Poisoning probe after mysterious death of ‘bunga bunga’ model

A murder investigation is underway into the mysterious death of a Moroccan model who regularly attended ex-Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s infamous ‘bunga bunga’ parties.

Imane Fadil, 33, was a key witness at the billionaire’s prostitution trial and had been writing a book about the scandal when she died on March 1.

The death of the glamorous TV presenter was kept secret until last Friday amid claims she told friends and family she had been poisoned.

Prosecutors in Milan revealed yesterday that a murder case has been opened.

The city’s chief prosecutor, Francesco Greco, said that ‘the doctors have not identified with any certainty any pathology which can explain the death’, adding that there were ‘several anomalies’ in her medical records.

At the media magnate’s trial for paying for sex with an underage prostitute, Ms Fadil descried how young women, sometimes in pairs and dressed as nuns, would strip off during raunchy pole dances.

‘They started to dance like the nuns of the film ‘Sister Act’, and then they took off their clothes,’ she said.

She claimed another stripped off wearing a mask with the face of their former superstar Ronaldinho.

Billionaire Berlusconi was initially convicted, before a judge overturned the decision, saying the country’s former Prime Minister could not have known the sex worker was in fact a minor.

Magistrates later levelled new charges against him and a number of others, accusing them of bribing some female guests of the parties to prevent them from telling the truth at the first trial.

They have denied the allegations.

It has never been suggested that Ms Fadil accepted any hush money, but Italian newspapers reported she was writing a book detailing her experiences.

Magistrates have obtained a copy of following her death.