Occasionally I get requests for more pictures, film links, videos (
sometimes from people who have actually posted the odd thanks 
) .... usually I try to help if I can, but only rarely do they result in a further posting ... mainly because I have 'done the post', and I want to leave it to them to do their own postings. However, I got a request from a regular thanker and friend of this thread
SIT, for more information on
Michela Vittoria Brambilla .... sadly I have to let him down very gently, and start by saying that she is not directly linked to '
Bunga Bunga', or at least rather, the Italian press haven't dared make any allegation that big. She is famous for being a very loyal member of the crew aboard 'Battleship Berlusconi', and as the chief 'Entertainment Officer', who busies herself ensuring the crew stay loyal to their Admiral. Officer Brambilla regularly runs recruiting campaigns, organises tours of duty, and innocently
sets up the odd party. Its Nicole Minetti, on secondment from the good ship Lombardy, who acts as her right hand, and as the ship’s Social Liaison Officer invited ladies to the parties organised by herself (and Brambilla) ... and that's as far as they are prepared to
hint at her involvement.
But, as I have some more information on her, and as she was a TV personality, and is the current Italian Minister for Tourism, she qualifies on 'celebrity' grounds ... just. She has also been drawn into some private scandals of her own .... so, stretching it a little, here we go. She is president of the young entrepreneurs of Confcommercio association and the daughter of an steel wire making industrialist. She runs her own steel making company, but her rise to fame was in the traditional manner for this thread. Yes, she started as a competitor in the Miss Italy competition in 1986... "
At 18 I chose to enter Miss Romagna,and I ended up in the finals of Miss Italy"... she didn't win (
but would have had SIT and I's votes 
), where she came to the attention of Silvio's roaming eye. She then worked for Chanel 5 TV (One of his franchises) as a 'journalistic trainee' .... and then finally she was a television journalist for Berlusconi's Mediaset group, where she was
famous for her "sexy" attire. She was then was picked to stand for MP on the 'Forza Italia' ticket, but lost in 2006, but later became a right leaning parliamentary member in her own party .... she was appointed to the government cabinet in May 2008 as the 'nominated' Italian Tourism Minister by Conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
She then got dragged into
various controversies starting with the "
Roman Salute" affair .... according to 'La Repubblica', the photographs were of her giving in an "
emotional" way, the "
very fascist" gesture. A video of the event was later released, and showed Brambilla, her right arm solemnly folded over her chest, singing Italy's national anthem together with other dignitaries standing on a parade platform. But as the music ends, Brambilla raises the arm stiffly upwards, making the so-called "Roman salute" - the ancient Roman greeting adopted in modern times by Benito Mussolini's
Fascists and the
Nazis. The Photographs of Brambilla's gesture that appeared in a local newspaper, Gazzetta di Lecco the day after the ceremony, and triggered anger among representatives of Italy's veterans association for World War II partisans, ANPI ....
but presumably not the millions of 'ex Fascista' who probably just keep their heads down running Italian Industry, the government, and other state sectors.
But 41-year-old former Miss Italy contestant, Brambilla later scoffed at allegations that she was paying homage to Italy's Fascist past. She accused Italy's opposition left of "
discussing the angle at which I raised my arm, in the absence of having anything serious to say" .....
On August 21st 2007 she set up the new Freedom People party apparently with Berlusconi's blessing, the goal of which is to merge the right wing allies of Berlusconi. She has worked very closely with Silvio Berlusconi, the president of the Forza Italia party. Some observers (such as the magazine Panorama), name her as a possible successor to Berlusconi, as leader of the party and of the Italian centre-right. Brambilla has publicly denied such rumours.
More Pictures:
NB: As I have mentioned before, I don't believe that many (if any) qualify for a separate post, as most of the girls are little more than 'Escorts', 'teen wannabes', and have no celebrity (no matter how small) value upon which to justify a post of their own. She is one of the few, if not the only one of the Berlusconi's Babes posts to qualify.