ROME: An Italian court was expected to deliver its verdict on Monday on whether former premier Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with “Ruby the Heart Stealer,” an underage prostitute, and abused his official powers to favor her.

Prosecutors in Milan have called for the magnate to be banned from politics for life and serve six years in prison in a case, which could trouble Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s uneasy grand coalition government.

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