Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, everybody’s favorite creepy, potentially corrupt world leader, offered some helpful dating advice for young people this weekend. We smell a book deal!
The AP reports that at a convention for his party’s youth wing Sunday, Berlusconi explained that young women should date rich guys: ”I said to a girl to look for a wealthy boyfriend. This suggestion is not unrealistic.” He also opined that women like older men because, ”he’s old. He dies and I inherit.” And he attributed his own success with the ladies to the fact that “I’m a nice guy” and ”I’m loaded.” The former is debatable, but Berlusconi’s definitely loaded — still, we bet he could use the extra cash a dating guide would bring. Berlusconi’s qualifications for penning such a book include a “controversies” section on Wikipedia that currently has fourteen subheadings, including my personal favorite, “Jokes, gestures and blunders,” which includes this gem:
In February 2002, at a European Union summit of foreign ministers, Berlusconi […] made a vulgar gesture (the “corna”) behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister, Josep Piqué, intimating he was a cuckold during an official photo shoot. This is a common joke among Italian children, but many felt it was utterly out of place in an international meeting.
Given that he once gave another world leader the sexual-innuendo equivalent of bunny ears, Berlusconi is clearly unafraid of shaking things up, and he could shake up the publishing world with his very own dating book. Here are a few sample tips to get him started:
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