Prosecutors to quiz scandal-hit Berlusconi’s alleged visitors at spa

September 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - After making news for his alleged sexcapades, Silvio Berlusconi is back in the limelight - but this time it's because of his "not-so-amusing" comments. After meeting the Obamas at the G20 dinner in Pittsburgh, the Italian PM told a rally on Sunday night: "I bring you greetings from a very suntanned man...

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Giampaolo Tarantini, the businessman who claims to have supplied Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, with a stream of women for parties, has been arrested at Bari airport in southern Italy. Antonio Laudati, the chief prosecutor in Bari, said Tarantini had been arrested at Bari airport for "dealing in drugs" and in case he tried to flee the country.

September 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - Reverend Jesse Jackson offered spiritual solace to Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a new book claims. Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch has made the allegation in his upcoming tome 'The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President'.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's daughter Marina, who is ranked the 10th most powerful businesswoman in the world by Fortune magazine, has come to her father's defence, saying he has been "stabbed in the back" by months of revelations about his sex life. The 43-year-old came to his defence after Giampaolo Tarantini, a businessman under investigation for alleged drug and prostitution offences, told prosecutors in Bari, southern Italy, that he had supplied 31 women for the prime minister's parties between last September and January, reports The Times.

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 11th, 2009 LONDON - The escort girl who is at the centre of allegations involving Silvio Berlusconi's scandalous sex life has compared herself to Joan of Arc, a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. Patrizia D'Addario had earlier alleged that she spent a night with the Italian Prime-minister in his palazzo in Rome.ow, she claims that the leader's allies are attempting to destroy her reputation.

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 12th, 2009 LONDON - While Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was busy attending world leaders at the G8 summit in his country, a new chapter unfolded in the sex scandal haunting him for months. A magazine has alleged that the PM had spent a weekend in a luxurious Umbrian health spa with an entourage of women, including an actress and a former showgirl who have worked for his television stations.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Up to 30 young women are to be questioned by Italian prosecutors in connection with parties thrown by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it has been reported.rosecutors will begin questioning the girls later this week. La Repubblica newspaper had claimed that the women, including Eastern European models, were recruited to attend at least five parties thrown by Berlusconi at his mansion in central Rome and his villa on Sardinia's exclusive Costa Smeralda, reports The Telegraph.

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 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife Veronica Lario has shot down reports claiming that she cheated on the Italian premier during their 19-year marriage. After tiring of his womanizing ways, Lario, 52, is seeking a divorce from the Prime Minister.

June 7th, 2009 LONDON - Identity of the naked man, who was caught in a state of arousal next to Silvio Berlusconi's swimming pool at his Sardinian villa, has been revealed - it's Mirek Topolanek, the former Czech prime minister. Spot on the Italian prime minister's reputation became darker after the publication of explicit photographs taken at his villa that showed topless women and a naked man, reports the Guardian.

May 9th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Rihanna has become the latest star caught in a nude photo scandal after salacious pictures allegedly featuring the singer were posted online. Rihanna's face can be clearly seen in shots that show the 'Umbrella' singer stripping for the camera, reported contactmusic.com The new photos that were posted on imagehaven.in have come just days after Rihanna made her first public appearance following an alleged fight with Chris Brown in Los Angeles on the eve of the Grammy Awards in February.

February 26th, 2009 LONDON - Dev Patel, the 'Slumdog Millionaire' star, will appear on the quiz show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' to raise money for street kids. Thesun.co.uk reports that the 18-year-old Dev will appear on the show along with director Danny Boyle.