LOVE IS SAYING YOU'RE SORRY

ROME

- It was domestic drama at its best - an angry wife airing her dirty laundry for all to see.

Veronica Lario, the usually private wife of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, chose to make her anger over his flirtations public in an open letter in a rival newspaper.

By day's end, the 70-year-old billionaire - Italy's richest man - was figuratively on his knees, apologizing to Lario, 50, for reportedly having flirted with two other women at a party. She demanded "a public apology, since I haven't received any privately." *