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Mr Berlusconi, left, was convicted in June of paying for sex with Ruby, right, whose real name is Karima El Mahroug. Silvio Berlusconi was the "director" of the bunga bunga parties at his mansion and knowingly paid for sex with an under age escort in a "proven system of prostitution", judges said on Thursday The judges' report, which details the reasons for sentencing the Italian former prime minister, to seven years in jail, comes just days before politicians are due to vote on whether to kick him out of parliament, a move expected to bring an end to his 20-year political career. The under age escort in question, an erotic dancer nicknamed Ruby the Heart Stealer, was one of a legion of young women whom Mr Berlusconi rewarded with "enormous" amounts of money and items of jewellery in return for sex in a "proven system of prostitution", the judges from the court in Milan said in a 331-page document. "At night the women entertained the master of the house in the hope of ample reward," the judges wrote, adding that 77-year-old Mr Berlusconi paid the dancer around 3,000 euros (£2,500) a time for at least two sexual encounters. At the parties, women engaged in "lap dances, strip teases, dressing up (in nurse and policewomen uniforms) and mutual fondling," the court document said. Mr Berlusconi was convicted in June of paying for sex with Ruby, whose real name is Karima El Mahroug, and abusing his office by putting pressure on police to have her released on a theft charge. | 
