World | Silvio Berlusconi Berlusconis Row Over PM's Wandering Eye Soap opera of feuding first couple grips Italy By Jason Farago Posted Apr 30, 2009 7:43 AM CDT Copied An artwork by Filippo Panseca, depicting Silvio Berlusconi with a giant pair of wings and little else, with an equally topless female minister, in Savona, Italy, Tuesday April 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Italo Banchero) Silvio Berlusconi's wife is taking her complaints of philandering and dishonesty to the press—and it's not the first time she's done so, the New York Times reports. The Italian first lady was angry that Berlusconi went to the 18th birthday party of a business associate's daughter, who has been photographed in lingerie. "This surprised me," Veronica Lario wrote, "because he never attended the 18th birthday parties of his children, even if he was invited." Lario has voiced her frustrations with her husband in the media before; in 2007, she published an open letter bashing him for flirting with women at a party and a showgirl-turned-minister. Though the most recent accusations have received wall-to-wall coverage in Italy, few expect political repercussions. One newspaper editor said Berlusconi's taste for beautiful women "is a huge part of Italian society. People identify with it." Read These Next CBS News boss pulls 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump policy. Slate examines the 'spiritual rot' of today's Vegas. Trump's cries against iffy mortgages may lead back to him. Trump's too late to claim trumpkennedycenter.org. Report an error