The red-faced fall of the final Roman emperor

When historians of the future dig beneath the rubble of 21st-century Italy, they are likely to view Silvio Berlusconi as the last Roman emperor.

For two decades the billionaire has dominated his nation’s political life, moving from plutocrat to clown prince at the drop of a G-string.

Sporting some dodgy plastic surgery and an eye job or two, he is never far from his bevy of busty beauties and his notorious “bunga bunga” parties. Thanks to implants, the former nightclub singer has more hair now than when he entered politics in the early 1990s.