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A sex-crazed Italian minister has been urged to resign after he claimed he has slept with 1,500 women and used misogynistic language during an event at an art gallery.
Vittorio Sgarbi – a junior culture minister in the government of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni – stunned attendees at an event in Rome when he used a derogatory term in reference to women and praised his own penis.
The 71-year-old – who is a controversial art critic – has dated a series of adult film stars, and was a friend of the late Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi – known for his ‘Bunga Bunga parties’ – who died last month at the age of 86.
While the event at the Italian capital’s MAXXI national museum of contemporary art was held last month, footage of Sgarbi’s comments have only just emerged.
In the video, he is sitting on stage bragging that he had slept with ‘nine [women] a month’ and praising his penis as an ‘organ of knowledge’ – but admitted he didn’t know the exact number as he doesn’t have a ‘penis counter’.
At one point he [French author Michel Houellebecq] told me there is a time in life when we know only one organ: the d*ck,’ he said, addressing fellow speaker and Italian rock singer Morgan, and the gallery’s president Alessandro Giuli.
‘The d*ck is an organ of knowledge, that is of penetration, it serves to [make us] understand,’ he told the crowd.
The June 21 event was to mark the MAXXI art gallery’s summer opening.
At one point, Sgarbi took a phone call on stage and barked: ‘Who the f*** is this?’
He called whoever he was speaking to a ‘cuckold’ and bragged about how many women he had bedded to the person over the phone.
The junior minister also claimed that Berlusconi, who had died little more than a week before the event, had slept with ‘fewer than 100 women’ in his life – something which Sgarbi described as a ‘tragedy’.
At one point, the controversial critic launched into a tirade about a conversation he had shared with French novelist Houellebecq.
‘At a certain point, turning 67, the prostate appears and you have to deal with this f**king b**ch w*ore you’ve never met in your life,’ he said.
‘The c*ck goes away and the prostate comes.’
Morgan asked Sgarbi: ‘How many women you’ve slept with?’
Sgarbi answered: ‘I don’t have a penis counter, so I don’t know, but I can answer you like the great Califano (Italian lyricist), and I can estimate an average of three a month and when I was active it was even nine or twelve a month.
‘So it adds up to 1,500, minimum.’
