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MILAN - DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE BURNING CAR

Besides an unhealthy and unwelcome wave of nostalgia for the 80s, another side effect of The King's passing is that lots of good news got sidelined. For example, nobody has heard of Mir Mousavi's whereabouts since last Thursday--Iranian official sources say he's under house arrest, but who knows what that means? That might be code for him being strung up like a provolone somewhere. Anyway, my point is that you probably read all about MJ on every single news outlet and watched at least four of his videos, and that the editor of this website told me that "walking down the street is like listening to a Michael Jackson sound collage," so I thought I'd give you a little head's up about what's going on in mafialand, where it was recently confirmed that we have the most hilarious prime minister in the history of world politics, and the horniest (although that boner belongs to Czech PM Topolanek). Consider this a breather from all the Jacko-being-dead-news-insanity.

Barbara Montereale was interviewed earlier this week by Repubblica, Italy's best-selling left-wing daily, confirming that Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi used to regularly throw parties with dozens of showgirls attending, including scores of Eastern European girls dressed as sexy Santas (who were all instructed to call him "Papi"), and a few escorts that he, according to Montereale, had sex with. Funny thing is that she suggested all this and then ended the interview by saying that she loves Berlusconi, and that she wishes him no harm, and that she votes for him too. Smart girl. This should be juicy enough on its own, but there's more. Earlier this week a transsexual presenter from a local TV station in Bari was brought into the investigation as possible "madame" for Berlusconi's needs. And yesterday night, right when everybody was watching excerpts from "Thriller" in the news, somebody set fire to Montereale's car, which was parked under her flat. What a funny coincidence. I'd like to end this by saying that I'm pretty sure that when this guy dies (he'll never back down) I'll miss him to bits. He makes reading the news the most entertaining part of the day.

TIM SMALL