Is 18-year-old girl behind Berlusconi's marriage meltdown really his daughter?

New York, May 06 (ANI): Rumours are abuzz that the 18-year-old girl at the center of the storm surrounding Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is his daughter.

As per sources, Noemi Letizia calls the Italian leader 'Papi' or 'Daddy', reports the New York Post.

Letizia's mother, a former showgirl, worked for Berlusconi's Fininvest media empire 19 years ago, and Berlusconi has a history of hiring exquisitely beautiful women, sources said.

Berlusconi, who attended Letizia's birthday in Naples and gave her a gold and diamond necklace, said, "I am the friend of the [girl's] father and nothing more."

However, an Italian journalist said: "The father is no friend of Berlusconi.

First he called him Prime Minister. The next day, he called him Silvio." (ANI)