From The Times
May 16, 2009
Ms Letizia is not like all the others: she is at the centre of a political storm that shows no sign of receding. The storm is also threatening to rock Mr Berlusconi’s normally unshakeable political bandwagon. The unlikely friendship the Prime Minister has cultivated down the years with Noemi and her mother and father, including his appearence at her 18th birthday party, has led to his wife planning to divorce him and a dip in his normally stratospheric poll rating (...) Despite the cosy Chi photos, Noemi’s father has lived apart from his wife and daughter for more than two years. Mr Berlusconi’s gift to Noemi — a €6,000 pendant — was supposedly an impromptu gift during an impromptu detour to her party; but the photographer Pasquale Cerullo, who was there, said that security agents had checked the venue in the morning. “Everyone knew he was coming, even the cleaning ladies,” he said (...) There is Noemi’s mother, Anna Palumbo, who was an aspiring television showgirl after her marriage to Mr Letizia in 1980 at the age of 19, taking part in Break Family on a local station, Canale 21. Ms Palumbo (Italian women retain their maiden names) has refused to say how, when and where she met the man who is now the Prime Minister; on another occasion she said that she met him through her husband’s political activities (more).
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