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TRY to purge from your mind those oily portraits of a young Cherie Blair working as an artist’s model.

And instead get a load of Veronica Berlusconi. Has she not grace? Has she not chestnut hair? Has she not a magnificent pair of breasts which, for artistic purposes, she displays to good effect in a production of The Magnificent Cuckold at a Milan theatre?

That was 1981. And in the audience was Silvio Berlusconi, entrepreneur, football tycoon and latterly former political leader of Italy.

“I felt a flash of lightning,” says Berlusconi as he relives the moment in his mind’s eye. Veronica was to become his mistress and then his second wife.

But time changes people. And when a mistress becomes wife, a vacancy is created. And so it is that Berlusconi’s eyes begin to wander.

As the Times reports, he eyes up Mara Carfagna, 31, a former TV “showgirl” who, interestingly enough, is a deputy in Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party.

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