Jesus what kind of a curse is Italian culture? He's been in power what, 15 years, leaves office the third richest man in the country while Italy teters on the edge of an economic abyss into which it will probably fall while dragging down France and quite possibly the EU ushering in a global depression in the process. Let's hopoe Burlesconi ends his days like every Mafia Don should locked in prison. Some chance. And to think this lout was revered as some kind of sweet roughish villain. Stupid Italians.