Silvio Berlusconi and his estranged wife have met for the first time in nine months as their lawyers reportedly exchanged details of alleged infidelities during bitter divorce talks. The 73-year-old Italian prime minister and Veronica Lario, 53, spent 20 minutes in the same room during a five-hour meeting between their lawyers. The infidelity claims formed part of the talks between their representatives, the Italian media reported on Sunday. Miss Lario is demanding €3.5 million (£3 million) a month in maintenance from her husband of 19 years, claiming that she could no longer be with a man who "associates with minors", a reference to her husband's friendship with a teenage model whose 18th birthday party he attended last year.
The 73-year-old Italian prime minister and Veronica Lario, 53, spent 20 minutes in the same room during a five-hour meeting between their lawyers. The infidelity claims formed part of the talks between their representatives, the Italian media reported on Sunday.
Miss Lario is demanding €3.5 million (£3 million) a month in maintenance from her husband of 19 years, claiming that she could no longer be with a man who "associates with minors", a reference to her husband's friendship with a teenage model whose 18th birthday party he attended last year.
For today's episode in the Clearstream show, here is Carla Bruni being indignant. In the video below, the chanteuse-supermodel reacts to a question about the duel between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin. The interviewer caught her off-guard on Saturday by asking about the affair. She is stunned, she says, by Villepin's charge that the President had ordered the prosecutors to appeal against his acquittal. She is amazed that so many people are questioning the independence of the French justice system. "It's a criminal trial, you understand, it's about a criminal trial, not politics,"she says with a hiss. When RTL radio went to a commercial, the smile switched off and she threatened to walk out of the studio, according to journalists there. She had been expecting only soft questions on her work for people with Aids. Mrs Sarkozy must be one of a small minority or she takes her adopted compatriots for fools. Few believe the official line that Jean-Claude Marin, the chief prosecutor, did not receive word from the Elysée Palace after Villepin's acquittal on Thursday. The prosecution, mainly initiated by Sarkozy when he was a presidential candidate, was eminently political.
For today's episode in the Clearstream show, here is Carla Bruni being indignant. In the video below, the chanteuse-supermodel reacts to a question about the duel between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin. The interviewer caught her off-guard on Saturday by asking about the affair.
She is stunned, she says, by Villepin's charge that the President had ordered the prosecutors to appeal against his acquittal. She is amazed that so many people are questioning the independence of the French justice system. "It's a criminal trial, you understand, it's about a criminal trial, not politics,"she says with a hiss. When RTL radio went to a commercial, the smile switched off and she threatened to walk out of the studio, according to journalists there. She had been expecting only soft questions on her work for people with Aids.
Mrs Sarkozy must be one of a small minority or she takes her adopted compatriots for fools. Few believe the official line that Jean-Claude Marin, the chief prosecutor, did not receive word from the Elysée Palace after Villepin's acquittal on Thursday. The prosecution, mainly initiated by Sarkozy when he was a presidential candidate, was eminently political.
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