Berlusconi blasts "feminist, communist" judges over $260K-a-day divorce settlement

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi Nov. 8, 2011. / AP

ROME Italian ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi has blamed "feminist, communist" judges for a euro200,000 ($260,000) a day divorce settlement following the breakup of his second marriage.

Berlusconi told the private La7 network Tuesday that he was appealing the settlement with ex-wife Veronica Lario.

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Italian media initially reported the settlement amounted to euro100,000 a day. But Berlusconi said the figure, with arrears, was double that. He said: "These are three women judges, feminists and communists, OK? These are the Milan judges who have persecuted me since 1994."

Lario filed for divorce in 2009, citing Berlusconi's fondness for younger women. The billionaire media mogul is currently on trial, accused of paying for sex with an underage Moroccan teen and using his office to cover it up. He and the girl deny the charges.

[FormerUSMCSergeant]

$260,000/day is almost $11,000/hr.
How anyone in their right mind could consider that to be a realistic figure is beyond me.

[bobnjersey]

[Lario filed for divorce in 2009, citing Berlusconi's fondness for younger women. ]
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wow ... what a surprise.

she was caught off guard by that?

[bearfoot33]

berlusconi is paying for the corruption from his years in power. he covered his thefts so well they were unable to prosecute his many crimes, so they're getting at him anyway they can. and this criminal really deserves it, down with silvio the wannabe emperor

[stamicrach]

Is this a typo.???

[MIO42]

Oooooh how much disease is being spread here
Watch out !

[bearfoot33]

berlusconi is paying for the corruption from his years in power. he covered his thefts so well they were unable to prosecute his many crimes, so they're getting at him anyway they can. and this criminal really deserves it, down with silvio the wannabe emperor

[sweetcakesmaria]

Berlusconi has been accused of corruption and many other things but has never been convicted in a court of law of any wrong doings. This is equivalent to OJ Simpson being found not guilty of murdering his ex wife but later on getting railroaded to prison on a bogus robbery charge in Las Vegas. They couldn't get the murder conviction but wanted to even the score with him any way they could.

[Traveller1977]

actually sweetcakes, he has been convicted recently and is out on bail subject to appeals. The remainder of the charges have expired due to his presidential immunity.

It is well know that he has had links with the mafia as well

[FormerUSMCSergeant]

Old rich farts marry young, pretty gold-diggers and then cry when their gold gets dug........

[tapittwice]

He should have just kept paying for sex with hookers every time he needed some booty, it would have been much cheaper than marriage.

[micmac666]

'Always true.

[flexsf]

Pay up, you sexist, Christianist zealot. Your days of molesting little girls while married are over. You deserve to pay more, and your Catholic zealot industrial church is directly implicated in your hypocritical sex life.

[bobbychuckles]

If it were mathematically possible for you to be 200% right, then you would be. Good call.

[Grizzlyironbear]

This is why a woman shouldnt be a judge for any and all marriage issues.

[flexsf]

You are aware that he's been excused for pedophilia, right? The Catholic Church forgave him.

[artgirl33]

No, this is exactly why women should be judges! I say things should stay this way until we get equal pay.