Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is demanding £3 million a month maintenance, it has been claimed, in what is likely to rank as one of the biggest divorce settlements in history. Veronica Lario, 53, who announced in April that she wanted a divorce after nearly 20 years of marriage, reportedly wants to be paid £39 million a year – a staggering sum even by the standards of Mr Berlusconi's stratospheric wealth. But that is more than ten times what Italy's 73-year-old prime minister is said to... Read Full Story
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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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called President Barack Obama "sun-tanned" again. Fresh from the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pa., the gaffe-proned politician told a crowd in Milan, "I bring you greetings from a person who is called...a person who is sun-tanned... Barack Obama." He took it a step further and said, "You wouldn't believe it, but they go sunbathing at the beach together - his wife is also sun-tanned." You will recall that he sparked international outrage last... Read Full Story
Associated Press : Tens of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, gathered in a Rome square Saturday to defend press freedom, accusing Premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices. Berlusconi, a media magnate, has dismissed the accusations as a "joke" and the demonstration as a "farce." He said this week that there is more press freedom in Italy than in any other Western country. Berlusconi owns the country's largest private broadcaster. As... Read Full Story
Italy's embattled prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, could face a raft of new prosecutions when the country's highest court rules on Tuesday whether a law which shields him from criminal prosecution should be repealed. If the court rules that that the law is unconstitutional, several cases involving the scandal-prone media tycoon will become active again. Mr Berlusconi pushed through the controversial law, which grants immunity to himself and Italy's three other most senior office holders... Read Full Story
A combative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said on Thursday he would keep governing with "even more grit" after Italy's top court lifted his immunity and said he would show that corruption charges against him were "laughable." But commentators warned that the political tension stemming from Wednesday's ruling from the country's highest court could lead to de-stabilization that could spill over into the economy and the legislative process... click here for more on this story from, Reuters... Read Full Story
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