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To: Apex who wrote (4158)	2/12/2001 12:20:48 AM
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who is he fooling ===== Playboy renounces the world to become a monk By Bruce Johnston in Rome A SICILIAN playboy who claims scores of female conquests and nine illegitimate children is to become a monk. The man, identified only as A P and described as a wealthy, married businessman and grandfather, said he was leaving his family and home on the island of Lipari off Sicily for a monastery near Zurich to prepare to take his vows as Brother Roberto. He said yesterday: "I want to live in poverty," as he waited alone to board a ferry for the island. "I implored my loved ones to remain at home. I did not want to make them cry. However painful it may be for them, they have given me their support." Asked why he had waited so long to make his decision, the "Playboy of the Aeolian Islands" replied: "Because only now have I realised what the essence of life is all about: to help the suffering. I consider myself a great sinner. I have had more love affairs than I can count. I reckon I have fathered at least nine children through encounters where I have made many people suffer. Now I want to help others." He said he had decided to call himself Brother Roberto because of an affair he had as a young man. "I was 20 and an English girl I was with gave birth to a boy. We had been having a happy affair, or so I thought, and we brought this baby into the world. I left after a few months. "I was later told that the baby, called Roberto, died after only a year when he fell from his high chair. I am convinced that if I had been there it wouldn't have happened."