Berlusconi and the cockscomb of the Pharaoh

Thursday, December 27, 2012. AC Milan footballer Stephan El Shaarawy refuses to cut his hair, notwithstanding the fact that Silvio Berlusconi – the team's owner – allegedly asked him to do so.

Stephan "The Pharaoh" El Shaarawy's hairstyle

Nicknamed Il Faraone (The Pharaoh), Stephan El Shaarawy is an Italian footballer of Egyptian descent playing for AC Milan, known for the ability of scoring goals, as well as for his weird hairstyle, which – apparently – is annoying the club's owner and current president, Silvio Berlusconi.

All this according to the site Al Arabiya News, which – in turn – quoted a local Italian newspaper as source of the news.

El Sharaawy – who is currently Italy top of the league Serie A's best scorer, with 14 goals – is AC Milan's “new Ibra”, according to Barbara Berlusconi, daughter of the team owner, member of the club's Board of directors and girlfriend of the fallen-from-grace striker Pato, meaning that the 22-year-old striker is as talented as the Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimović is, who was sold by AC Milan to the French PSG last year.

Other stories emerged, as the former prime minister already ask defender Philippe Mexès and midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng to change their "disturbing" hairstyles. To some extent, they agreed to lower their cockscomb, whilst the Italo-Egyptian forward apparently dug in his heels.

Silvio "The Knight" Berlusconi hairstyle

The Italian newspaper (La Provincia di Varese) cited an hairdresser (Sebastian Muscillo) who used to work for AC Milan as well as Turin's Juventus FC, saying that the former Italian prime minister tried to force El Shaarawy to cut his hair.

The request of Silvio Berlusconi was first addressed to the young talent (whose father is Egyptian, while his mother is Italian) when he first signed the contract with AC Milan, as the president told him not to get rid of the “exotic” hairdo as soon as possible.

Silvio Berlusconi seems to be quite allergic to hairdos and combing stuff, for some reasons...

Silvio Berlusconi and the two fiancées

Saturday, December 22, 2012. Katarina Knezevic gives an interview to an Italian daily newspaper saying that she will become the wife of Silvio Berlusconi, not Francesca Pascale.

Katarina Knezevic, Montenegrin model and alleged "fidanzata" of Silvio

The story with Francesca Pascale is “a heap of crap” according to 22-year-old Katarina Knezevic, the Montenegrin model who swears she is the real Silvio Berlusconi's fiancée, or “fidanzata” as they say in Italian.

Francesca is just an electoral stunt, “the result of an agreement” – according to the Balkan woman, who was a contestant on Miss Montenegro pageant – she will never be the wife of Silvio Berlusconi. “I am still in love with him” she added, in her interview to the leftist daily newspaper “Il Fatto Quotidiano” (“The Daily Fact”), “for a man like him I could kill and I'd be ready to die”.

Silvio with official fiancée, Francesca

Katarina is “a very dangerous crazy person”, "gypsy" a "runaway from home", used to say to each other over the phone the bunga-bunga princesses, Nicole Minetti, Barbara Faggioli, Imane Fadil (actually on 9 August 2012 was Moroccan Imane who spontaneously told judge Ilda Boccassini that the Montenegrin beauty was Berlusconi's real girlfriend).

Emilio Fede also told about a dramatic scene at the home of Italy's former prime minister, when Katarina “made a nasty scene of jealousy” about the presence of other women, and jumped from the stairs of the villa, got hurt, and “Silvio Berlusconi had to retire, with Katarina, in order to console her.

Actually there are no public photos of Berlusconi with Katarina Knezevic.

Silvio's infatuation of for the young woman was testified also by Nicole Minetti and Clotilde Strada on a famous phone call, intercepted during the sex-scandal Rubygate investigations (the video is on our YouTube Channel).

But the story of a long-lasting engagement was revealed by Silvio Berlusconi only recently (during Canale 5's Domenica Live TV show, led by Barbara D'Urso), after rumours assigned the role to Roberta Bonasia, Nicole Minetti, Evelina Manna and other girls and women.

Only time will tell the truth.

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Silvio Berlusconi and the socks of the judges

Thursday, December 20, 2012. Silvio Berlusconi-s owned gossip magazine attempts to delegitimize a magistrate looking into sex-scandal trial by denigrate her socks. It's not the first time they resort to this extreme measure, Italian judges should pay more attention to the colour of their socks, experts say.

Ilda Boccassini doing work

The prosecutor in charge of the Rubygate – a case in which Silvio Berlusconi is indicted for having given money to under-age Karima el Mahroug (aka Ruby the Heart Stealer) – has appeared on a photo shoot on Berlusconi's Mondadori-owned “Chi” weekly magazine, a gossip newspaper.

Judge Ilda Boccassini is an old enemy of Berlusconi's, since she took over the place of Antonio Di Pietro, back in 1994, in the “Mani pulite” (“Clean hands”) investigation.

Silvio and Ilda met up in several occasions, since.

Ilda Boccassini doing shopping

The gossip weekly portrays the judge as she goes shopping in the centre of Milan, adding captions in order to deride the magistrate. A list of her cloths is published, where “multi-coloured striped wool socks”, costing 21 euro, are exhibited and undrlined in order – somehow – to belittle the judge. Another photo shows Ilda Boccassini dropping the butt of a cigarette to the ground. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and Rai3 news service accused the media outlet of "hounding" the judge.

A similar technique was used by Canale5 broadcaster staff in 2009, when they hounded judge Raimondo Mesiano, who ordered to Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest to pay 750 million euro (£612m) to Carlo De Benedetti's – arch-enemy of The Knight – CIR, as a compensation in the frame of the Lodo Mondadori, a battle between the two Italian entrepreneurs following the acquisition of publisher Arnoldo Mondadori Editore by Fininvest. Mr Mesiano was followed by the broadcaster's men, his turquoise-coloured socks were exposed as a major offence.

Ruby rebuilding her virginity with Chi's Alfonso Signorini

By the way, the weekly magazine we started this post with is owned by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA (company chaired by Silvio's daughter, Maria Elvira Berlusconi, commonly known as Marina Berlusconi). The paper is also known for having published topless photos of Kate Middleton earlier this year, and a picture of prnicess Diana, taken as she was dying, after a car accident on 31 August 1997. The Director of “Chi”, Alfonso Signorini, was in charge also when Mediaset (on Canale 5's Kalispéra TV show) tried to prove that Ruby the Heart Stealer was – in reality – a kind of vocational nun, not a prostitute.

The Rubygate trial is going to continue on 4 February, after the last session – in which key witness and name giver for the investigation Karima el Mahroug (aka Ruby the Heart Stealer) was missing – was adjourned.

Obviously Silvio thinks that the best defence is a good offence.

Socks on the right...