AFP, via Yahoo!:
Berlusconi trying to ban villa photos ROME (AFP) – Italian prosecutors Saturday ordered the seizure of several hundred photographs, whose publication Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is trying to block, taken at his Sardinia villa and reportedly featuring topless young women.
The move came after Berlusconi's lawyer Niccolo Ghedini filed a complaint against a photographer who took some 700 snaps of private parties at the Italian leader's home, the domestic ANSA news agency reported.
The photographer, Antonello Zappadu, will also be charged in a separate case of fraud for trying to sell the snaps, which Berlusconi says violate his privacy, to two celebrity magazines.
Berlusconi wrote three days ago to the Italian data protection agency asking it to stop publication of the photos taken at the Villa de Porto Rotondo, the newspapers La Stampa and Il Corriere della Serra said.
There are said to be around 700 photos in all, taken by a Sardinian photographer, some of which depict what Il Corriere described as "bikini-clad or topless girls" lounging in the gardens or taking showers. ............(more)
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