Berlusconi blasts ‘feminist’ judges over €200,000-a-day divorce settlement

Milan court officials have defended the impartiality of their judges after ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi blamed “feminist, communist” magistrates for a €200,000-a-day divorce settlement.

Berlusconi, who has a net worth of €4.5 billion, made the accusation in an interview with the La7 television network and said he was appealing the settlement with his second ex-wife, Veronica Lario.

But in a joint statement yesterday carried by the ANSA news agency, the president of the Milan tribunal and the head of the appeals court “strongly rejected any insinuation of impartiality” of the tribunal’s judges, whom they described as “diligent professionals”.