18-year-old girl says ‘Papi’ Berlusconi will ‘fix her’ career in politics

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - After Silvio Berlusconi's recent comments that "all Italians want to be like me," a columnist has said that the premiere casts an impression of being an "angry, defeated and depressed man who is at odds with everyone". The columnist claimed Berlusconi has based his 15-year political career on image-making through his television and advertising empire, but the image is wearing thin - thanks to the controversies, reports The Times.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - A TV actress, who is known as the 'Queen Bee' and has a tattoo dedicated to "SB" on her ankle, has become the latest star of the 'Silvio Berlusconi saga'. Sabina Began, 35, is said to have introduced Berlusconi, 72, to Giampaolo Tarantini - the man who hired girls, including escorts, for parties at the Premier's official residences, reports The Telegraph.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - The escort girl at the centre of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sex tape scandal has threatened to sue the country's Foreign Minister. Patrizia D'Addario, a Bari prostitute, is threatening to take Franco Frattini to court for impugning her reputation as opposition MPs unleashed an attack on their PM for trying to compromise nation's security, reports The Times.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's private life is again in the spotlight after audiotapes of the Italian Prime Minister's alleged encounter with an escort girl at his Rome residence were posted on the internet. The Italian daily La Repubblica and its sister weekly, L'Espresso, published bits and bobs of the alleged bedroom conversation between Berlusconi and Patrizia D'Addario, the woman whom his aides describe as a prostitute, reports The Times.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's "scandals-filled" nightmare refuses to end. A former actress from Naples has given out details of a New Year's Eve party which was apparently held at the Italian Prime Minister's Sardinian villa, and featured 50 young women including naked lesbians.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been going through a divorce, has decided to solve the problem of not having a First Lady to play host to other leaders' spouses by appointing a former topless model to play the part. Former calendar girl Mara Carfagna, who is now Italy's Equal Opportunities Minister, will be looking after the wives of the world's top leaders at the G8 summit next week, reports the Scotsman.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi has been dragged into further controversy after another woman claimed that she was paid to attend the Italian Prime Minister's parties. Model Barbara Montereale said that Berlusconi gave her 10,000 euros "as a present" after attending one of his parties at Villa Certosa.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi doesn't need to pay for female company - he can get plenty of women free, his lawyer said. Following fresh revelations about the premier dominated Italian newspapers, Niccolo Ghedini, Berlusconi's chief legal adviser, made the comments.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Controversies involving Silvio Berlusconi refuse to die out, with the latest revelation being that celebrities and showgirls who were regular guests at the Italian Prime Minister's Sardinian villa called him Papi, or Daddy, as a codename in case their telephones were being tapped, it has emerged. The revelation was based on the first accounts from guests at the infamous New Year party.

May 28th, 2009 LONDON - The scandal surrounding Silvio Berlusconi's friendship with an 18-year-old aspiring model has started a new guessing game in Italy over its authenticity. His wife, however, is not happy with the news and has, infact, announced intentions of divorcing him in a newspaper.

May 25th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is likely to address Parliament over his alleged relationship with one 18-year-old Noemi Letizia. Letizia, who affectionately calls Berlusconi "Papi", came under media glare after Veronica Lario, the Italian leader's wife, announced their divorce saying that she could not stay with a man "who frequents minors".

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - A very public divorce and allegations of being an aspiring teenage model's "Papi" have put a dent in Silvio Berlusconi's popularity ratings, says a new poll. Italian Prime Minister's ratings have slipped by three points to 53 per cent nearly two weeks after his second wife, Veronica Lario, demanded a divorce over his relationships with starlets and with Noemi Letizia, to whom he gave a 5,400-poun pendant for her 18th birthday, reports The Times.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - The teenage lingerie model who appears to have brought Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the brink of divorce, says the controversial Italian leader wants her to be an MP. 'Papi [Daddy] Silvio will fix it,' Noemi Letizia was quoted as saying in an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Repubblica.

May 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - Rumours are abuzz that the 18-year-old girl at the center of the storm surrounding Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is his daughter. As per sources, Noemi Letizia calls the Italian leader 'Papi' or 'Daddy', reports the New York Post.

May 5th, 2009 Berlusconi denies any relationship with teenROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday the suggestion by his wife and the Italian media that he had a relationship with an 18-year-old girl was a "lie" and demanded his wife admit she was wrong if their relationship is to survive. Berlusconi went on a popular, late-night talk show on state-run television to refute the claims of his wife of 19 years, Veronica Lario, who has said she wants to divorce the billionaire media mogul-turned-politician because of his constant flirtations with younger women.