The "angelic face" that's embarrassing Berlusconi...

Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi faced new questions yesterday about his relationship with Noemi Letizia, 18, after claims that he flew the aspiring model to his Sardinian villa for New Year's Eve after seeing her modelling portfolio.

Berlusconi has previously said that he knows Letizia through her parents, who he has described as old friends.

But Letizia's former boyfriend, Gino Flaminio, 22, told La Repubblica newspaper yesterday that "Noemi's parents have nothing to do with this, the link was just with her". Letizia's father challenged his version of events as "gravely defamatory, because it attributes to Noemi things that have never been done, said or thought," and said he would take legal action. More...

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