Berlusconis Row Over PM's Wandering Eye

Veronica Lario will take reduced alimony payment

(NEWSER) - Love hurts, but it's divorce that's pummeling Silvio Berlusconi's wallet, reports the Independent . He's agreed to fork over a $105 million villa that soon-to-be ex-wife Veronica Lario is extremely attached to, and she in return will settle for alimony much less than the $5.3 million a month she had originally demanded. The missus, armed with Berlusconi's string of sex scandals, had vowed to make things messy if the Italian PM didn't go along with one of the most expensive divorce settlements in history. More»

(NEWSER) - Silvio Berlusconi's antics with models and call girls have threatened to derail his government, but the woman at the center of the sex-and-corruption scandal says she's seen it all before. "This is how Italy always works," Patrizia D’Addario tells the Financial Times. The hooker says she came forward to protect herself and recounts how her house was robbed by burglars who stole her underwear and photos from the PM. More»

Italian business leader disturbed at PM's characterization of her

(NEWSER) - Emma Marcegaglia runs Italy’s industrialist association and just might be the country’s most powerful woman. But that didn’t stop Silvio Berlusconi from likening her to a showgirl today, Reuters reports. Speaking to Marcegaglia’s organization, the gaffe-prone Italian premier recalled when “an usher told me a showgirl was there to see me. She was in great form, very elegant.” More»

Elizabeth Edwards exacted an 'exquisite' form of revenge against her cheating hubby

(NEWSER) - Veronica Lario, the scorned wife of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, has much to learn from Elizabeth Edwards about revenge American style, Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times. When Lario filed for divorce and publicly griped about his caddish ways, Berlusconi just turned the tables by demanding a public apology (“And I don’t know if that will be enough,” he added.) Elizabeth, meanwhile, stayed with her cheating hubby, but bested him with the Oprah treatment. More»

Lario slammed PM for surrounding himself 'with children'

(NEWSER) - Silvio Berlusconi is demanding an apology from his wife for her public complaints over the PM’s appreciation of young women, the Times of London reports. Berlusconi alleged that Veronica Lario had been “put up” to discredit him before June elections by his political enemies. Berlusconi said this marriage could probably not be saved, and added: “I don’t know if I want to save it this time." More»