Thu, 11 April, 2013. Francesco Chiesa Soprani, former agent of Silvio Berlusconi's protégé Naomi Letizia, says in an interview that the former prime minister had sex with the girl when she was under-age.
As
some of you might remember, Silvio Berlusconi's second wife Veronica Lario decided to reveal to the public that his husband was “a sick
man in need of help“ because of his “uncontrollable” yearning
for women (and – at the same time - decided to start separation
proceedings) when the former prime minister of Italy attended to
young model Noemi Letizia's 18th birthday party in Naples.
Though
the story was never forgot, nobody knew exactly until what extent the
relationship between a minor girl and a elderly man she called “papi”
(when Noemi got 18, Silvio was 73) was inappropriate.
Sunday,
February 3, 2013. “Even imbeciles are able to invent new taxes”
says Silvio Berlusconi, explaining that he is an intelligent one who
will make the Swiss pay for it.
Silvio
Berlusconi had a vision: in the first meeting of the new ministers'
cabinet – where the newly elected Silvio will play the role of the
Economy and Finance Minister – there will be decided the scrapping
of the unpopular property tax called IMU, and the reimbursement of
the tax the Italians paid during 2012 (the media tycoon called it a «shock proposal», his rival Gianfranco
Fini, the chair of the house of representatives, has another idea, he replied on Twitter
that in his second cabinet meeting, Berlusconi would «decree
that everybody wins the lottery»).
Promises, promises!
How?
In a previous attempt to convince the Italians how he would abolish
the propriety tax (when the former prime
minister faced his long-term enemy Michele Santoro on his TV show) Silvio Berlusconi declared he would raise new taxes on tobaccos,
spirits and gambling.
Then
the ex-premier of Italy realised that he needs to be (even) smarter. «Even imbeciles are
able to invent news taxes», declared the billionaire to his
supporters yesterday, on a speech in Milan, then he pledged to
convince the Swiss banks to help him to tax Italian assets and activities
in Switzerland. Not only they have to pay a one off tribute of 25
billion euro (about £21.7bn or $33.9bn), but – in Silvio's mind –
they will be keeping on paying €5bn every year.
Doesn't
it sound as a tax, Silvio? Are you an imbecile?
Anyhow,
the problem isn't exactly there - someone would argue – but in the
fact that nobody ever convinced the Swiss bankers to do so!
Never
mind, thinks Silvio, they (the new government made up by the People
of Liberty party and friends) will do it, they will convince them.
And
in the meanwhile, they take – as a loan – the money from the
postal savings system (CDP).
Thursday,
10 January 2013. Silvio Berlusconi enters the lions den, where
Michele Santoro and Marco Travaglio were looking forward to devouring
the former prime minister.
Santoro and Berlusconi
Allegedly
Silvio Berlusconi kicked Michele Santoro out of Italian public TV
RAI, back in 2002, that's why the clash between the former prime
minister and the left-wing anchorman was described as the duel of the
century by many.
Silvio
Berlusconi was supposed to walk out in anger, after Michele Santoro
and his associate Marco Travaglio would have grilled him properly.
Almost
9 million Italians were glued to the video (one third of the
audience, up to 50 per cent in the heat of the discussion), as the
Santoro-team attacked on waves.
Nothing
doing, the former prime minister fended off Santoro's lunges, ignored
Luisella Costamagna remarks, and even returned fire to Marco
Travaglio, by enlisting – written on a letter he abruptly pulled
out of his pocket - ten lawsuits for defamation the journalist had
lost.
Berlusconi cleansing the chair where Travaglio sat
Attacks
regarding sex-scandals, Rubygate, and the paying of the 42
bunga-bunga army girls, the request of saying to the Italians he was
sorry... all in vane. Silvio Berlusconi answers blending wit remarks,
with shreds of statistics, smiles and provocations. And, once again,
he gets away with it, and keeps on «gaining
back who already voted for me, and perhaps convincing new voters»,
as he put it.
How
to convince the Italians that the People of Liberty party is the
right choice? Silvio Berlusconi's pièce
de résistance is the
abolition of a tax on proprieties, which yield would be – according
to the former Italian prime minister – replaced by new taxes on
tobaccos, spirits and gambling (the tax was introduced by Berlusconi
himselft, but it's the Monti's government that made it applicable to
owners of first homes).
Running
out of options, Santoro also showed a video taken almost four years
before (in April 2009), when Silvio Berlusconi had been keeping
waiting German chancellor Angela Merkel while he was talking on the
telephone (the video is available on our YouTube channel, click here> to watch it). Well, of course Silvio had an answer for that (he could have work
out quite a range of replies, in four years...), but before replying
to it – revealing he had been talking to Turkish prime minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about a crucial topic of the summit - he said
«Santoro, you're digging your own
grave.».
“I'm
having fun” would later declare smiling the former prime minister.
Santoro – quite evidently – was not having fun, was visibly annoyed and refuse to shake hands with Silvio, at a certain stage. At least until
Silvio left and he went on giggling with his cartoonist friend,
Vauro Senesi, who showed the sketches he had been drawing during the programme, in what Santoro
called «my communist moments.».
While
enjoying his communists moments, Santoro might be an unaware
supporter for Silvio, whose deficit had been reducing constantly,
since the Italian politician started to show off on TV, without
finding any credible opposition. So far.
Saturday, April 2 2011. The aftermath of Milan's football derby. Berlusconi jokes about his bad memory. And women, of course.
On the night of April 2 AC Milan – Berlusconi's football team – beat its rival Inter Milan 3-0. AC Milan is leading the table, Inter is trailing. After this victory the probabilities that AC Milan will win the Italian Championship rise considerably. Therefore the Italian Silvio is in really high spirits, when the journalists gets to interview him.
Berlusconi loves to tell jokes
One of the reporters asks the Prime Minister about AC Milan's coach: “Does he resemble [former AC Milan coach] Capello or any of the great trainers of the past?”. AC Milan President Silvio Berlusconi replies “I don't know. I'm old. My memory is getting bad”. And then he goes on “This morning I was chasing my secretary, because I wanted to lay her on my desk, and she said to me «Mr President, we did it already, two hours ago». And I said to her «You see, the problem is my memory». If you write about this, you are a bunch of...”. He does not end the sentence, but everybody (reporters from sports shows on channels the media tycoon owns) understands that this time they are requested to keep the funny story for ourselves.
Actually the journalists, who usually are craving for spicy jokes of Berlusconi, almost managed to censore this one. One of them, a woman says to Berlusconi: “Cut! This one not, this one has to be cut” and, in the end “No, no! Not this one! Don't worry, President”.
And it almost worked, until April 21, when somehow the joke appeared in TV, on the Michele Santoro's AnnoZero, not exactly Berlusconi's favourite. And the "Fatto Quotidiano" (The Daily Fact, a Internet magazine) loaded the video onto YouTube. Looks like somebody wanted to make sure most of Italian population can laugh about the amusing anecdote.
