Today’s Silvio Berlusconi case did not concern the Karima el Mahroug, Ruby the Heart-stealer matter nor the tax fraud case. Thursday’s decision concereds his family-owned Il Giornale daily. The paper published wiretaps connected to a banking scandal nearly seven years earlier. Paolo Berlusconi was sentenced to two years and three months for the wiretaps publication. But today Silvio was sentenced to one year.

In October LALATE reported that Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud in other case concerning the purchase of TV rights to films. The court found that Silvio Berlusconi failed to report significant taxes during those transactions. As a result, the court found him guilty and sentenced him to pay a thirteen million dollar fine plus serve four years in jail.

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He has two other cases including the Heart-stealer case being resolved later this month. After today’s sentencing, Silvio’s attorney issued a statement to news “I’m not surprised, given that it’s Milan and it has to do with Berlusconi. But I am concerned and shocked because I’m quite convinced that the charges against Berlusconi were weak and contradictory and even completely lacking.”

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In an unusually drafted settlement agreement revealed to news, Lario will get $4 million a month in alimony payments. But she won’t get anything else besides that. Berlusconi will retain one hundred percent of all assets at stake in the divorce proceeding with Lario. She will walk away with no real estate or asset holdings, claims news.

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Beyond his massive corporate empire, Berlusconi’s real estate assets are said to be extensive. Among them is Villa Belvedere valued at over 78 million euros. Several other homes are said to be of comparable value. The latest settlement agreement is not too far from the initial demands sought by Lario during the divorce. Berlusconi originally wanted to pay a mere 300,000 euros per month.

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A year ago, Silvio Berlusconi battled a scandal with Ruby Rubacuori Heartbreaker (aka Karima el Mahrough, “Ruby The Heartstealer” or “Ruby Heart Stealer”).

Berlusconi supporters told news that the expression “bunga bunga” was never used by the Italian leader, but by friends to refer to only dancing. Berlusconi said at the time that “There was no sacrilegious behavior at my house. This has all been invented by … prosecutors. It’s all the work of the fevered imagination of prosecutors and journalists.”

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But Berlusconi, executives inside his Mediaset group, even the head of a Swiss bank, have two automatic rights of appeal. As CNN reports. “Also, because the case dates back to July 2006, the statute of limitations will expire next year, meaning there is a good chance that none of the defendants will serve any prison time.”

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But while this case was brewing for years, it was only one trouble for Berlusconi in recent months. In September, his Chi Italy Magazine Kate Middleton scandal erupted news. Berlusconi’s French Closer and Chi Italy Magazine both published the pictures of Middleton improperly, a court found.

Then, in April last year, prosecutors claimed that Ruby and Berlusconi had relations thirteen times when she was seventeen years old. Prosecutors further asserted that the then 74 year old man was having relations with the former Moroccan belly dancer Karima El Mahroug in his private mansions The two had long denied ever having relations. Prosecutors claimed that the leader had relations with thirty-three women in three months. Berlusconi claimed that is physically impossible for any man in his seventies.

This week, William is denouncing Chi once again. In 2006, he and brother Prince Harry called Chi’s publication of photos of Diana the lowest form of decency. He told news at the time that Chi’s decision implied a new “low has been reached” by the Italian Magazine.

This time, Chi has a new editor heading the Italian Magazine. And if you compare editor Alfonso Signorini’s comments today to those of Umberto Brindani back in 2006, you won’t find any consistency. In 2006, Umberto Brindani called near death photos of Lady Diana as appropriate. But today, Alfonso Signorini says that Chi never publishes morbid pictures and always concerns itself with the dignity of the person depicted. “They are natural pictures, there is no morbidity about them, there is nothing that could affect the dignity of the person involved.”

Moreover, Signorini continually tells news today that his pictures should be run because they are “exclusive” and “scoops”. “I am a director of a newspaper not a supermarket, I don’t sell artichokes and carrots, I sell photographic scoops”. He added “Above all, I published them for various reasons, as a journalistic scoop”.

The Royal Family has denounced the publication of the Chi pictures. “Any such publication would serve no purpose other than to cause further, entirely unjustifiable upset to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were enjoying time alone together in the privacy of a relative’s home,” said an official news statement today. Chi on Monday published not one but two hundred images Middleton. Chi and French Closer are both owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s Mondadori group.  Berlusconi has yet to comment to news about the matter.