These were the boom years: television became his second home, football became one of his most profitable investments, and his appointment as prime minister in 1994 consolidated a power that had for years been established as quickly as it was dominant. In fact, Silvio Berlusconi's second life began in 1990 with his marriage to Veronica, from which three children were born: Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi. Thanks to the bond with their children, Silvio and Elvira maintained an exemplary calmness for any former married couple.
Things between them began to change about fifteen years after the marriage, with Cavalier's parallel history with Miriam Raffaella Bartolini, better known by the stage name Veronica Lario, an actress 20 years his junior.įor her, Berlusconi ended his marriage to Elvira - it was 1985 - without fanfare. His first wife, Carla Elvira dall'Oglio-shy and reserved, whom he married in 1965 and had two children Marina and Pier Silvio-is the woman who "suffers" less than the others from media pressure. His official, unofficial and secret connections brought him to the center of world news (and court) and which, in economic terms, cost him an expenditure of at least 75 million euros, of which 46 for his second wife Veronica Lario and 20 for ex-girlfriend Francesca Pascale. While it is too soon for details of his funeral, Berlusconi built a Pharaoh-inspired marble mausoleum at his villa in Arcore, near Milan, to house his family and friends when they die.In his long life, one of the most exposed in the media during the last forty years, Silvio Berlusconi - who died at the age of 86 on June 12 - spared nothing even on the political level and even less on the personal one. He is survived by his 33-year-old girlfriend, Marta Fascina, two ex-wives and five children, some of whom help run his empire, recently estimated to be worth some $7 billion. Despite being re-elected to the Senate last year, he was rarely seen in public.īut he remained the official head of his right-wing Forza Italia party, a junior - and occasionally troublesome - partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition government.īerlusconi led Italy three times between 19, for a total of nine years, wooing voters with a promise of economic success only to be forced out as a debt crisis gripped his country.īut his influence extended well beyond politics, thanks to his extensive TV, newspaper and sporting interests, while his playboy antics kept him in the headlines even in his final years. His admission came just three weeks after he was discharged following a six-week stay at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, during which time doctors revealed he had a rare type of blood cancer.īerlusconi had suffered ill health for years, from heart surgery in 2016 to a 2020 hospitalisation for coronavirus.
The billionaire media mogul was admitted to a Milan hospital on Friday for what aides said were pre-planned tests related to his leukaemia. Silvio Berlusconi comes out of a voting booth before casting his ballot at a polling station in Milan, Italy, on September 25, 2022. Milan: Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister who reshaped Italy’s political and cultural landscape while fending off multiple legal and sex scandals, has died aged 86, his spokesman confirmed on Monday.
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