01 June,2011 07:41 AM IST | | Agencies
Nightclub dancer at the heart of Italian PM Berlusconi's sex scandal wrote to the director suggesting she appear in his next film
Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name as Ruby the Heart Stealer, sent a letter to Woody Allen saying that her dream was to become 'the next Mia Farrow or Diane Keaton'.
Neither she nor the prime minister turned up for the second hearing in the trial, which kicked off last month in a court in Milan.
Karima el-Mahroug aka Ruby the heart stealer dreams of being like Mia Farrow or even Diane Keaton and is envious of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who starred in Allen's latest flick
Berlusconi despite being accused of abuse of office and of paying for sex with Moroccan-born El Mahroug when she was allegedly working as a 17-year-old prostitute, was not obliged under Italian law to turn up for the hearing.
El Mahroug, meanwhile, was inspired to write to Woody Allen after he reportedly said, during this year's Cannes Film Festival, that he had seen photographs of her and wondered if she could act.
In her letter, El Mahroug said she was not the "man-eater that the media of the entire world have made me out to be", and had a dream to be the new "Mia Farrow or even Diane Keaton".
She said that in the midst of the bunga bunga sex scandal, she cheered herself up by watching some of Allen's films.
She said she was envious of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of the French president, who has a part in Allen's latest film, Midnight In Paris.
"What does she have that I don't? She is just luckier than me. She was born rich and slender. I've had to struggle for everything I've achieved."
While the teenager dreams of a career in acting, Berlusconi had to come to terms with a string of crushing defeats in local elections across Italy.
Berlusconi acknowledged the scale of the losses, which emerged when votes were counted on Monday, but expressed optimism.
"We lost. It's clear. But now we have to remain calm and move forwards. Every time I suffer a setback, I triple my forces," he said.
Woody Allen has won three Academy Awards and been nominated a total of 21 times: 14 as a screenwriter, six as a director, and one as an actor.
