First sex was painful but pleasurable for virginity auctioning teen

Melbourne, May 20 (ANI): The 18-year-old Romanian girl who sold her virginity online for 20,000 dollars has revealed the details about her night with the winning bidder.

Pretty Alina Percea had auctioned her virginity on a website so that she could afford to study computing at university, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The auction’s winner was a 45-year-old Italian businessman who made a bid of 8,782 pounds.

The businessman paid for Alina, who underwent two medical examinations to prove her virginity, to fly to Venice where the couple toured the sights before spending a night in a luxury hotel.

Alina said: “I liked the man and got on with him well. He didn’t look 45, and he seemed much younger.

“We spoke in English as I can’t speak Italian and he can’t speak Romanian. He paid me a lot of compliments throughout the day, and he was very funny and charming. We got on very well, and I was pleased he’d won.

“He told me he had a good job, but he didn’t say if he was married or had a family, and I didn’t ask him.”

Alina, who was inspired to auction herself on a German erotic website after reading how American woman Natalie Dylan, 22, from San Diego, had put her virginity up for sale for 5million dollars, had hoped to raise as much as 100,000 dollars through the controversial sale but still plans to go to university.

“The bidding lasted two weeks,” she told Closer magazine.

“I hoped I’d meet a nice man, like in the film Pretty Woman,” Alina says.

“At the arrivals lounge, a man came over, smiled, handed me a box of chocolates and said: ‘Welcome to Venice.’ He looked much younger than 45, short, but nicely dressed, with dark hair, green eyes and a kind smile,” she added.

The two went sightseeing, then to a five-star hotel where they had unprotected sex.

“We kissed, then undressed each other. I’d never done that before, so I was nervous. He laid me on the bed and started kissing my body, then we had sex.

I was attracted to him, so I enjoyed it, even though it was quite painful. We only had sex once, then fell asleep.

Next morning, we had breakfast together like any other couple, and I took the morning-after pill. He told me he’d like to see me again, and I agreed,” she revealed.(ANI)

BNP to drop Fortis efforts if next vote is no: CEO

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) will abandon its attempts to buy the assets of Fortis (FOR.BR) if shareholders of the stricken Dutch-Belgian group reject the latest revised deal this month, BNP’s chief executive said.

“If it’s ‘no,’ the game will be over for us. On this point, I am ready to bet a box of chocolates, Belgian of course,” Baudoin Prot, the CEO of the French bank, was quoted as saying by Belgium’s Le Soir newspaper in comments published on Saturday.

After an 11.2 billion euro ($14.87 billion) cash injection failed to calm investors, Fortis was carved up by the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg governments in October.

BNP is poised to buy 75 percent of Fortis Bank in Belgium, which was once the banking arm of listed Fortis Holding but is now in state hands.

Fortis shareholders rejected the previous terms of this deal in February. They are set to vote on a revised plan at meetings scheduled for April 28 and 29.

Under the new terms, Fortis Bank would acquire a 25 percent stake in Fortis Insurance Belgium from Fortis Holding for 1.375 billion euros, with the financing guaranteed by BNP.

This new version would allow Fortis Holding to continue as an insurance company and would lower its exposure to toxic assets.

Shareholder agreement to the revised deal became more likely on Friday, when a Belgian court ruled that all Fortis investors — not just those who held shares when Fortis was broken up in October — may vote in the meetings at the end of April.

Fortis shares, which had previously been regarded as a solid investment, are now little more than a penny stock.

Prot stressed in the interview that, should the buyout go through, the chairman of the board of Fortis Bank would be a Belgian.

“This was not our idea at the start but, after some reflection, we have decided it would be better that way,” Le Soir quoted Prot as saying.

He said BNP had yet to decide who it would name to the post.

“I would like to name a strong Belgian figure, emanating from the business world, who is well familiar with the needs of the Belgian economy,” Le Soir quoted Prot as saying.

(Reporting by Anne Jolis, editing by Anthony Barker)

Gordon Brown tried to win over Bush with big box of chocolates

London, January 19 (ANI): Gordon Brown tried to woo U.S. President George W Bush by gifting him a big box of chocolates when they met for the first time, after the former was appointed British Prime Minister in the summer of 2007.

The revelation comes as the U.S. releases records on gifts to the outgoing president.

The records show that that Brown tried to win over his US counterpart with a deluxe selection of Charbonnel et Walker delights.

It was after Brown arrived by helicopter at Bush’s rural retreat that he handed over the gifts to the president.

Along with chocolates, Brown also handed over a copy of Churchill: The Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison, and a green, beige and red tartan blanket to Bush.

“Non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and US Government,” the Scotsman quoted the federal register, under which the gift is listed, as stating.

The newspaper report further reads that the form of words is understood to be used for the hundreds of small gifts the President receives every year from travelling statesmen and ambassadors.

All Federal employees, the president included, must register gifts they have received from foreign government sources. A total of 133 gifts are listed for 2007. (ANI)