Berlusconi fury over naked photos

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has reacted angrily to the publication in Spain of photographs showing topless women and a naked man at his villa.

He has threatened to sue Spain's El Pais newspaper, calling the photos an invasion of privacy.

The photos - banned in Italy on privacy grounds - were taken from outside Mr Berlusconi's villa in Sardinia during a party for a Czech delegation.

He also faces a probe for using state aircraft to fly guests to Sardinia.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8084694.stm

[WillParkinson]

1. GASP!

"But the third picture is the most stark, showing a fully naked man leaning over the edge of a swimming pool."

The horror.

[tularetom]

2. Naked photos of Berlusconi? I think I'll pass

:puke:

[MADem]

4. I don't think the nekkid guy was Silvio!

Gee, he's a crook...what a shock!!!

Photographs of a naked man and semi-naked young women at Silvio Berlusconi's Villa Certosa in Sardinia were published today by Spain's El País newspaper, which says they are examples of the pictures authorities have stopped the Italian press from running.


The photos show topless girls in skimpy swimming suits lounging around the grounds of the villa, while in one, a naked man stands by a swimming pool. The pictures were taken by Antonello Zappadu, an Italian photographer who snapped events at the Italian prime minister's private villa on the Esmeralda Coast, according to El País.


El País said that the photographer had decided to pixellate out the faces of those in the photographs to protect their identities. Zappadu told El País that "virtually every weekend" Italian air force flights brought Berlusconi's friends, dancers and television hostesses to the 60-hectare weekend retreat.


Zappadu had earlier tried to sell the photographs to Berlusconi's Panorama magazine for 1.5m euros. On Saturday, after an application by Berlusconi's lawyers that his privacy was being invaded, prosecutors ordered the seizure of about 300 pictures taken in Sardinia.

Yesterday, Berlusconi admitted he was a suspect in an inquiry into the alleged misuse of public funds to fly entertainers to his villa on official aircraft. The inquiry is the direct result of a controversy surrounding the 72-year-old media tycoon's still unexplained relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model and actress, Noemi Letizia.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/silvio-berlusconi-naked-villa-el-pais


http://photogallery.tiscali.it/notizie/slide.php?idg=16645&id=219505&page=1

[zazen]

8. He's 72 and he's "dating" an 18-year-old? Some days patriarchy makes me want to puke.

What a pig.

[MADem]

9. His wife has been ripping him a new one in the press, too, over that--and getting support for it.

She's calling him everything short of "child molester."

That's not "patriarchy"--that's "Old Age Crazy." And the young girl he is seeing is a sleazy little attention-seeker who is too young and dumb to realize that her foray with Silvio will forever brand her as an unserious little skank.

I knew Silvio was starting to lose it when he went for the hair transplant several years back. He's a vain old popinjay, he is!

[havocmom]

22. Photos back up her story and show him up as the liar

That's prolly why he is pissed about the photos being published. Hard to write the wife off as a shrew when there is graphic evidence she has legitimate complaints.

[xchrom]

3. i'm furious to think berlusconi was flaunting his naked self

someplace where someone could take a picture of him.

:mad:

[MADem]

7. Here's the salacious photo in question--it IS "NSFW" FWIW

So don't click if you don't want to see frank-n-beans:

http://www.pupia.tv/notizie/0005660.html

Scroll all the way down -- it is the last picture at the bottom.

The caption says that the individuals are GUESTS, which would imply that the fellow waving his flag isn't Silvio:

The Censured Images of Berlusconi
Photographs published exclusively in EL PAIS
Two Guests of the Il Calaviere farm

[xchrom]

11. ...

:rofl:

oh wait

:mad:

[ellenfl]

12. that ain't gravity affecting that frank! whoever it is, he's obviously

enjoying himself.

berlusconi's just pissed because he does not control the spanish media like he controls italy's. ownership has its privileges.

ellen fl

[alfredo]

13. His shortcomings are on full display.

[ellenfl]

18. looks like 6 inches to me! eom

[alfredo]

19. He's only four feet tall.

[MADem]

24. It looks as much like the bony finger of an angry nun as anything, I suppose! nt

[MADem]

25. Someone went back and "blurred" the business end of the pic.

But hey, here's the link to the original source. Silvio insists it's all very "innocent," now!

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Berlusconi/califica/inocentes/fotos/fiestas/publicadas/PAIS/elpepuint/20090605elpepuint_14/Tes

The pics are on the right, and the "salacious" one is the third one!

[Sultana]

5. Sleazeball!

My bf/fwmtb thinks very highly of him. :puke:

[predfan]

6. I wish I had a quarter for every time I was photographed around the pool at Silvio Berlusconi's vill...

I'd be a wealthy man today.

[Dappleganger]

10. I read this first as 'Berlusconi furry'...

*gack*

[alfredo]

14. A furry is a completely different sex game.

[WinkyDink]

15. Some of us remember the Profumo Scandal. I wonder if Berlusconi does.

[mix]

16. the emperor is a freak

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_461ib8EUVaA/Se9nSW7X8EI/AAAAAAAAAfw/2m9LLz9NHVo/s320/silvio+berlusconi+pintura.jpg

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[Octafish]

26. Shows another side of the little dictator.

Thanks, Judi Lynn!

Just when I thought there's nothing like a little less to like about the fascist, that pops, eh, down.

LMAO!

[izquierdista]

20. Naked Czechs?

That's understandable. They aren't shy when they finally find a sunny beach. :rofl:

[DavidDvorkin]

21. So they bounce a lot?

[Blue_Tires]

23. of course he's more angry over the nekkid photos than the

corruption probes...