Silvio's roving eye

Silvio Berlusconi and his wife, Veronica Lario, in 2004. She publicly rebuked him this week.

Who has had more work done?




Yet again, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s wife has written a public letter rebuking her 72-year-old husband for consorting with young and chesty women who are not her. Among them is a business associate’s daughter who has posed in underwear revealing most of her bottom and whose 18th birthday party Mr. Berlusconi recently attended in Naples.

18, and a business associate's daughter? Well, one thing is sure: Silvio does not discriminate.

“This surprised me,” Veronica Lario, 52, Mr. Berlusconi’s wife, told the ANSA news agency in a communiqué released late Tuesday. “Because he never attended the 18th birthday parties of his children, even if he was invited.”

Must have been busy with affairs of state.

“As always, it’s one of those crises that will work in his favor,” said Giuliano Ferrara, the editor of Il Foglio, a center-right newspaper, who is a sometime adviser to Mr. Berlusconi.

Newspaper editor an adviser to the Premier? Si.