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  • Italian police are investigating the murder of a Brazilian transsexual caught up in a drugs and prostitution scandal that forced the resignation of one of Italy’s top politicians last month.
  • The soot-encrusted corpse of the victim – known only as Brenda – was found this morning after a fire in her basement flat. She was one of two prostitutes at the heart of a case involving the blackmail of Piero Marrazzo, the former governor of Lazio, the region around Rome.
  • A leading figure in the centre-left opposition to Silvio Berlusconi’s government, Marrazzo was found to have been blackmailed by four members of the paramilitary carabinieri who filmed him while he had sex and took cocaine with one of the transsexuals. He resigned and fled to a monastery near Rome.
  • Marrazzo’s lawyer today called for police protection to be given to the other prostitute in the case.
  • The former governor’s demise overtook and eclipsed an earlier scandal involving Berlusconi himself.