby released from police custody over unrelated theft allegations, in an apparent bid to prevent details of their connection emerging in official evidence. Berlusconi has denied the charges against him and has launched a string of bitter attacks on what he describes as leftist magistrates determined to destroy him politically. Already hit by a party revolt last year that nearly sank his center-right government, he has been hurt by the affair, which has drawn condemnation from women's groups, the Catholic Church and even the country's main business lobby. But public opinion in Italy, traditionally forgiving in questions of private morality, has not been as damning as it would be in many countries and his parliamentary majority has been strong enough to see off opposition calls on him to resign. BUNGA BUNGA No verdict is expected for months and legal maneuvering may push the case into the kind of judicial limbo that has seen many past cases involving Italian politicians run into the sand. 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