Berlusconi punished publicly for 'flirtations'

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi’s wife aired her dirty laundry for the whole country to see when she complained about her husband in a newspaper.

Veronica Lario, the usually private wife of Berlusconi, apparently had had enough of his flirtations with other women, and she chose to make her anger public yesterday by writing an open letter to La Repubblica, a newspaper run by his political opponents, and saying his behaviour had damaged “my dignity”.