Feltrenelli and Mondadori booksellers both rank the book at No. 1 in sales within Italy.

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The magazine is owned by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mondadori media group.

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Mondadori is owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Chi is run by his eldest daughter from his first marriage, Marina.

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The magistrates ruled that every photograph published in France by Mondadori in future would carry a fine, also of 10, 000 euros per breach.

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Missoni recalled that the brand first caught the eye of fashion writers when Anna Piaggi wrote about it for a monthly printed by Mondadori publishing house in 1965.

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Mr Berlusconi is alleged to have bribed Mr Metta, an appeal-court judge, to rule in his favour in a bitter takeover battle for Mondadori, a publishing group, in 1991.

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Besides that magazine, some of those photos also were published in the Irish Daily Star newspaper and Chi, which according to its parent company Mondadori is a women's magazine with an average circulation of more than 218, 000 and a readership well beyond that.

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Thousands of miles away, at a court in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, a lawyer for the duke and duchess had sought a privacy injunction against the publishers of Closer magazine - Mondadori - to prevent the photographs of Catherine being re-published or distributed in France.

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However, the rise of the celebrity press in France since the introduction in 2005 of magazines such as Closer, -- the French edition is published by Italian company Mondadori, part of the Berlusconi empire -- has proved that French readers have a taste for gossip too.

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