ROME( AFP)-A Tuscan court acquitted former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi Thursday( Oct 21) of bribing a witness in the notorious" Rubygate" scandal about alleged sex fests he hosted. The leader of the centre-right Forza Italia party had stood accused of paying a piano player present at his" Bunga Bunga" parties to lie about the evenings. Girls who attended would later describe the events as sex fests, but Berlusconi has always insisted they were nothing more than elegant dinner partie

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has staged a symbolic wedding – swapping rings with a woman 53 years his junior in an unofficial ceremony. Dubbed a ‘festival of love’, the lavish union saw the 85-year-old Milanese multi-billionaire bursting into song and chuckling behind a three-tiered cake as he took the hand of his 32-year-old bride Marta Fascina.It marks the third time the ex-PM has made it up the aisle – but the latest coupling wasn’t a marriage in the eyes of the law. It’s u