Berlusconi's wife to divorce him

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that she will file for divorce.

Veronica Lario was quoted as saying she acted after reading reports of her husband attending the 18th birthday party of a woman in Naples.

She reportedly said she could not be with a man who "consorted with minors".

The 72-year-old billionaire prime minister has not commented on the divorce reports. The couple have three children from their 19-year marriage.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8031520.stm

[Deja Q]

1. I hope this 18 year old isn't his granddaughter... then again, if she was,

Jerry Springer could have a sweeps week special. 5 days of Berlusconi Boner. Do they still have that strappin' Steve bodyguard, or does he do his own filth show now too?

:hide:

[OnyxCollie]

16. The Steve Wilkos Show.

Check your local listings.

[annabanana]

2. Berlusconi is a pig. Even on the mistress-tolerant

European continent, the mistress MUST be "of age".

[Captain Hilts]

3. It's just gross. nt

[JI7]

4. i did a google search and there is a naked picture of Berlusconi

http://notiznnow.blogspot.com/2008/11/berlusconi-will-liebeslieder-cd.html

[tomm2thumbs]

8. 'what's in the bag sir?'

'It's poopies.'

[JI7]

5. his wife is pretty

he isn't

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/02/01/svBERLUSCONI_wideweb__470x343,0.jpg

[9119495]

6. She looks like she did not have a problem with him

"consorting with minors" 19 years ago. She looks quite a bit younger. He's a dick.

[JI7]

7. she is 20 years younger than he is

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. She was 24 when they met

She was born Raffaela Miriam Bartolini in 1956 - Veronica Lario is a stage name - and grew up in Bologna. Her father, who had been a low-ranking civil servant, died when she was a child; her mother worked at the local Standa supermarket, a chain that was later briefly owned by Berlusconi. She began acting at university. Her first film role was in a movie called Unsane, in which her character was disembowelled and beheaded; she subsequently worked for the director Dario Argento, in low-budget horror movies such as Tenebrae (1982). She did stage work too: Berlusconi first noticed her in 1980, in The Magnificent Cuckold, which was playing at his Teatro Manzoni in Milan, and required her to appear topless. She was 20 years younger than him, and he was married at the time, with two children, but he headed directly backstage and introduced himself. "He made me a lot of compliments," she has said about their first conversation. "He said I was 'brava'. I believed him and have never stopped believing him."

Their first child was born while he was still with his first wife; for six years he supported two families. They had three children by the time they were married themselves, on 15 December, 1990. Lario has never made any attempt to fashion a public role for herself. She seldom accompanies her husband on foreign tours (though when she does she wears, as one commentator put it, "eye-popping outfits outshine every other political wife in sight"). "We are as different as night and day," she admitted in an authorised biography published two years ago. And yet, somehow - some suggest because they share similarly humble backgrounds - they have stayed together.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/veronica-lario-silvio-berlusconi-marriage

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. What does around, comes around. The wife got with him when he was married to someone else, now

she's surprised he's a cheater?

[Dappleganger]

9. What, she woke up just now and discovered he's an ass? nt

[WestSeattle2]

12. The dude does not have a firm grasp on

reality and is a world-class narcissist. Very, very odd guy to have in charge of the country.

Wait, well we had Bush/Cheney, guess we can't laugh too hard......:rofl:

[Ozymanithrax]

13. This thread puts this story in an interesting light.

Berlusconi says he world's most popular leader

But this is Europe and January December romances are not frowned upon with billionaire politicians. He is not so different from Gingrich.

[LeftishBrit]

14. Surprised she didn't divorce him long ago

The age of consent in Italy is 14, so he has not consorted with minors in the legal sense. However, I am not surprised that the wife has got fed up with his philandering and generally sexist attitudes.

He is a nasty man and unattractive in every sense - it must be his money and power that are aphrodisiacs to younger women.

[TankLV]

15. She probably turned on the light for the first time when they had sex and NOTICED how UGLY he was!

such a waste of too many years...

Beauty can be just skin deep, but UGLY goes all the way thru...

[OnyxCollie]

17. HA! HA!

Berlusconi's an asshole.

As an act of self-flagellation, I turned on the O'Reilly Factor last Friday. The news crawl said that Berlusconi's approval rate was just shy of Obama's.

He owns nearly all the media in Italy and he still can't beat Obama? HA! HA!

[No Elephants]

18. The wives of philanderers used to be able to look forward to a relatively peaceful old age. Then,

someone invented Viagra.