Berlusconi: 'Naked Pictures Not A Scandal' (NSFW)

UPDATE: The photographs published by La Pais depicting naked women mingling at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's villa also include a naked former Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, Times Online reports. The photos were taken last summer while Topolanek was still the Czech PM, but he has since resigned. From Times Online:

"It is me in the photo," said Mr Topolanek, who resigned in March after he lost a confidence vote. He said that the photographs had been doctored and accused "European socialists" of orchestrating a smear campaign. "I did not know that the [European] elections were so important for the European socialists that they would do such manipulations," said Mr Topolanek.

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made news again this week when photographs of naked women mingling at his villa emerged on the Spanish website La Pais, and he is now suing for the photos to be sealed (even though they're already on the Internet), Sky News reports. According to Sky News:

News of the photos emerged while Mr Berlusconi took part in a radio phone-in. He said: "I am not at all frightened. There is nothing scandalous in these pictures but this is a violation of my privacy and an scandalous aggression.

"The photographs show people having a jacuzzi by a private villa they were staying in while my guests."

Berlusconi's last scandal, prior to this one, occurred just two weeks ago when he was accused of inappropriateness with 18-year-old Noemi Letizia.

Check out these pictures from La Pais:

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Comments

[anesinger]

09:37 PM on 07/05/2009

Hello is anyone listening to the guy who LIVES in Italy? My husband is from Italy and like the guy above said, this is NOT about topless beaches at all...image Obama never working but spending all his time and tax payer money to party and take all his peeps with him in classic American Rock Star style...all the while Berlusconi pathologically lies to his country trying to create an illusion that he's actually working to positively impact their lives, the only laws this guy makes are so he can cover his own ass and keep himself out of jail, then since he owns most of the media he makes himself look like Jesus Christ Superstar to many unknowing Italians. It's amazing. Look past the sexy Italian topless chicks (and yes, we're too uptight about breasts--but as my Italian husband points out it's funny that we are probably the largest porn industry in the world! AHAH)...it's way deeper, this guy is a joke of leader and an insult to many, many Italians. We would never put up with him in America.

[jtmoney]

10:10 AM on 06/08/2009

Men like naked women! Such a scandal!

[sole]

07:25 PM on 06/07/2009

I live in Italy, I'm American and married to an italian girl. Nu dity is not the issue here but shuttling around personal friends and guests on military planes using taxpayer dollars for entertainment is an issue that doesn't sit well with many people here. When it began to present a problem for him last year, he changed the laws to suit himself like he has done with other issues that cause the italian people to raise their eyebrows. He is a disgrace to a large percentage of the population here for plenty of reasons but remains in power because the remainder of the political spectrum can't seem to unify long enough for their own good. I can't wait for the day when this country truly gets "switched on" and votes self-indulgent leaders like Ber lusconi out of office. When the younger population here becomes more politically active, "grass roots" will be a catch phrase people like Ber lusconi will fear..

[sole]

07:24 PM on 06/07/2009

I live in Italy, I'm American and married to an italian girl. Nudity is not the issue here but shuttling around personal friends and guests on military planes using taxpayer dollars for entertainment is an issue that doesn't sit well with many people here. When it began to present a problem for him last year, he changed the laws to suit himself like he has done with other issues that cause the italian people to raise their eyebrows. He is a disgrace to a large percentage of the population here for plenty of reasons but remains in power because the remainder of the political spectrum can't seem to unify long enough for their own good. I can't wait for the day when this country truly gets "switched on" and votes self-indulgent leaders like Berlusconi out of office. When the younger population here becomes more politically active, "grass roots" will be a catch phrase people like Berlusconi will fear...

[Towanda66]

05:47 PM on 06/07/2009

Dear friends, It's not 'La País' but 'EL PAÍS'. Their site is www.elpais.com. And the link to their site is not working.
Thank you so much,
EL PAÍS fan.

[macrumpton]

12:28 PM on 06/07/2009

Topless women at a pool in a private home. Shocking!

[swimviking]

06:52 AM on 06/07/2009

Message to all of you non-Italians who think Berlusconi is great:

If you admire him so much, please take him off our hands.

Thank you!
While you're at it, take Bondi too....

Many thanks,
Italy

[GlenRast]

05:52 PM on 06/07/2009

We'll trade you Dick Cheney for him.

[LeftRight]

07:57 AM on 06/08/2009

Nah, that's not a fair trade. We'll have to throw in bush, Gingrich and Palin too!! Darn the bad luck!

[frantaylor]

04:15 PM on 06/12/2009

Maybe you guys should exercise your right to vote, that you can thank us for, and get rid of him yourselves.

[grf67]

06:42 AM on 06/07/2009

Only a stick-up-the-butt republican could think that this is important enough to talk about. Actually, republicans seem to think that talking about these kinds of things enhance their assertions of being the party of family values.

[AN2009]

05:18 AM on 06/07/2009

No wonder Silvio Berlusconi is Nicolas Sarkozy's hero...

[pietkeutel]

05:07 AM on 06/07/2009

You go boy LOL

[ICantBeBothered]

02:42 AM on 06/07/2009

If there aren't naked women frolicing about at Italian villas then the evil doers will have won.

[swimviking]

07:33 AM on 06/07/2009

if you can't be bothered why are you bothering?

[andyg]

12:00 AM on 06/07/2009

It's europe, represed american's need to lighten up.

[Lozange]

10:21 PM on 06/06/2009

I think this comes from Veronica Lario aka Mrs Berlusconi. It's payback time!

[HekmabaJuzimax]

09:57 PM on 06/06/2009

Berlusconi: "Naked Pictures Not A Scandal."
Tom Green: "Yes it is! Yes it is! (long pause) Yes it is!"

[Hospiton]

08:25 PM on 06/06/2009

Listen guys, the huge villa is yards away from the beach, and it is quite a common custom in Europe to sunbath at the beach topless.

[GlenRast]

05:51 PM on 06/07/2009

Hell it's common to sunbath topless in a city park in a lot of European cities. Why that's a problem I've never been able to figure out. Conservative Americans are so sexually repressed they think a woman breast feeding is 'dirty'.