Barbara Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi was booed by a studio audience after he launched an extraordinary attack on Italy's judiciary and media from his sick bed to a current affairs programme on national television. t was the prime minister's first response to an Italian court's decision to uphold a four-and-a-half year prison sentence against British tax lawyer David Mills for accepting a massive bribe from Mr Berlusconi in exchange for lying in court about his business dealings. Mr Mills, the estranged husband of cabinet minister Tessa Jowell, is appealing the verdict... click here for the rest of this article from, The Telegraph. Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / Silvio Berlusconi Has Decided To Launch A Revolution. Or Is It A One Man Coup? May 23, 2009 Adam Lovejoy writes from Rome: Say what you will about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi but he is a man who enjoys the trappings of power and is not afraid to show it. He is probably one of the few leaders in Europe who manages to combine his busy official schedule with a colourful private life. One of the young women that he has been linked with, 18-year old Noemi Letizia who calls him ‘Papi’, has landed him ... Read Full Story

ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italy's flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will soon learn whether a controversial law granting top officials immunity from prosecution will remain on the books, after the country's top court heard arguments about it Tuesday. Berlusconi remains a popular leader among Italians with approval ratings over 50 percent. The Italian Constitutional Court could open the way for the billionaire prime minister to face charges of bribery, influence peddling and tax fraud if it strikes down the law. Berlusconi's government introduced the law last year after he came to power. It shields the country's president and prime minister from prosecution, along with ... Read Full Story

Berlusconi denies affair with model Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied having an affair with an underage girl and said he would resign if he was caught lying about it. Mr Berlusconi said that if someone asked had he had "a spicy or more than spicy" relationship with a minor, his answer would be "absolutely not". "I have sworn this on the lives of my children," he told reporters in Rome. Mr Berlusconi, 72, is under pressure to explain his relationship with Noemi Letizia, 18, an aspiring model. His wife, Veronica Lario, announced earlier this month that she was divorcing him after it ... Read Full Story

The Guardian : As Silvio Berlusconi yesterday tried to shore up his position by declaring himself irreplaceable as Italy's head of government, a court in Milan was told it had been "amply demonstrated" that he was guilty of bribery. "I am, and not only in my own opinion, the best prime minister who could be found today," he told a press conference. "I believe there is no one in history to whom I should feel inferior. Quite the opposite." The problem, he explained, was that "In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, ... Read Full Story