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Since April, the coverage of the 72-year-old billionaire mogul turned politico has read like something between an airport romance novel and soft porn. On April 26, Berlusconi showed up at the 18th birthday party of leggy Neapolitan blond Noemi Letizia with the gift of a diamond necklace. Within two days, Berlusconi's wife of 20 years, Veronica Lario, announced she wanted a divorce, claiming that her husband "frequents underage females." (See Berlusconi's Worst Gaffes...
...writing, of course, about the Berlusconi sex scandal that has been all over the Italian papers since the end of April. Berlusconi is alleged to have had an inappropriate relationship with an 18 year-old aspiring show-girl, Napoli’s Noemi Letizia...
...gave her a $10,000 necklace. A few days later Veronica Laria, Berlusconi’s wife of 19 years, told the Italian press that she was filing for divorce because of her husband’s dalliances with young women, citing in particular his bizarre relationship with Letizia. Earlier this month, the scandal really took off: Photographs came out in the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, which depicted nude guests (including Mirek Toplanek, the former Czech prime minister) at a party that Berlusconi had hosted at Villa Certosa last summer. Then on Thursday the Italian press reported that Berlusconi allegedly...
Berlusconi has denied it all. He says that his relationship with Letizia has only ever been appropriate and his parties innocent. And no, he has never paid for companionship. He adds that he cannot even have sex, due to an operation he had on his prostate. The prime minister claims that these false attacks have been launched by his enemies; in particular, he blames the left for trying to undermine him right before the EU elections, which took place at the beginning of the month, and the upcoming G8 conference, which will be held in L’Aquila...
...Berlusconi largely quieted that episode with explicit denials of anything "spicy" in his relationship with Letizia. But a potentially more damaging turn came last week, when investigators in the southern city of Bari confirmed that they were probing accusations that a local businessman, Giampaolo Tarantini, paid for women to attend dinners and parties at Berlusconi's private Rome residence, Palazzo Grazioli, and his villa on the island of Sardinia. One of the women, Patrizia D'Addario, had told Milan daily Corriere della Sera that she was paid several thousand euros to attend two dinner parties at Palazzo Grazioli last fall...