Naked Photos Surface From Italian PM's Mansion

June 5. 2009

Silvio Berlusconi

The past few weeks have spawned crisis after crisis for Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, 72. He is facing the demise of his marriage, due to articles splashing his alleged affair with a 17-year-old girl, all over the front pages.

The story grew more scandalous when it was revealed he bought the teenaged underwear model a diamond necklace for her birthday.

This week Spanish newspaper El Pais published photos of topless women and a naked man at Prime Minister Berlusconi's mansion in Sardinia.

Berlusconi's fury as photographs of topless women and naked man cavorting at his villa are published

Last updated at 7:07 PM on 05th June 2009 - Controversial photographs showing topless women and a nude man inside Silvio Berlusconi's estate in Sardinia have been published by a Spanish newspaper.

Today the Italian Prime Minister slammed the photographs as an invasion of privacy and insisted they were innocent.

He threatened to sue Spanish newspaper El Pais, which published the images. Berlusconi had successfully applied to have 700 pictures taken by photographer Antonello Zappadu seized by the Italy´s privacy commission.

El Pais published the images on its website and in its paper today - running one of the more demure images showing Berlusconi's face on its front

But five of the embarrassing photographs were published today by El Pais, a leading Spanish daily, under the headline: 'The photos vetoed by Berlusconi'...

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