Berlusconi And The Bambina

May 28. 2009

Has Berlusconi been hitting the Viagra trying to hit something else, as the modern phrase goes

Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, 72, who called President Barack Obama "suntanned" which I did not find offensive, is in a bit of hot water this week.

Noemi Letizia is a drawers model and aspiring actress

He is being accused of having an affair with a then 17-year-old minor in Italy, Noemi Letizia, who is now 18. His wife is divorcing him, alleging adultery via multiple affairs. She is also stating he is "not well" mentally.

In Bubba Clinton speak "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

Berlusconi denies having an affair with the teenager. He attended the teenager's birthday and presented her with a diamond necklace, which raised eyebrows...and his wife's temper.

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8:58AM Wednesday May 27, 2009 - Italians are always scornful about the obsession of the "Anglo-Saxon" media with the private lives of the rich and famous, but for the past month the Italian newspapers have been preoccupied with one subject and one subject only: the relationship between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a young woman from Naples called Noemi Letizia.

Mr Berlusconi has been caught out telling numerous lies about the relationship and refuses to explain them.

The media cannot be accused of muck-raking on the issue because it was Mr Berlusconi himself who drew attention to the relationship in Tuesday when he took advantage of a trip to Naples to drop in on Noemi's 18th birthday party.

There he posed for photographs and presented the pretty young blonde with a gold and diamond pendant worth NZ$14,500. This unremarkable event was immortalised in a short news story the next day in La Repubblica.

And there it would have ended, except that within four days it provided Mr Berlusconi's second wife, Veronica, with the casus belli for a divorce.

Her husband, she said in a press release, was "consorting with minors"; he was "not well", she was worried about him, but in the meantime, after nearly 30 years together, she was in no doubt that the marriage was over...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz