US Edition Alina Percea, 18, from Romania, was so desperate to earn money to go to university she put her chastity up to the highest bidder.
The mystery winner, a 45-year-old Italian businessman from Bologna, paid for Alina to fly to Venice where the couple toured the sights before spending a night in a luxury hotel.
Alina, who underwent two medical examinations to prove her virginity, said: "I liked the man and got on with him well. He didn't look 45, and he seemed much younger.
"We spoke in English as I can't speak Italian and he can't speak Romanian. He paid me a lot of compliments throughout the day, and he was very funny and charming. We got on very well, and I was pleased he'd won.
"He told me he had a good job, but he didn't say if he was married or had a family, and I didn't ask him."
Alina left her home town of Caracal, Romania, in January with two cousins, to find work in Mannheim, Germany, but lost her job in a restaurant because her German was too poor.
She was inspired to auction herself on the German erotic website gesext.de after reading how American woman Natalie Dylan, 22, from San Diego, had put her virginity up for sale for £2.5m.
"It was all my own idea," she said.
"No-one put me up to it. I was pleased the bidding got up to 10,000 euros.
"It is not so much money but it means I can live at home with my parents while I go to university. It will help support us for the next two or three years."