Berlusconi dismisses resignation talk over teen model scandal

October 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The prostitute at the center of Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal gave out intimate details of their purported encounter on live TV. Patrizia D'Addario appeared on a prime time RAI talk show hosted by Michele Santoro, a one-time center-left European Parliamentarian.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - Responding to the sex scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi, Umberto Bossi, the key coalition partner in the Italian PM's government, said he believed Mafia had orchestrated all the dirty activities. "I think everything has been put in place by the Mafia," Bossi, the leader of the Northern League, said as he arrived at an event in Pian del Re in the north of the country.

August 8th, 2009 LONDON - Despite drowning in scandals involving prostitutes and kinky parties, Silvio Berlusconi insists that he has nothing to feel sorry for and "no skeletons in his closet". While responding to apparent criticism from his daughter, Barbara, the 72-year-old premier said he had "no skeletons in his closet and cannot be blackmailed by anybody", reports The Telegraph.

July 26th, 2009 LONDON - After weeks of excruciating disclosures about Silvio Berlusconi's private life, the Italian leader is apparently trying to restore his dignity by planning a "sober summer". Berlusconi, whose reputation was tainted when an alleged postcoital conversation of him was captured on tape by escort girl Patrizia D'Addario, wants to put the sex scandal behind him.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Having played host to showgirls, a teenage model and a prostitute, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's suitability to receive world's first ladies for G8 has come under question, especially after French first lady Carla Bruni announced she would not attend the official G8 events in Rome. The official party of First Ladies, including Michelle Obama and Sarah Brown, is expected to arrive today for a three-day visit to Rome and the earthquake-stricken city of L'Aquila, The Times reports.

July 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The sex scandal swirling around Silvio Berlusconi took a fresh turn when a reality TV show contestant claimed that he had only posed as the boyfriend of aspiring model Noemi Letizia, after the Italian premier attended her 18th birthday party in April. Domenico Cozzolino, 21, said that his 'fake' relationship with Letizia had been organised, but he refused to say by whom.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi might be questioned regarding the sleazy allegations swirling around him. The 72-year-old media tycoon-turned-politician, though not under investigation, might be quizzed as part of the inquiry into Giampaolo Tarantini, a local businessman at the centre of a scandal involving women sent to parties hosted by the Prime Minister.

June 26th, 2009 LONDON - The sex scandal plaguing Silvio Berlusconi took a fresh turn yesterday after a Bari escort girl gave more details of her first meeting with the Italian PM, saying: "It felt like a harem. And there was only one sheikh.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - Despite allegations of sleaze swirling around Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian premiere tasted success in provincial elections. In the elections, the 72-year-old tycoon's Right People of Freedom party was handed nine more provinces.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is involved in a fresh sex scandal after a former model claimed to have pictures showing the two of them in his bedroom. Patrizia DAddario, who claims that she and other women were paid to attend Berlusconis private parties, said Thursday she had secretly recorded video footage of her encounters in the prime ministers Rome residence.

June 15th, 2009 ROME - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said that subversives are planning a palace coup of sorts to impose an un-elected leader on the country. Addressing a business lobby group, Berlusconi said: "There is a campaign of scandals against me.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed he will quit if it is shown he lied over his relationship with Noemi Letizia, an 18-year-old aspiring model. Last night, the multi-millionaire premier pledged that he will step down from his post after Spanish newspaper El Pais published photos of topless women and a nude man at his Sardinian home.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi, apparently, has a thing for controversies. Speculations regarding the Italian prime minister's relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model are still on, and now, a new scandal has popped up.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - The ex-boyfriend of Noemi Letizia, the 18-year-old aspiring model at the heart of Silvio Berlusconi's divorce row, has blamed the Italian Prime Minister for the breakdown of his relationship. Berlusconi's ties with Letizia have already angered his wife Veronica Lario, 52.

May 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's reputation received another blow when pictures of him and Noemi Letizia, the 18-year-old accused of being at the heart of his divorce, were published showing them attending a Christmas party given by AC Milan, the football club that he owns. Photographs and a video clip were published by La Repubblica, the newspaper, on its website showing Letizia attending the party with her mother, Anna Palumbo, reports The Times.