PM Manmohan Singh will meet his Italian counterpart, scandal hit  Silvio Berlusconi, during the G-8 summit. Berlusconi is no short of a playboy.

At the ripe age of 72, Berloscuni is not only Italy’s richest man; he is also the most controversial and women loving man.

Italian newspapers and web sites are full of his sexual escapades. His wife Veronica Lario wants to divorce him and his party and country don’t know when the PM‘s flings with ‘dancers, show girls, and models‘ will end.

In a letter addressed to the wives of G-8 leaders, the women activists and academics have stated, ‘We are profoundly indignant, as women employed in the world of universities and culture, at the way in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi treats women both in public and in private.

‘ However, Berlusconi is desperately seeking an image makeover. The G-8 debates and his photo-op with Obama, Chinese President Hu Jintao and the ‘saintly‘ Dr Singh might help stabilise things a bit in these turbulent times.

Berlusconi’s officers are worried that a current story about the PM‘s alleged infatuation with 18-year-old Noemi Letizia can spin out of control.

The relentless Italian media has already dubbed the scandal ‘Noemigate‘. Affair with Noemi Letizia. Noemi Letizia, a girl from Naples, was gifted a gold necklace priced about €6,000 by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi recently on her 18th birthday party held at a luxury villa in her hometown.

“It was a lovely surprise to see the man I call papi (daddy) at my party. I call him papi but of course he is second to my father. He gave me a lovely necklace as a present.” Noemi thrilled. According to the Italian blog Sdamy.com, Noemi Letizia is a former Miss Tirreno and owns a cosmetics shop.

Noemi’s father Benedetto Letizia is a businessman who befriended with Silvio Berlusconi. The above-mentioned site also said he is a municipal employee of Naples. With her parents at her side, she told The Times that she was “absolutely not” the illegitimate daughter of the Italian Prime Minister, whom she affectionately calls “Papi”.

In their first joint interview since the scandal broke, the family denied yesterday they had any inappropriate connection to Mr Berlusconi — but refused to clarify how or when they began to count him as a personal friend.

Domenico Cozzolino, Noemi Letizia‘s Boyfriend Meet Domenico Cozzolino, the boyfriend of Noemi Letizia who is at the center of a potential scandal that could damage the image of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Domenico Cozzolino is Noemi Letizia’s boyfriend of slightly more one month so far.