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Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister turns 73 today, and like a fine wine, Europe's most successful ladykiller only gets better with age.

The Italian prime minister has been dogged by sex-scandal rumors for years, but has managed to slip through them all without a scratch. This is a man who eagerly promoted exotic dancers and other unqualified hotties for Italian and European Parliament posts -- and got away with it.

Amid his recent divorce drama, Berlusconi found time to attend an incredibly good-looking 18-year-old girl's birthday party, allegedly bed at least one prostitute, and host nude bashes at his villa.

So in honor of this aging chick magnet, we've compiled a list of the World's Most Powerful Ladies Men ...

Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin, the Russian media would have us believe, is a happily married man. The former president, who for all intents and purposes still controls the old USSR from a sideline position, has been married to Ludmila Putin for 26 years, but has never been known to keep mistresses.

However, when one Russian paper leaked the story of his alleged love affair with "24-year-old Olympic gymnast-turned-topless-magazine-model-turned-Duma-deputy Alina Kabaeva," it called into question everything we've known about the Russkie. Is he a ladies man to rival our hero, Mr. Berlusconi? Perhaps not, but either way, the secret is as closely guarded as any by Putin's terrifying wingmen, the KGB.


Nicolas Sarkozy
Here's a man with a set of brass balls second to none. Running for the French presidency in 2007, Sarkozy dumped his second wife and took up with a hot nude model/singer named Carla Bruni, who everyone knew would become the next Madame Sarkozy. If Sarkozy could steal her from Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, two of her former lovers, there's no telling who's stealing him from her ... if you know what we mean.


Richard Branson
Leighton Meester and Pamela Anderson are just some of the amazing bevy of women Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Media, Inc., has apparently had dalliances with during his many jetsetting adventures.

The world's 261st-richest person started his earliest successful business as a teenager -- and the groupies soon followed. One female reporter describes Branson as the constant recipient of sexy come-on's: "Women all over this town seem to love Richard. They swarm around him and giggle like school girls as soon as his hair swishes into sight. A ... 20-something woman told him that if he moved to Australia, he could move in with her."


Bill Clinton

We couldn't ignore America's most celebrated ladies man, even if he's no longer dogged with the tales of conquest that nearly doomed his presidency. He originally only had extramarital affairs with some of the least likely candidates imaginable; for example, Paula Jones -- the only woman alive who could make Gennifer Flowers look hot. Now, thankfully, he's moved on to some seriously sexy women, including Canadian politicians and a reportedly gorgeous "mystery blonde." As the former Commander in Chief grows older and less influential, it's nice to see the rest of his mojo's still working.


Kim Jong-Il

A surprise choice, we know, but Kim Jong-Il is a powerful man whose secret life is the subject of much speculation. For instance, it wasn't until 2003 that Jong-Il was revealed to have a secret love child via his mistress, who was only unveiled after she suffered a near-fatal car crash.

The then-50-year-old former exotic dancer soon went back into hiding, but not before the media blew the lid off a well-kept dictatorial secret in North Korea: The Supreme Leader has at least two other mistresses. Not bad for a guy best known for being the butt of a joke in a puppet movie.


Imran Khan Niazi

Khan is a former cricket star and sometime politician in Pakistan, where he maintains a devoted and potentially powerful following. But his days of womanizing may be behind him. In the 1970s and 80s, he lived in London and romanced the country's debutantes, socialites, artists and sorority girls before marrying one of those rich gals and moving to Pakistan, where he began his rise to glory in that other sport of kings.

After his divorce, Wikipedia says, it was reported that Khan had fathered a love child with one of his mistresses several years prior. Although he's now semi-retired and living on a pig farm, we'd still wager he has a well-stocked harem holed up in one of his stables.
Let us know who we left out.