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Is Silvio Berlusconi Really Engaged to a 27-Year-Old, or Do Americans Just Speak Bad Italian?

Max Read · 12/17/12 01:10PM

Yesterday, former Italian Prime Minister and the world's foremost thrower of "Bunga Bunga" parties Silvio Berlusconi, age 76, "unveiled" (to use the odd and yet somehow entirely appropriate phrasing of MSNBC) his girlfriend, Francesca Pascale, "a 27-year-old political councilor in his People of Freedom Party." He also announced their engagement — or did he? Let's ask Google Translate.