Best of Berlusconi's women

Barbara Matera, 28, science graduate and the only succesful one of the original four showgirl candidates to be put forward as MEP. But she is better known for her appearance in Miss Italia and her TV career where she has appeared as an announcer and in several soaps.

Camilla Ferranti, 30, actress named on the MEP list but failed to make the cut. She has posed semi-naked for a variety of calendars and magazines and has also appeared in several Italian soap operas. 

 

Angela Sozio, 31, Flame-haired Angela has appeared on Grande Fratello - Italy’s Big Brother - and was famously snapped sitting on Berlusconi’s knee two years ago at a weekend break with four other women at his luxury villa in Sardinia

Eleonora Gaggioli, 29. She also has a glittering past as a TV star and a search on the internet for her throws up several photographs of her posing in her underwear on a leopard print sofa. Like Camilla, Eleonora was also named in the so-called Silvio tapes last summer.
 

Mara Carfagna, 33, former model, Miss Italy contestant and calendar girl but never ”anything erotic” now Equal Opportunities Minister in Berlusconi’s cabinet. At an awards dinner two years ago year Berlusconi told Miss Carfagna, who is single, that if he wasn’t married he would “gladly marry” her. His wife Veronica sent a letter to a national newspaper demanding he apologise for embarrassing her - which he duly did.

Elena Russo, 35, again one of five women mentioned on he so called Silvio tapes where Berlusconi calls a TV produer friend asking him to find jobs for the women he later calls his ”little butterflies.” She is now the ’face’ of the cleaned up Naples TV advert which praises Berlusconi’s government for resolving the city’s rubbish crisis.