It’s a big year for Bruce Gordon of WIN Corporation. His magic touch helped WIN survive the GFC intact, but his business associations with Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi may see him embroiled in legal issues. How will the year pan out?
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Berlusconi’s Ministry of Truth
Silvio Berlusconi’s ongoing war against newspapers saying nasty things about him continues, with the Italian PM assembling a crack team of journos and PR hacks to monitor the world’s media for mean comments and “bombard those newsrooms with truthful and positive news.”
Berlusconi may yet get his day in court
Silvio Berlusconi is not Italy’s head of state — just its head of government. If the country’s minister is a crook, the courts need to be given the opportunity to say so.
Berlusconi gets busted: Italy’s love affair ends
PM Silvio Berlusconi will now face prosecution against charges of fraud, corruption, tax evasion and bribery, with an Italian court stripping him of immunity. Italians can forgive the perma-tan and philandering but not this, says Richard Owen.
Politainment: some sexy light relief from our drab lives
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s stories of sex, scandal and beautiful women make him a more entertaining, and popular, politician than most. Is Berlusconi’s burlesque the political future?
Berlusconi sues the European media
Irreverent Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal action against a series of media outlets across Europe for their coverage of his private life, which his lawyer describes as an “intolerable campaign” of slander.
Silvio and scandal: a Crikey timeline
Italian billionaire media tycoon and three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is no stranger to gaffes and sex scandals. We take a look at some of the Latin lothario’s greatest hits.
Crikey Says: In bed with Vladimir Putin
Prostitutes, showgirls and now Putins’s four poster — Italian politics is another world.
Silvio Berlusconi, a man’s man
With sex tapes revealed involving Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, an escort and “Putin’s bed”, ire has risen about his behaviour. But, while I wouldn’t vote for him, says Max Davidson, I wouldn’t mind being him.
VIDEO: The G8 jamboree
Berlusconi in a golf cart, Malia Obama’s t-shirt… the Guardian looks at the real news from the G8 conference.
Guy Rundle: A farce in an earthquake zone, run by a lunatic
With a few days to go before the G8 summit started it was clear that the thing was turning into as much of a debacle as anything associated with Berlusconi.
Crikey Says: Overheard: Silvio, Kevin and Amanda
Crikey has secured an advance transcript of this Thursday’s meeting in Rome between Prime Ministers Berlusconi and Rudd and Australia’s Ambassador to Italy, the Hon Amanda Vanstone.
Teflon Silvio rises again
Scandals with myriad women notwithstanding, Italian PM Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition had convincing wins in elections across the country. But he isn’t off the hook just yet.
Italian proescuters crash Berlusconi’s parties
Italian prosecutors are investigating whether prostitutes were hired for parties held by Silvio Berlusconi, and will interview 30 young women who have been partying with the Italian PM.
Tips and rumours: Berlusconi’s lady friends
A saucy edition of Tips and Rumours…
Wolff: Why I like Silvio Berlusconi
Sure Berlusconi is corrupt and ridiculous — but that’s why he’s great, says Michael Wolff: He’s a head-of-state in the most fantastic sense.
How Silvio Berlusconi denigrates politics
The ageing Lothario may find it amusing, or even perhaps daring, to act the playboy, boasting of his conquests and humiliating his wife. But politicians must have standards, says The Times editorial.
Can a teenage girl topple Berlusconi?
Silvio Berlusconi’s relationship with 18-year-old Noemi Letizia has already seen his wife file for divorce. Could it also cost him his job?
Italian judges: lawyer guilty of lying to protect Berlusconi
Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he will respond to an Italian judicial panel’s determination that a British lawyer lied in court to protect him in exchange for $600,000. The three-judge panel released a 400-page document laying out its reasons for finding British lawyer David Mills guilty of corruption.
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Berlusconi’s girlfriend calls him “Papi” — because he is!
A rumour circulating in Italy has it that the 18-year-old involved in the break-up of Berlusconi’s marriage calls him “Papi” or “Daddy” — because he really is her father.
Ladies’ man Berlusconi scolded by Catholic Church
The Italian Prime Minister’s “exuberance and a weakness for young, flowing actresses” is “worrying”, says the official Catholic newsletter, after his wife announced she was fed up and divorcing him.
Silvio’s risky game with his signorinas
In a public letter gleefully received by Italy’s newspapers, Silvio Berlusconi’s wife him of a “lack of discretion in his exercise of power which offends the credibility of all women”. And with good reason.
Media briefs: Berlusconi vs Murdoch… Rip the Brits apart 2012 advert…
Berlusconi vs Murdoch… Rip the Brits apart 2012 advert… Pepsi launches and apologises for suicide ads… Bill O’Reilly is a slug…
Berlusconi: Return of the Cavalier
Overnight Italians confirmed that the era of close elections is over, decisively returning Berlusconi to power, writes Charles Richardson.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.
