Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said his children feel persecuted just as Jewish families did in Nazi Germany because he is being hounded by the country’s magistrates who want to eliminate him politically.

Elisabetta Canalis says she had "a father-daughter relationship" with George Clooney.

A COMBATIVE talk show appearance by Silvio Berlusconi to reject his estranged wife’s charges of “frequenting minors” suggests the Italian leader fears political fallout from their public row, analysts said yesterday.