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Italian former Big Brother contestant puts her virginity up for sale at 1million Euros
Last updated at 10:14am on 18.09.08
An Italian showgirl and former Big Brother contestant is trying to sell her virginity for a million Euros.
Raffaele Fico, 20, who has posed for a variety of magazines in a series of racy photographs, also wants to be an actress.
Ms Fico said she needed the money to buy an apartment because she wanted to move out of her rented house and get acting lessons.
For sale: Raffaele Fico, 20, has put her virginity up for a million euros in a bizarre auction
Ms Fico, from Naples, told glossy Italian weekly Chi:"I can't wait to see who's going to pull out the money to have me. I don't know what it's like to have sex.
"But if I don't like him I'll just have a glass of wine and forget about it."
Her brother told the magazine: "She's never had a boyfriend. I swear on my mother's grave.
"She's a devout Catholic and prays to Padre Pio every night."
Fico is a 'devout Catholic' who has never had a boyfriend, her brother swears
Fico, whose asking price translates into almost £700,000, is not the first woman to offer her virginity for big money.
An 18-year-old US student in San Diego, Natalie Dylan, recently told the Howard Stern show she would have sex for the first time for $1million to pay her college fees.
In 2005 a Peruvian model, also 18, put herself up for sale to help pay her family's medical bills but ended up having second thoughts and turning down $1.5million.
Manchester University student Carys Copestake asked for £10,000 to pay her fees on a website last year.
The 18-year-old reportedly found a buyer but would not talk about it.
Reader views (7)
"Big Brother contestant is nothing but a tawdry slapper" - what a shocker...
- H, London, UK
I think this is much more smart than give virginity to someone from a bar. Now she will get money for rest of her life. You have give your virgin to someone jerk and you still need money.
- Yes!, Lapland Finland
That's virgin on the ridiculous!!
- Jamie B, Twickenham, UK
There are names for girls who charge for sex and not very nice ones either. I hope these "ladies" are actually sparing a thought for those that are forced into this line of work through poverty or addiction and to them £1 million for one job would mean getting themselves out of a hole and starting again? It makes me sick to read of fame hungry wanabees trying to do as less as possible for as much money as possible.
- Natty, London
Call it what you will, she's a prostitute.
- Isabel, woking
Hugely overpriced!!
If you have a $1m sitting around, you would have better looking girls throwing themselves at you!
My preference are Russian ladies who charge much less!
- William Jenkins, london
If she's a virgin I'll eat my car.
- Alex C, London
