Berlusconi's divorce from second wife Veronica Lario was finalized (but the money issue is still to be settled)

Tuesday, 18 February 2014. A court in northern Italy's town of Monza finalized the divorce between Silvio Berlusconi and his second wife Veronica Lario (but the battle about the money to be paid in alimony is still to be fought).

A Silvio Berlusconi overwhelmed by emotions...

Here's how it started: Veronica Lario (who's real name is Miriam Raffaella Bartolini), asked for divorce, saying that his husband is a sick man having affairs with under-age girls (see photo below). Just for the record, the Lario woman was a former lover of Silvio Berlusconi when he was still married to his first wife Carla Elvira Lucia Dall'Oglio.

The "non-consensual separation" took off after a while, it was filed on 25 December 2012: 22 years and 10 days after they wedding. The wedlock brought three children: Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi (even though, actually, Barbara Berlusconi was born in 1984, when her father was still married to his first wife).


Apart from the separation, the news about the minor girls inspired a group of judges in Milan, sparkled an investigation, than a trial, and finally led to a conviction to a 7-year term in prison for the entrepreneur turned into politician (even though the teenager female Veronica was talking about - Noemi Letizia - was different from Ruby the Heartstealer, the ninor whose relationship with Mr Berlusconi nailed the media tycoon), and some of his associates involved in the so called bunga-bunga parties at Berlusconi's villa in Arcore. Berlusconi might not have taken it particularly well.

Karima aka Ruby (left) and Noemi (right), two under-age girls
who took Silvio Berlusconi into the eye of the storm

Anyhow the biggest discussion, of course, was about the money. And the villas owned by the billionaire, specially the gorgeous Villa Belvedere in Macherio, near Milan, where the woman raised her children. Initially Veronica was granted a 3m euro yearly co-respondent (a deal the included the renounce to the above mentioned manor by the wife), by a bunch of "feminist and communist female judges" (according to Silvio), but last October a court gave Berlusconi a 50% discount, and set the alimony to a €1.4m (for those who are not familiar with the euros,  €3m is about £2.5m or $4.1m, whilst €1.4m is the equivalent of £1.15m or $1.9m).

Most probably it will take a while until they reach an agreement on that, there are tow cases filed at the Family affairs department of Milan's Court of Appeals, ready to hit the headlines.

In the meanwhile Silvio Berlusconi might think of getting a third wife, to enlarge and rejuvenate the family, his current girlfriend is a 28-year-old girl from Naples, Francesca Pascale, who has been yearning to wed the 77-year-old leader of Forza Italia since she was a teenager (why on earth all these Italian adolescents want to mingle with old farts?).