Apparently, hypocrisy among supposedly "pro-marriage" politicians is not limited to those in the USA like thrice married Newt Gingrich or prostitute patron David Vitter. We can add Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has followed the Vatican's dictates and consistently opposed marriage or similar legal rights for gays, to the list of hypocrites. As the New York Times is reporting, Berlusconi's SECOND wife says she wants to file for divorce. It seems that Mr. "protect marriage" has been cavorting with other women. But then he met wife number two and commenced an affair was he was married to his first wife. So much for marital vows unless it's a same-sex couple that want to take them. Here are some highlights:*
ROME — Less than a week after writing an open letter that criticized her husband for cavorting with much younger women, the second wife of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says she wants to file for divorce, Italian newspapers reported Sunday.
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“I’d like to close the curtain on our married life,” Veronica Lario, 52, said in an interview with La Repubblica that was published Sunday. A secretary for Ms. Lario confirmed the report. Ms. Lario met Mr. Berlusconi, 72, in 1980, when she was a B-movie actress in Milan and he was a married, up-and-coming real-estate tycoon. They were wed in a civil ceremony in 1990 after having three children.
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She also was incensed at news reports that Mr. Berlusconi had attended the 18th birthday party in Naples of Noemi Letizia, who has posed for magazines semi-nude and has said in interviews that she calls the prime minister “daddy.”
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“That surprised me,” Ms. Lario told ANSA. “Because he never attended the 18th birthday parties of his own children, even if he was invited.” The Turin newspaper La Stampa quoted Ms. Lario as saying on Sunday that she had to begin divorce proceedings: “I was forced to take this step.”
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