Berlusconi Scandal

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  Former Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi And His Many Scandals

  Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was dogged throughout his life by legal woes and scandal, which became as much a part of his legend as his work in politics, media and sport.

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  Vatileaks Scandal Broadens, Embroils Berlusconi Brothers

  A Vatican leaks scandal that was already rich in claims of sex, scheming and spying has widened to embroil Silvio Berlusconi, former PM of the country, and add allegations of blackmail and computer hacking to the mix.

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  Migration Crisis and Corruption Takes Toll on Italy's Matteo Renzi

  Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi's popularity and public trust in his centre-left party have been damaged by corruption scandals and the immigration crisis, a new poll showed today.

• Italy: Former PM Silvio Berlusconi's divorce paves way for possible third marriage

  Italy's billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is officially divorced, paving the way for a possible future marriage with a woman almost 50 years his junior, the Italian media reported on Wednesday.

• Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces new investigation in scandal

  Milan prosecutors have opened a new investigation against Silvio Berlusconi over accusations he corrupted witnesses in a trial in which he was convicted of paying for sex with a minor.

• Silvio Berlusconi accused of bribing witnesses in trial

  An Italian court accused former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday of bribing witnesses to give false testimony in a trial.

• Former Italy premier Silvio Berlusconi not guilty in sex case, says defence lawyer

  Silvio Berlusconi's defense says the former premier was "convinced" that a Moroccan teen at the center of a sex scandal was related to the former Egyptian president.

• Dancer says showgirls dressed as Obama, nuns at Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' party

  The Moroccan woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi testified Friday in court for the first time, describing how a young woman attending one of Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties dressed up like a nun, danced provocatively and stripped down to her underwear for the premier.

• Italy court sentences former PM Silvio Berlusconi to one year jail in wiretap trial

  An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to a one-year jail term for making public the taped contents of a confidential phone call in a case related to a 2005 banking scandal.

• Italy's showman Berlusconi pulls off another surprise

  Billionaire showman Silvio Berlusconi has again pulled off an astonishing fight-back from scandal and humiliation, coming within a whisker of success in Italy's election.

• VVIP chopper scandal: Bribes necessary to do global business, says former Italian PM

  Defending Finmeccanica SpA's jailed ex-chief executive officer Giuseppe Orsi, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said bribes are a necessary part of doing business globally.

• Key witness in Berlusconi sex trial, set to testify on Monday

  The nightclub dancer who is the main witness in the sex trial of Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will testify at a hearing in Milan on Monday, her lawyer said on Saturday.

• Expenses scandal engulfs Silvio Berlusconi's rudderless party

  The party of power less than a year ago, Italy's People of Freedom founded by Silvio Berlusconi is being convulsed by a series of scandals including the latest over lavish spending by its elected officials.

• Berlusconi paid mafia protection money, Italian court says

  Silvio Berlusconi paid the Sicilian mafia "conspicuous sums" of protection money in the 1970s, Italy's highest appeal court said in a ruling, published in part by Italian media today.

• Wiretapped, Ruby says Berlusconi told her to lie

  The Morocco born nightclub dancer at the centre of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial told friends he was ready to pay millions for her silence, according to wiretaps published on Monday.