Berlusconi's ex-wife settles for US$132,200 a day
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December 29, 2012, Saturday
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FORMER Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to pay his estranged wife Veronica Lario 100,000 euros (US$132,200) a day as part of a divorce settlement, the daily Corriere della Sera newspaper said yesterday.
The 36 million euros a year settlement, reached after three years of negotiations, was filed with a court in Milan around Christmas.
Lawyers for Berlusconi and Lario have not commented on the deal.
The news comes shortly after Berlusconi's return to frontline politics to lead the center-right campaign ahead of an election in February.
Lario, a former actor who was married to Berlusconi for more than 22 years, asked for a divorce from the 76-year-old billionaire in 2009, accusing him of having an affair with a 17-year-old girl.
She had already publicly rebuked her husband over his relations with other women, sending an open letter to the daily La Repubblica in 2007 in which she said he owed her a public apology after injuring her dignity as a woman.
She sought a divorce two years later, saying she could "no longer stay with a man who frequents minors" after reports emerged that Berlusconi had attended the 18th birthday party of aspiring model Noemi Letizia.
Since then, there have been repeated allegations of sexual scandal, culminating in accounts last year of "bunga bunga" sex parties in his Milan home and charges of paying for sex with a juvenile prostitute, which he denies.
Berlusconi has apologized for the parties, saying he was lonely after splitting with Lario, his second wife.
But he has revealed he is now engaged to a woman almost 50 years his junior, and feeling "less alone."
The media baron said recently his engagement to 28-year-old Francesca Pascale - part of a support group called "Silvio, we miss you" - is "official."
Lario had originally asked for a monthly alimony of 3.5 million euros, while Berlusconi had responded with an offer of no more than 300,000 euros a month.
The 36 million euros a year settlement, reached after three years of negotiations, was filed with a court in Milan around Christmas.
Lawyers for Berlusconi and Lario have not commented on the deal.
The news comes shortly after Berlusconi's return to frontline politics to lead the center-right campaign ahead of an election in February.
Lario, a former actor who was married to Berlusconi for more than 22 years, asked for a divorce from the 76-year-old billionaire in 2009, accusing him of having an affair with a 17-year-old girl.
She had already publicly rebuked her husband over his relations with other women, sending an open letter to the daily La Repubblica in 2007 in which she said he owed her a public apology after injuring her dignity as a woman.
She sought a divorce two years later, saying she could "no longer stay with a man who frequents minors" after reports emerged that Berlusconi had attended the 18th birthday party of aspiring model Noemi Letizia.
Since then, there have been repeated allegations of sexual scandal, culminating in accounts last year of "bunga bunga" sex parties in his Milan home and charges of paying for sex with a juvenile prostitute, which he denies.
Berlusconi has apologized for the parties, saying he was lonely after splitting with Lario, his second wife.
But he has revealed he is now engaged to a woman almost 50 years his junior, and feeling "less alone."
The media baron said recently his engagement to 28-year-old Francesca Pascale - part of a support group called "Silvio, we miss you" - is "official."
Lario had originally asked for a monthly alimony of 3.5 million euros, while Berlusconi had responded with an offer of no more than 300,000 euros a month.
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