I've admired Berlusconi since I was a teenager, says lover

Silvio Berlusconi’s 28-year-old girlfriend says she is now just waiting for him to agree to marry her after chasing the 76-year-old relentlessly for years.

In an interview in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, Francesca Pascale described two years of pain and jealousy as Berlusconi responded to the failure of his second marriage by throwing lavish parties for young women.