Lady Gaga's choreographer says he thought it had "worked" between him and her dancers - after 10 of them accused him of toxic behaviour

He told Page Six about some of the dancers: "They were the underdogs - just like me - the weirdos. That's why when we were all together, it worked.

"I don't believe that they worked as much as me as a dancer outside of them being dancers for this job.

"(The Gaga job) was it. And it was OK that it was it because she's such a huge artist, who else matters?"

Shortly before Gaga's 'Chromatica Ball' tour kicked off in July 2022, 10 dancers made various claims about Richy, including allegations he had embarrassed them, talked down to them and had been disrespectful of their time.

Richy insists only one of the dancers who made complaints had been hired for the 'Chromatica Ball' tour.

He added: "I think to save face, for their pride, for their ego, they said, 'We walked away,' as opposed to, 'I just wasn't asked back.' I feel like they threw me under the bus for that."

Page Six said it had reached out to all of the dancers who were named in the Rolling Stone article or identified themselves online.

One declined to comment, while another, Knicole Haggins, said she resigned as one of Gaga's dancer during the 'Artpop' tour before 'Chromatica' - so said she couldn't have made allegations against Richy as she wasn't hired for the shows.

The rest of the dancers didn't respond to Page Six's request for comment.

It said Richy said the allegations have been heartbreaking, partly because he helped some of his accusers to break into the dance world.

He added he has text messages from some of them that they sent before the bad blood broke out, thanking him for the role he's played in their careers.

Richy also said it has been a long-term habit of his to explain to dancers why they didn't get a job at an audition, rather than sending them home.

He admitted he is disappointed it may have been interpreted as him "talking down" to dancers.

Richy also said about the other complaints - which included that he was "not considering the dancer's time or the toll extensive rehearsing was taking on their bodies" - came after behaviour of his that he considered well within the norms of elite-level dance.

Dancer Caroline Diamond previously said in a video: "He abused me, he embarrassed me, he made me feel terrible in the workplace, just because he could.

"Gaga was my dream... I chased it and I got it, and she is the dream, and then you get there, and this man makes your dream a nightmare."

All the dancers who made allegations against the choreographer spoke highly of Gaga, 37, and stressed she "had nothing to do with the situation, as she wasn't present for much of the dancers' rehearsals with Jackson".

Silvio Berlusconi has sparked fury by leaving £25.6 million to an old friend convicted of a mafia link and £85.4 million to his girlfriend.

The scandal-plagued late Italian Prime Minister, who died in June aged 86 after a cancer battle, has had the contents of his will revealed, with one of the main beneficiaries being Marcello Dell'Utri, a former senator in Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party.

Dell'Utri, 81, ran ad advertising agency for billionaire media mogul Berlusconi and was accused of being the key link between the three-time prime minister and the Cosa Nostra mafia of Sicily.

He fled Italy in 2014 but was arrested in Beirut on an Interpol warrant and served four years in prison and another under house arrest after being convicted of the charge of mafia association and forging links from the 1970s to '90s between Cosa Nostra bosses in his native Sicily and businesses owned by Berlusconi - but always denied the charges.

Dell'Utri said of his shock at his inheritance: "I have done nothing but cry since this morning: not so much because of the material gesture but because it shows the greatness of the man.

"I didn't expect it because he didn't owe me anything. I gave everything for him and he gave everything for me.

"We knew each other for over 60 years. He always helped me. Even at university he used to give me his notes."

The £85.4 million left by Berlusconi went to Marta Fascina, a 33-year-old MP who he had been in a relationship with for several years when he died.

They had a symbolic wedding ceremony in March 2022 which was not legally binding

Former mayor of Naples and centre-left politician Luigi de Magistris, 56, raged about the money on Twitter: "I think of the poor people, the young, who kill themselves working but can barely make it until the end of the month."

Berlusconi had an estimated £5.1 billion net worth when he died.

In his will, he also gave £86 million to his younger brother, Paolo, 73, and passed on his business empire to his five children.

Berlusconi's health was raised as an issue in 2021 when he was on trial on charges of bribing witnesses.

A Milan prosecutor said during the case it should be put on hold due to his illnesses.

He had been in and out of hospital in 2021 after he contracting Covid in September 2020.

Berlusconi was accused of bribing witnesses to stay silent over an underage prostitution case that started in 2013, and he has always denied any wrongdoing.

He was forced to resign as prime minister in 2011 and in 2013 he was found guilty of paying a guest at one of his parties, Karima el Mahroug, an under-age dancer known as Ruby the Heart Stealer, for sex.

Infamous for his 'bunga bunga' sex parties, accusations of orgies and a massive 70 criminal trials, Berlusconi was acquitted on appeal on the basis that he did not know she was 17.

He then faced accusations he paid his other guests millions of euros to lie about the parties in court.

Berlusconi had claimed that he was compensating them because their careers were damaged by the publicity from the case.