When you're the secret mistress of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, life is a game of sex, jealousy and power.

Text by Martin Deeson

There's something about Italian women. Even the policewomen are drop-dead sexy. At their best, Italian women ooze glamour and class. And Evelina Manna is Italian womanhood at its most seductive and also its most dangerous. She has the kind of curves a saint or even a head of state could fall for—and that's exactly what happened. For four years she was Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's mistress, and it was by all accounts a fiery affair.