ROME(AP)—An Italian news weekly and newspaper have released tape recordings of what they say was the night Silvio Berlusconi spent with a prostitute in which the prime minister purportedly is heard asking her to wait for him in bed while he showers.

Niccolo Ghedini, Berlusconi’s lawyer, disputed the veracity of the tapes, saying Monday they were “without any merit, completely improbable and the fruit of invention.”

The escort, Patrizia D’Addario, has said she taped her encounters with Berlusconi as well as the parties he threw for young women at his residences —which have become the source of major scandal for the 72-year-old leader.

Berlusconi has denied he ever paid anyone for sex and has called the allegations “trash.” Polls show the months-long scandal has hardly dented Berlusconi’s popularity.