Silvio's soap."An art work purportedly made from excess fat from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. has been sold for $18,000," reports the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . Artist Gianni Motti asserts he bought the fat from a clinic where the politician underwent liposuction Liposuction Definition Liposuction, also known as lipoplasty or suction-assisted lipectomy, is cosmetic surgery performed to remove unwanted deposits of fat from under the skin. . Motti shaped it into a bar of soap and named it Mani Pulite Mani pulite (Italian for clean hands) was a nationwide Italian judicial investigation into political corruption held in the 1990s, following the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982, which implicated mafia, Vatican Bank and P2, and the Maxi Trial of the mid-1980s. (Clean Hands), a reference to an anti-corruption campaign of the 1990s. "I came up with the idea because soap is made of pig fat, and I thought how much more appropriate it would be if people washed their hands using a piece of Berlusconi," Motti said. |
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