Noemi Letizia: Silvio Berlusconi's Relationship with 18-year Old

by Tina Kells | May 25, 2009 at 02:17 pm

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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is facing further scandal relating to his divorce from with Veronica Lario. Berlusconi's soon to be ex has asserted that her husband was involved in an affair with Noemi Letizia, now 18, for at least a year.

In court documents attorney's for Veronica Lario cited Silvio Berlusconi's attendance at Noemi Letizia's 18th birthday as suspicious. This prompted Italian media to look more closely at the alleged relationship between the 72-year old premier and 18-year old Noemi.

Berlusconi claims that his relationship with Noemi Letizia is nothing sinister and that he has a close political association with her father Benedetto Elio Letizia.

On May 24, 2009 Italian paper Repubblica published an interview with Noemi Letizia's ex-boyfriend Gino Flaminio in which he confirmed inappropriate interactions between the Berlusconi and Noemi.

The premier has said he knows Letizia's father through decades-old Socialist Party circles and that he attended the birthday party because he happened to be in Naples that day.

Opposition demands for clarification heated up Sunday after the left-leaning newspaper La Repubblica published an interview with Letizia's ex-boyfriend, Gino Flaminio.

Repubblica quoted Flaminio as saying Berlusconi had invited Letizia and several other young women to his Sardinian villa for a week over New Year's, and described phone calls he listened in on between Berlusconi and Letizia in which he said the premier asked her about her schooling, her interests and what her parents do.

Berlusconi told CNN there was nothing "negative" about the relationship.