Former Big Brother contestant puts her virginity
up for sale at over 700 thousands of pounds

Former Italian Big Brother contestant is trying to sell her virginity for a million Euros. Raffaele Fico revealed her plan while posing for racy photographs in an Italian magazine.

Ms Fico, 20, wants the money so she can buy a house and take acting lessons.

"I can’t wait to see who’s going to pull out the money to have me," she said in the interview. "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 every night."

Ms Fico, whose asking price works out as 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 a US radio show she would have sex for the first time for $1 million (£600,00aprox) to pay her university 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 thousands of pounds. Manchester University student Carys Copestake asked for £10,000 to pay her fees on a website last year.

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Released on Friday 26th September 2008