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Jennifer Arcuri, the former model and friend of Boris Johnson for which the prime minister could have committed a crime of conflict of interest in the allocation of public funds, has granted an interview to the ITV talking about his relationship with the conservative leader. In it, far from denying that there had been a love story, he preferred to avoid questions on the subject by ensuring that it was not the business of others what they did or stopped doing at that time.

The former pole dance dancer, who says they created a link for her shared taste for classical literature - she says she called him 'Alex the Great' in reference to Alexander, Boris' first name - would have received help for a total of 125,000 euros for its two companies , Innotech and Hacker House, during the years when Johnson was mayor of London (2008-2016). Therefore, the premier will have to answer to the assembly of the British capital later this week.

Arcuri explained that the conservative leader went to visit her at his apartment, which served as an office, in Shoreditch (East London), "a few times." However, he gave up answering about whether they had had sex, in case his answers served to "shoot" at him. According to The Sunday Times , his friends say that there was more than friendship between them.

"It is not the business of others the private life that has existed or not among us. I will not answer about that because the press has 'objectified' me as a former pole dance model," he defended. "We tried to have drinks and go to lunch sometime in public, but such a show was formed that I told him that we better go to my office."

In that apartment, the American says that the prime minister asked him to "teach him some of the things he knew how to do" with the pole bar he had installed, although he refused to talk about whether Johnson had come to use it personally. "I will never tell you that," Arcuri replied.

What the American has wanted to tell is the way they both met in 2011 , when Boris, now 55, approached her, now 34, to ask for her company card. In the second meeting he asked directly for his personal number. "At that time I was a student, I didn't think I was going to come to the technological innovation events that I was organizing at the time, but that was the case," he recalls now.

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