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MODEL CITIZEN Heidi Klum's aunt calls Briatore a "wrinkly, worthless old has-been"

FLAVIO BRIATORE
Age: 56
Occupation: Entrepreneur; manager of Renault's Formula One racing team; owner of Cipriani London and the Billionaire Club in Sardinia
Notable Assets: 200-foot yacht; leathery orange tan

"I prefer younger girls," he explained. "They say thank you for dinner, at least"The "overweight Italian stallion" has managed to parlay his gratuitous racing fortune and hairy Buddha belly into relationships with the world's most beautiful women, including Nicole Kidman, Elle Macpherson, and Eva Herzigova. He's often spotted off Sardinia on his yacht, Force Blue, with bikini-clad ladies half his age. "I prefer younger girls," he explained to the Daily Mail. "They say thank you for dinner, at least."

But as Heidi Klum learned, free meals are a lot easier to get out of Briatore than child support or fidelity. After his dalliance with a 19-year-old model cut their romance short, Heidi's baby daddy refused to offer financial assistance without a paternity test. A friend of Klum's later told the Post the billionaire never "gave her a dime" to care for their daughter, though Briatore claims otherwise. Klum's aunt tried to remain neutral, describing him to the Mail as a "wrinkly, worthless old has-been ... bastard." Naomi Campbell may have shared those sentiments when she had a tattoo of Briatore's initials removed from her arm. Despite Campbell's accusations of domestic abuse, they've continued their cycle of make-ups and break-ups. It seems, however hard he tries, Briatore is unable to commit to just one size zero. "You know how it is with women," he told the Guardian last year. "The big excitement comes with the flirting. You flirt, flirt, flirt, and then you are there."