Silvio’s lavish lifestyle costs €34m

FROM jewels and antiques to loans for young starlets, Italy’s billionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi spent €34 million in 2010.

The 74-year old premier splashed out €120,000 on ties and another €65,000 on jewels, according to details from a bank account examined during a probe into his alleged relations with an underage prostitute.

The mogul also spent €675,000 on a castle he rents in northern Italy and €900,000 on gas and electricity bills at his Caribbean home in tax haven Antigua, as well as €650,000 at antiques shops and art galleries.

As the investigation unfolded into Ruby the Heart Stealer, the exotic young pole dancer at the heart of a sex scandal set to land Berlusconi in the dock in April, a host of would-be showgirls claimed he had showered them with gifts.

According to details of the account published by Corriere della Sera, the romancing prime minister gave €562,000 to 14 young women last year, as well as €40,000 as a wedding gift to one of his secretaries.

The mother of Noemi Letizia — the teenage model whose rumoured ties with Berlusconi caused his wife to file for divorce — received €20,000.

Letizia has defended Berlusconi and says she used to call him “Papi”

Among the lucky recipients of his largesse was a disc jockey paid €100,000, and Angela Sozio, a former Big Brother contestant was allegedly paid the same.

Berlusconi’s lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said the publication of details of the account was “a clear violation of privacy”.