2 marriages, 5 children and his last girlfriend 35 years younger: Berlusconi’s love history

Berlusconi has been married twice: his first marriage was at the age of 29 with Carla Elvira Lucia Dall’Ogliowith whom he shared 20 years of love and as a result of his relationship, two children were born: Maria Elvirabetter known as Marine(57 years old) and Pier Silvio (54).

The couple divorced in 1985. During this first marriage, the Italian had an ‘affair’ with the actress Veronica Lariowith whom he had a daughter: Barbara, born a year before signing the divorce with his first wife. After having two other children with the interpreter: Eleonora (37 years old) and Luigi (35); in 1990 he married her for the second time.

When he was just an Italian television mogul, his sexual escapades with the young soubrette of his company were part of his private sphere. However, when his power increased and he achieved a position in politics, these forays became common knowledge. And even more so after some of these young women became ministers, undersecretaries, deputies, and even MEPs. In addition to presenting models and spectacular artists on electoral lists, as was the case with Barbara Materaa dancer who ended up as an MEP in Strasbourg.

sexist comments

‘Il Cavaliere’ -as Berlusconi was popularly known since he received the honorary title of Cavaliere in 1977 for his real estate activity- has starred in numerous anecdotes throughout his life in which he demonstrated that for him flirting was part of his essence. Some of the most remembered were, for example, the one that occurred at a television gala in 2007, in which he told the Venezuelan model Aida Yespica that with her “he would go wherever”; another in which he assured the then Minister of Equal Opportunities Maria Carfagna that “if you were not married, I would marry you immediately”, accused some time after having been Berlusconi’s mistress to make a career imitating Monica Lewinsky with Bill Clinton.

Numerous displays of sexism that ended up tiring Veronica Lario, his second wife, who did not hesitate to send a public letter to the well-known Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’: “I publicly demand an apology from my husband and the public man, not having received it privately”, which became a scandal public. Although the straw that broke the camel’s back was the presence of the politician at the young woman’s eighteenth birthday party Naomi Letizia in 2008. After this, Verónica Lario decided to end her marriage: “I cannot stay with a man who frequents minors,” she said then, calling him “sick” and “pig.”

Soon after, he began a romantic relationship with Francesca Pascale, president of her fan club. A brief and stormy romance that ended ten years later with an annual pension of one million as “maintenance” for the television presenter.

Since 2020, the tycoon had been dating the also politician and member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for ‘Forza Italia’, martha fascinates, 53 years younger than him. In March 2022 he celebrated a ‘symbolic marriage’ with her. A party without legal value but that represented the will to seal a union, without it being necessary to end in marriage. On her day, it was said that the wedding ceremony was not held due to “family matters.” And it is that in the complex and large Berlusconi family there are five children and fifteen grandchildren to divide the inheritance of the fifth richest man in Italy, valued at 6,700 million euros, according to the magazine ‘Forbes’ in 2022. «The love relationship, The esteem and respect that binds me to Mrs. Marta Fascina – Berlusconi wrote at the time – is so deep and solid that there is no need to formalize it with a marriage ».

sex parties

The famous “bunga bunga” is known to all, words with which Berlusconi referred to the erotic rites at his private parties. For the Grazioli Palace in Rome, gift of putin, and dozens of young people and prostitutes passed through his Villa Certosa mansion in Sardinia. At these parties the young Moroccan was captured Karima El Mahrougknown as Ruby ‘heart stealer’, who had sexual relations with the politician when she was only 17 years old. In the trial held against the former Italian prime minister for crimes of prostitution of minors and abuse of power, the young woman denied having slept with him and the president was acquitted after assuring that she was not aware of the age of the Moroccan.

That same year, a young Italian revealed to the newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’ that she received money for attending Berlusconi parties and that they proposed to him to enter the lists for the European elections. The Italian defended himself by stating that there was a conspiracy by the left-wing press to discredit him.

The then Italian Prime Minister made it clear that scandals did not affect him and assured that he was “proud” of his way of life: “I am a unique host, I would say unrepeatable, happy and full of life: I love life and women”, declared after being accused of prostitution to minors in the Ruby case. “I have a terrible life, with inhuman schedules,” thus arguing that from time to time he had “need a relaxed evening as mental therapy to cleanse the brain of all worries.”