Watch and learn.

“You know that I am a great expert about women,” he says, immediately after settling in to talk. “Yesterday I got a call from my daughter. I have a grandson who is four years old, one of my six grandchildren. He went to Formentera and was eating pizza with his mother and some old friends. The pizza maker was Italian, and his daughter was serving at the table. She was very pretty. So my grandson was fascinated by this girl. He asks her, ‘what is your name?’ ‘Caterina,’ she says. ‘Oh, you are so beautiful Caterina. What beautiful eyes you have Caterina.’ Then he made his move.” Berlusconi points the first and second fingers of his right hand and twists them sharply.

“He says, ‘If tomorrow, Caterina, you come to the zoo with me, I shall show you where the crocodiles are.’ He is fascinated by crocodiles, because they look like a prehistoric animal. So Caterina went back to the kitchen to her father and said, ‘Berlusconi’s grandson is exactly like his grandfather. He asked me out to go see the crocodiles.’ So the father had a laugh about it, and made a crocodile shape out of pizza dough. Caterina goes and serves the crocodile dish to the table. The plate had not touched the table, when Alessandro says, ‘Look Caterina, if you come with me tomorrow to the zoo, I want to show you the crocodiles. The real ones!’”

Berlusconi in Winter [The Atlantic]

Comments (28)

  1. Posted by E*Trade Baby | February 7, 2012 at 2:04 PM

    Weak.

  2. Posted by Alt_EST | February 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM

    Caterina, I want to be on you. I want to be on you.

    -Alessandro Burgandy

  3. Posted by Guest | February 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM

    4 year old making a move with 2 fingers

    …other than that I have no concerns

  4. Posted by pazzo83 | February 7, 2012 at 2:09 PM

    I didn't realize Berlusconi's grandson could speak English that well!

    - UBS Languages Quant

  5. Posted by Guest | February 7, 2012 at 2:12 PM

    Pizza places are the taco bells of Italy.

  6. Posted by Chico | February 7, 2012 at 2:16 PM

    Thats-a-nica a storey. He go make a da pizza pie anda de kid he try to getta da girl. Whatsamatta u? You no lika dem girls! Go Shaduppa your face you guinea, greaseball wop!

    Chico Marx

  7. Posted by Pedophile | February 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM

    Sadly Caterina is only 7.

  8. Posted by Movie Buff | February 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM

    Stewie Griffin: There you go, bein' confident! Like an Italian guy in any given theoretical situation.

    [Cut to a stereotypical Italian wise-guy speaking to a friend]

    Italian Guy: If that was me- I'm- I'm just sayin', if that was me, they are lucky that was not me, because if the circumstances were such, as you have described them but with me in them, that's a very different and scary outcome for those involved. If.

  9. Posted by Guest | February 7, 2012 at 2:29 PM

    Notta too much-a!

    - Poppi

  10. Posted by Abe_Froman_ | February 7, 2012 at 2:29 PM

    Amateur

    -DSK's 2 year-old love child

  11. Posted by Guest | February 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM

    Crocodile is an old Berlusconi family nickname for penis. And the zoo is what this sick fuck of a 4-year old calls his sex pad bedroom.

    Story doesn't seem so cute now, does it?

  12. Posted by Guestest | February 7, 2012 at 2:49 PM

    All the 4-yr old did was get picked up. It was time for him to do some picking up of his own.

  13. Posted by BRO | February 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM

    My girlfriend called me a pedophile. I told her "that's a pretty big word for a 5-year-old!"

  14. Posted by Abe_Froman_ | February 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    So you're saying wear your vineyard vines and wait there for J-wow to come to you after the last train leaves?

  15. Posted by Situation | February 7, 2012 at 2:55 PM

    She's DTF

  16. Posted by Mexi_Cant | February 7, 2012 at 2:59 PM

    4 year old's tend to have small fingers. I would advise Allesandro in using the whole hand, even if Caterina is a "virgin".

  17. Posted by VonSloneker | February 7, 2012 at 3:00 PM

    Baby-Bunga-Bunga, is the NKI (nuovo killing it)…and likely grandpa hyperbole.

    - Etrade baby

  18. Posted by GGG | February 7, 2012 at 4:36 PM

    "He is fascinated by crocodiles, because they look like a prehistoric animal"

  19. Posted by Jackie Treehorn | February 7, 2012 at 5:10 PM

    I picked up a russian hooker this weekend named Onya….Onya Backubich

  20. Posted by Your Mom on Facebook | February 7, 2012 at 5:11 PM

    Doing the Friending?

  21. Posted by guest | February 7, 2012 at 5:57 PM

    How does this only have 9 thumbs up?

  22. Posted by guest | February 7, 2012 at 6:02 PM

    Is this his grandson? Toddler swag.

  23. Posted by guest | February 7, 2012 at 6:03 PM
  24. Posted by guest | February 7, 2012 at 8:50 PM

    Berlusconi should party with DSK

  25. Posted by Guest | February 7, 2012 at 9:16 PM

    Someone needs to tell Silvio that being "a great expert about women" is different from just having no qualms about buying hookers.

  26. Posted by Guest | February 8, 2012 at 10:48 AM

    No, it's pretty similar. Lotta very wealthy and successful guys get hookers even when they have a limitless amount of super models and high-profile actresses at their disposal, e.g. Christiano Ronaldo, Hugh Grant, Kenny Powers.

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