‘You need to have tits’ to be part of Berlusconi’s party, claims ex MEP

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.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and philosopher, has blasted Silvio Berlusconi's moves to sue newspapers for their investigation of the sex scandals which have dogged him. Eco is among the 115,000 people who by Monday had signed an online message of solidarity with La Repubblica.

August 27th, 2009 LONDON - The marriage and political career of Silvio Berlusconi could be saved by sex addiction therapy, according to an updated biography of Veronica Lario, the Italian Prime Minister's estranged wife. The explosive tome, by Maria Latella, an Italian journalist who has known Lario for 18 years, appeared in Italian bookshops yesterday.

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.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Patrizia D'Addario, the escort girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is reportedly planning to write a book about her erotic adventures. Meanwhile, D'Addario, 42, who recorded her encounter with the 72-year-old tycoon on her mobile telephone, visited police in Bari on Wednesday and sources at the prosecutor's office said she was there to file a counter claim against her former lover's wife and to discuss the allegations of attempted murder, reports The Times.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Patrizia D'Addario, the escort girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has been accused of attempting to murder a former boyfriend. D'Addario, 42, who recorded her encounter with the 72-year-old tycoon on her mobile telephone, visited police in Bari on Wednesday and sources at the prosecutor's office said she was there to file a counter claim against her former lover's wife and to discuss the allegations of attempted murder, reports The Telegraph.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Patrizia D'Addario, the escort girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is to appear at a themed party entitled 'I Love Silvio' in her honour at a Paris nightclub. The 42-year-old is embarking on the publicity campaign tomorrow, reports The Times.

July 23rd, 2009 PERTH - Baby clothes with inappropriate slogans like "The condom broke", "I'm a tits man", "Pardon my nipple breath", and "I'm living proof my mum is easy", are said to have caused outrage with family groups. Other clothes had slogans saying, "Mummy likes it on top", "Wipe my butt sucker", "So hot right now", "I like big boobs and I cannot lie", "I'm bringing sexy back", and "Practice safe suck".

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.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi has blasted a call girl who claims she was paid to attend one of his parties, accusing her of being part of a coordinated "mission" to compromise his integrity. Responding to the claims that he slept with escort Patrizia D'Addario at a party at his Rome mansion in November, he said: "Someone gave a very precise and extremely well paid mission to this Miss D'Addario." The Italian Prime Minister gave the response in an interview with magazine, Chi, 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 1st, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's allies have blamed his wife Veronica Lario for breaking their marriage. In an interview to pro-Berlusconi Libero, Daniele Santanche, a centre-right MP and long-time friend of Berlusconi, has revealed that Lario is close to a member of her security detail.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's wife seems to have won the battle against Italian prime minister's eye for attractive young women. His party has decided not to promote the four starlets Berlusconi recommended as candidates for the European Parliament.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Madonna's new man Jesus Luz claims he did not cheat on her with a lingerie model as his mother was close by. Luz agreed that he danced with model Luciano Costa at a party in his native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but affirms she is just a 'friend', thesun.co.uk reports.