Silvio Berlusconi fury at revelations about model’s properties

In a furious outburst, Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, has accused his country’s press of “disgraceful behaviour” for revealing that Noemi Letizia, the aspiring teenage model at the centre of his divorce row, owns four properties in Naples. Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s main financial paper, said that the public land registry showed that the Letizia family flat in the Naples suburb of Portici had been in the name of Ms Letizia, now 18, since 2003. Two other Naples flats were also in her name, one since 1995 and the other since 2005, as was a small family shop in the suburb of Secondigliano since 2002. The paper noted that it was common for people to register property in the name of their children, that none of the properties was luxurious and that her parents, Benedetto Letizia and Anna Palumbo, had reserved the right to live in and use all of them.

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