Do you know Silvio?

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"ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an underage Moroccan runaway — and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than gays.

His comments sparked outrage from gay rights groups and fueled new calls for him to step down.

Opposition politicians have charged that Berlusconi abused his office by calling Milan police in May when the then-17-year-old runaway nicknamed Ruby was detained for alleged theft. Newspapers have reported that Berlusconi told police that a local party official would take custody of the girl, who had visited Berlusconi's Milan villa on at least one occasion.

Even center-right commentators in Berlusconi's family-owned newspapers have criticized him for intervening in a possible criminal case. Berlusconi's now-estranged ally, Gianfranco Fini, said his antics had embarrassed the country.

But Berlusconi again defended his lifestyle and fondness for young women, telling a trade fair in Milan on Tuesday it was "better to be passionate about a beautiful girl than a gay."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39970854/ns/world_news-europe/

 

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WOw. This just proves how leadership positions always go to the best, brightest, most caring, most moral and least corrupt. This reaffirms my faith in human societies.

 

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I've got to admire his chutzpah..."photographs published by La Pais depicting naked women mingling at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's villa also include a naked former Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, Times Online reports. The photos were taken last summer while Topolanek was still the Czech PM, but he has since resigned. From Times Online:

"It is me in the photo," said Mr Topolanek, who resigned in March after he lost a confidence vote. He said that the photographs had been doctored and accused "European socialists" of orchestrating a smear campaign. "I did not know that the [European] elections were so important for the European socialists that they would do such manipulations," said Mr Topolanek.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made news again this week when photographs of naked women mingling at his villa emerged on the Spanish website La Pais, and he is now suing for the photos to be sealed (even though they're already on the Internet), Sky News reports. According to Sky News:

News of the photos emerged while Mr Berlusconi took part in a radio phone-in. He said: "I am not at all frightened. There is nothing scandalous in these pictures but this is a violation of my privacy and an scandalous aggression.

"The photographs show people having a jacuzzi by a private villa they were staying in while my guests."


Berlusconi's last scandal, prior to this one, occurred just two weeks ago when he was accused of inappropriateness with 18-year-old Noemi Letizia."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/05/berlusconi-naked-pictures_n_211787.html