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🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Silvio Berlusconi began his career as a nightclub and cruise ship singer. But he would eventually find an even better way to gain the adoration of the crowds: become an incomparably powerful real estate and media mogul. But just as he’s at the top of his game, Silvio’s business interests are threatened when a politician is caught flushing cash down a toilet.
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0:15.2 | A quick warning that this episode contains some strong language |
0:18.3 | and a reference to suicide. |
0:26.8 | Okay people, we're going to Milan, Italy. |
0:30.4 | Late on a Thursday night in May of 2010. |
0:33.2 | It's a quiet night in the courtyard at number 11 via Fatda Benefatelli. |
0:38.1 | This building used to be a palace, but today it's Milan's central police station |
0:43.1 | and this is business as usual. |
0:45.4 | Until officers bring in a 17 year old girl named Ruby. |
0:51.5 | You know the Ruby scandal is such a strange one because you have this young girl |
0:56.0 | who gets arrested for essentially, you know, stealing something from one of her roommates |
1:02.0 | and she tells the police, listen, I'm someone important. |
1:06.2 | Ruby has wide eyes and powder lips and let's be real. |
1:10.0 | She doesn't look surprised to be here. |
1:12.3 | This isn't her first brush with the cops, but a few hours after she arrives |
1:16.4 | at the police station, something happens that will change everything. |
1:20.7 | The phone rings. |
1:22.4 | On the other end of the line. |
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