Scandal Italian Style: Transexuals, Monasteries and Drug Dealers!

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And they do know how to do it in style!

The governor made off to a monastery after having affairs with transsexuals, but not before the cops videotaped a tryst, all flesh and white powder, and offered to sell copies to a magazine owned by the prime minister, who, at the time, was rumored to be entangled with an underage Neapolitan model. Then one of the transsexuals, a Brazilian named Brenda, turned up naked and dead, her laptop computer submerged under a running tap. Oh, yeah, and the drug dealer who supplied cocaine to the governor and Brenda would meet his own demise. It's an odd coincidence.

Note to reader: The writer would love to pretend he has made all this up, but this is Italy, where one's imagination pales beside the operatic brio of real-life librettos that unfold with delicious, unseemly decadence.

Piero Marrazzo, a married governor and onetime crusading TV reporter, was having a dalliance with Natalie on a July afternoon when four cops burst into her apartment and began recording with a cellphone camera. Marrazzo, blushing in his skivvies, found himself the victim of blackmail, while Natalie, a transsexual with an artistic flair for makeup, hit YouTube and the news show circuit. Marrazzo resigned his government post and reportedly sought refuge in a Benedictine monastery. The police officers were arrested and charged with extorting about $27,500 from Marrazzo to keep the video hush-hush, even as they were peddling their scratchy little production to potential buyers.

Unpleasant as it all was, the tawdriness might have vanished in the clamor of unending Italian scandals had Brenda, who was Natalie's friend and Marrazzo's other lover, not been found dead in November. She was asphyxiated when a suitcase surrounded by candles caught fire in her flat, filling it with smoke. Police say Brenda was drinking heavily and may have passed out, but that doesn't explain why the laptop had been doused. It's just the kind of revelation that sends the Italian media into a buzzing espresso high.

What was on the computer? More politicians in various throes of ecstasy and stages of undress?Prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo doesn't think so. Investigators found no incriminating tales on the hard drive, but Capaldo, a circumspect man, believes that Brenda was slain and so was the drug dealer, Gianguerino Cafasso, who overdosed in September on heroin and cocaine.

Rest of the story here.

And here I was, so proud of our anti-gay California Senator who might have visited a gay club on Latin Drag-Queen Beauty Pageant night before being caught DUI. Inspired, I had a hot story for Loving Wives all ready to go... Now it all seems so...small and common. *sigh* I mean, I could never write anything this good! (The governor retiring to a monastery is a brilliant twist!). And now I'm thinkin', really, we here in the U.S. must do something to shrink this huge scandal gap between us and Europe. I say Europe, in general, because I really don't think we can even aspire to reach the athletic heights that Italy manages (as the article points out, it's probably all that Opera).

Maybe we could start by trying to match Germany and work our way up to Italy?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Vive Italia, where anything worth doing is worth overdoing and anything worth overdoing makes the papers! http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/36_2_34.gif

 

[TxRad]

What can you say, Italy has a couple of thousand year head start. Just look what they did to poor Julius. And then we make an orange flavored drink out of him.

 

[JackLuis]

Gay Hookers from the Vatican?

Another Italian Blessing?

 

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Another Italian Blessing?

"One of Pope Benedict’s ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter’s Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican

....Among four people arrested last month in the corruption probe was Angelo Balducci, a engineer who is a board member of Italy’s public works department and a construction consultant to the Vatican. Balducci was arrested on corruption charges and the allegatons of prostitution emerged only later.

Balducci is also a member of an elite group called “Gentlemen of His Holiness”, ushers who are called to serve in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on major occasions such as when the pope receives heads of state or presides at big events."

http://bestsmileys.com/religous/1.gif Masterful! Brilliant! How does Italy do it?

 

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What can you say, Italy has a couple of thousand year head start. Just look what they did to poor Julius. And then we make an orange flavored drink out of him.

You're right Tx. On the world stage, we're still just a crude, uncultured, backwater country. We think some official in New York running a prostitution ring is shocking...Italy settles for nothing less than an usher for the Vatican!

They have such high standards for scandal there. Such elegance, too.

 

[TxRad]

You're right Tx. On the world stage, we're still just a crude, uncultured, backwater country. We think some official in New York running a prostitution ring is shocking...Italy settles for nothing less than an usher for the Vatican!

They have such high standards for scandal there. Such elegance, too.

I think the elegance has more to do with the flowing robes and pointy hats.

 

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I think the elegance has more to do with the flowing robes and pointy hats.

Exactly! What better costume for wearing while running a gay prostitution ring?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Italians are so sexy that I can only imagine how hot their trannies are. I'm not surprised that he couldn't resist temptation. It has all of the makes of a Transgender story, in any case. Nice.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Why thank-you! HM seems to think so, at any rate.