MMM HMMM … and now we know why David Beckham was so insistent on staying in Milan, Italy to play professional soccer … he seems to have a very avid fanbase there that he seems to enjoy very much. While wife Vicki B. was making her way home away from Europe this week (taking her frightening neck with her), Becks attended the Anema E. Core Cancer Research gala event in Milan where he was shown much attention from the various women in attendance … including one in particular, socialite Gabriella Dompe, who paid a pretty penny for one of Becks‘s jerseys that was sold at auction at the event. Here are a few pics of Becks and some of his admirers at last night’s gala dinner event:

Victoria Beckham may want to look away now as these photos show her husband David proved a serious hit with the ladies at a charity event last night. The football star was a special guest at the Anema E Core Cancer Research gala dinner in Milan. No sooner had Beckham sat down than he was inundated by a succession of Italian ladies keen to flirt with the international heart-throb. All the AC Milan player had to do was sit there as one female admirer after another approached his table for a quick chat. Good-natured Beckham took the adulation in his stride and appeared to be having a great time at the event, which was held at Le Officine Del Volo. Italian socialite Gabriella Dompe was particularly pleased to meet him. Having placed the highest bid for a Beckham shirt at the fundraiser she threw her arms around the tuxedo-clad star as he welcomed her onstage. Wife Victoria is currently at the couple’s home in Los Angeles looking after their three sons. The former Spice Girl was in Milan with Beckham last week. She then travelled to London on Thursday for a series of meetings with her management company in Battersea. As well as promoting her new clothing range at New York Fashion Week, she has been keen to spend time with her husband.

Yes … isn’t it a shame that VB had to go and leave Italy before this lavish event took place? Poor Becks, all by himself … left to the whims and desires of all of those lovely Italian women. Hee hee … while I’m *sure* that nothing untoward occurred last night, you can tell by that devilish smile on Becks‘s face in the last pic that he was having a grand ol’ time without his wife.

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