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AS G8 leaders prepare to gather in the earthquakeravaged city of L'Aquila, one of them will be hoping the media focus is fixed firmly on the weighty summit agenda of recession and climate change, well away from the ups and downs of his scandal-ridden private life.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's idiosyncratic 72-year-old Prime Minister, has faced weeks of lurid allegations, including a prostitute's tale of a night spent at his Roman villa and innuendo about the nature of his relationship with a teenage girl.See the full content of this document
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Berlusconi in Fear of More Lurid Tremors During Summit G8 Preview
More compromising photographs have been threatened, supposedly to be released tomorrow "for maximum impact".
In a populist gesture, the Italian leader moved the summit venue away from Sardinia - where the goings...See the full content of this document
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