The Berlusconi name has never been far from controversy, has it? The man is a pressure cooker of Italian politics, a wheeler-dealer extraordinaire with a taste for the younger things in life. Like a vampire in a suit, he seems unable to resist the pretty young things he sees in the streets. In the latest episode of the Berlusconi show: Silvio marries 28 year-old Francesca Pascale, who is accused of being a lesbian bound by a ‘sham’of a marriage.

Yup. Silvio didn’t really dig the idea of a conventional wedding, so he married Francesca, who was a teenage activist in his Forza Italia party, in a low-key wedding at the chapel in his backyard. “It’s not a civil marriage,” said close friend Marythell Polanco,  “but Silvio has a chapel in his house. He was able to do it there and no one knows anything about it.”

Smooth.

Meanwhile, Pascale is looking to sue Bulgarian actress Michele Bonev for 10 million Euros in damages after her TV station broadcast claims by  that she is in fact a lesbian, and that her marriage is nothing more than a mere performance. Whatever the truth is – one thing we do know is that Berlusconi should be pretty stoked with his new wife.

Have a peep.

And here she is starring in an Italian folk music video. Don’t ask.

[Source : Daily Mail, Youtube]