Berlusconi vows to quit if shown to have “spicy” relationship with teen model

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - After describing himself as "Superman", Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said: "Most Italians want to be like me." The controversial 72-year-old premier, who has repeatedly denied allegations of inappropriate relationships with young women, insisted during a television interview: "Most Italians would like to be like me and they support my behaviour. "Italian aren't stupid, as the Left thinks, and they prefer my government.

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 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.

July 1st, 2009 ROME - Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano has appealed to the politicians and media to observe a truce to ensure a smooth G8 summit. "It would be good, from here to the G8, given the delicacy of this huge international event, to have a truce in these controversies," The Telegraph quoted Napolitano, as saying.

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 13th, 2009 LONDON - Antonello Zappadu, the photographer whose controversial photos of topless young women bathing in Silvio Berlusconi's Sardinian villa appeared in a Spanish newspaper, has hinted that there are more pictures to come. In his first interview with a British newspaper, Zappadu has revealed that the unseen pictures show guests at Berlusconi's private paradise of Villa Certosa, and some snaps include a "mock marriage" between the Italian Prime Minister and a woman in her twenties.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister at the centre of a media storm since his wife Veronica Lario publicly questioned the nature of his relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model, has dismissed any talk of resignation. "Giving up has never crossed my mind.

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.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - Ex-boyfriend of Noemi Letizia, the 18-year-old aspiring model at the heart of Silvio Berlusconi's divorce row, says that Italian Prime Minister did not have sex with the teenager. In a letter to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, Luigi Flaminio apologised for talking about Berlusconi's relationship with Letizia publicly, and ruled out any sexual relationship.

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 29th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has blasted reports suggesting that he had a "steamy affair" with Noemi Letizia, the 18-year-old aspiring model at the heart of his divorce row, and said he would have to resign if caught lying about it. The 72-year-old conservative leader's relationship with Letizia created a huge furore after his wife Veronica demanded a divorce because of his womanising and said he was "not well".

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 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 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.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Brit footballer Ashley Cole has secretly been planning on taking a romantic break with his wife Cheryl Tweedy to Dubai, in order to renew their wedding vows. Cole, 28, plans on going in the summer after the football season, and to take Cheryl, 25, to the spot in the desert where he had proposed to her in 2005.