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Silvio Berlusconi stories: 93 news summaries

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(Newser) - It's probably not a bad time for Silvio Berlusconi to get out of the country for a bit. The Italian prime minister will visit the White House June 15 to talk with President Obama about serious G8 stuff ahead of next month's world summit, reports AFP. Back home, meanwhile, Berlusconi... More »

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Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • scandal • Noemi Letizia • El Pais

(Newser) - A Spanish newspaper has printed photos Silvio Berlusconi managed to keep out of the Italian press, showing a naked man and "semi-naked" young women lounging around the pool at the Italian PM's villa in Sardinia, the Guardian reports. The photos in El Pais had the faces pixelated out... More »

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Italy • nude photo • Silvio Berlusconi • El Pais • Antonello Zappadu

 Who's Your Daddy? 
 For Models, It's 
 'Papi' Berlusconi 

Pressure grows on Italian PM for showgirl antics

Jun 3, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi is still fighting suggestions of an improper relationship with an 18-year-old, but the Times of London reports that several young showgirls and TV presenters were at the Italian PM's infamous New Year's Party—and call him code name Papi, or "Daddy." A judge has suppressed photos... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • Noemi Letizia

Berlusconi Blocks Release
of Topless Photos

Images from New Year's party violate privacy, PM says

May 30, 09 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi can rest easy: Racy photos allegedly showing young, bikini-clad and topless women frolicking at his villa will be sealed, BBC reports. The Italian prime minister said the 700 images, furtively snapped by a photographer on the island of Sardinia, violated his guests’ privacy. Meanwhile pressure is mounting on... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • affair • Silvio Berlusconi • Noemi Letizia

 Berlusconi Denies 
 Affair With Teen 

Italian PM says he will resign if caught lying about relationship with model

May 29, 09 1:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi has fiercely denied having sex with a teenage girl and says he will resign if caught lying, the BBC reports. The 72-year-old Italian prime minister's alleged relationship with model Noemi Letizia, now 18, was cited by his wife as her reason for divorcing him and the issue has... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • Noemi Letizia

Berlusconi Irate Over Pesky Media Questions

Italian PM walks out of interview when asked about teen model

May 24, 09 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi owns nearly half of Italy’s television stations—but not La Repubblica, the Italian daily that has incensed the PM with questions about his connection to an 18-year-old model, the Guardian reports. When a reporter asked about Berlusconi's appearance at her birthday party, Berlusconi took offense, saying... More »

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media • newspaper • Italy • prime minister • parliament • authoritarianism • Silvio Berlusconi • La Repubblica • investigative journalism • Noemi Letizia

analysis

Blair's Path
to EU Helm
Grows Clearer

If Irish approve Lisbon treaty, ex-PM in line for newly created position

May 22, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - If Ireland votes yes on the Lisbon treaty, officially creating the role of EU president, Tony Blair is looking more and more like the man for the job. Not that the former UK prime minister has publicly expressed any interest—he's remained tactfully silent—but he has pockets of support... More »

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Tony Blair • Angela Merkel • European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • Gordon Brown • Ireland • Silvio Berlusconi • Lisbon Treaty • EU president

'Showgirl' Crack Is Berlusconi's Latest Gaffe

Italian business leader disturbed at PM's characterization of her

May 21, 09 3:22 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Italy • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • political scandal • insult • Veronica Lario • Emma Marcegaglia • showgirls

Bribed Lawyer Lied to Protect Berlusconi

Italian PM faces calls to resign after court ruling in corruption case

May 20, 09 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi is facing calls to resign as Italy's prime minister, reports the Times of London, after an Italian court found his lawyer guilty of accepting a bribe to protect him from corruption charges. In a 400-page verdict released yesterday, the judges said that attorney David Mills—the estranged husband... More »

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Italy • bribery • corruption • perjury • immunity • Silvio Berlusconi • David Mills

OPINION

 Stand By Your Man (So You Can Drag Him Through Mud) 

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

May 10, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(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... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Italy • adultery • Silvio Berlusconi • political scandal • Veronica Lario

 Berlusconi's Mystery Girl 
 Could Be His Kid 

Divorce scandal gets even stranger with rumors flying

May 6, 09 9:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rumors are flying in Italy that the 18-year-old entangled in Silvio Berlusconi’s divorce drama—who calls him “Papi”—is his daughter, the New York Post reports. The prime minister sparked his wife’s ire by attending Noemi Letizia’s 18th birthday party and claims to be friends... More »

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divorce • Italy • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • scandal • Noemi Letizia

(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi’s penchant for flirting isn’t just annoying his wife—it bothers the Vatican, too. In an editorial, church officials warned Italy’s prime minister to adopt a more “sober and somber” lifestyle, the Telegraph reports. The front-page piece in the church's official newspaper decried his “... More »

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Catholic Church • Italy • Vatican • Silvio Berlusconi • flirting

 Berlusconi Demands 
 Apology From Wife 

Lario slammed PM for surrounding himself 'with children'

May 4, 09 1:06 PM CDT
(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... More »

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television • media • divorce • Italy • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • Italian elections • election • Veronica Lario

 Flirty Berlusconi's 
 Wife to Divorce Him 

Has previously attacked his philandering

May 3, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reports of Silvio Berlusconi attending an 18-year-old woman's birthday party proved too much for the missus, and the BBC says Veronica Lario will file for divorce from the faux pas-ridden Italian PM. "That's enough," Lario said in Italian reports. "I cannot remain with a man who consorts... More »

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divorce • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • flirting • celebrity divorces • Veronica Lario

 Berlusconis Row Over 
 PM's Wandering Eye 

Soap opera of feuding first couple grips Italy

Apr 30, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi's wife is taking her complaints of philandering and dishonesty to the press—and it's not the first time she's done so, the New York Times reports. The Italian first lady was angry that Berlusconi went to the 18th birthday party of a business associate's daughter, who has been... More »

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Italy • marriage • infidelity • Silvio Berlusconi • Veronica Lario

Italy Seeks to Move G8 to Quake-Hit Town

Berlusconi wants world leaders to meet in L'Aquila in July

Apr 23, 09 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi pledged today to move this summer's G8 summit to L'Aquila, where an earthquake killed 296 people and destroyed the homes of 65,000, Reuters reports. The meeting is set to take place on a small island off Sardinia, but the Italian PM said he would rather see the... More »

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Italy • G8 summit • Sardinia • Silvio Berlusconi • earthquake • L'Aquila • Abruzzo

 Berlusconi Taps  
 Babes as Italy's 
 EU Reps 

From strip joints to Italian cabinet to Strasbourg

Apr 23, 09 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bevy of beauties with no previous political experience have been tapped by randy Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi to represent Italy in European Parliament elections, reports the Times of London. But first, they're undergoing a crash course in politics and current affairs. Berlusconi, 72, has surrounded himself with models, stars... More »

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politics • European Union • Europe • Italy • sexism • Silvio Berlusconi • Strasbourg • Barbara Matera

(Newser) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has appalled the world with his crass remarks, yet somehow remains popular at home. "Is there a logic to what might seem like a strange form of Tourette's syndrome?" asks Alexander Stille, analyzing the gaffe-prone pol in The New Republic. The answer to Berlusconi's... More »

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European Union • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • politicians

 Berlusconi's Latest Gaffe: 
 Quake Homeless 'Camping' 

Berlusconi slammed for gaffe as quake toll hits 260

Apr 8, 09 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi is drawing fire for reportedly saying the thousands made homeless by Monday's earthquake should see the experience as a "camping weekend," the Guardian reports. The gaffe-prone Italian prime minister, touring an emergency encampment, said the displaced survivors "lacked nothing," although hundreds still didn't... More »

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Italy • gaffe • Silvio Berlusconi • disaster zones • earthquake • L'Aquila

(Newser) - Rescuers today pulled a 20-year-old female student alive from the rubble of the earthquake in Italy, more than 42 hours after it struck, Sky News reports. "She's safe!" the woman's uncle told AP. She appears to be fine, except for a minor arm injury. As strong aftershocks rattled... More »

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Italy • natural disaster • survivors • Silvio Berlusconi • earthquake • search and rescue

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