Media mogul and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconidied on June 12 at 86 yearsbequeathed 100 million euros (109 million dollars) to his last partner, Marta Fascina, 33 years oldaccording to his will made public on Thursday.
Fascina, whom Berlusconi called “my wife” -even though they were not married-, is also a party deputy Come on Italy founded by billionaire.
Adored and hated, this fan of women much younger than him, including “call-girls,” was implicated in various lawsuits related to sulphurous and controversial receptions.
His latest partner benefits from an important legacy, but modest compared to the businessman’s assets, estimated by Forbes at 6.4 billion euros (almost 7 billion dollars) and that will go essentially to his five children born of two marriagesto whom the will was read the day before and whose content was made public by the Italian agency Ansa.
The provisions regarding his multiple real estate holdings or even his yachts were not immediately known.
The other inheritances
Marina and Pier Silvio Berlusconiborn from the first marriage of the media mogul with Carla Dall’Ogliotogether inherit 53% of the family company Fininvestsaid to Afp a financial source after the opening of your will. The other three children Luigi, Eleonora and Barbaraborn from the second marriage with the exactriz Veronica Lariothe remaining 47%.
Berlusconi had made these provisions in relation to Fininvest in 2006, just before he was hospitalized in Milan.
The family company controls a number of companies, including the television group MediaForEurope (ex-Mediaset)directed by Pier Silvio Berlusconithe editions Mondadori, chaired by Marina Berlusconiand the Mediolanum bank.
Fininvest’s net profit fell 44% to 200.2 million euros (217.6 million dollars) last year, while its turnover remained almost stable at 3.820 million euros (4.153 million dollars).
Thank you. I feel a lot of love for all of you, your fatherBerlusconi’s words for his children in his will
Berlusconi’s will, which dominated Italian political life for decades, was accompanied by a handwritten phrase intended for his children: “Thank you. I feel a lot of love for all of you, your father».
Berlusconi, whose patrimonial origins are still shrouded in mystery, also leaves 100 million euros to his brother Paolo, as well as 30 million euros (32.6 million dollars) to his sulfurous friend and partner Marcello Dell’Utrico-founder of Forza Italia, who was jailed in the 2010s for acting as a go-between for Berlusconi and the Sicilian Mafia Cosa Nostra in the 1970s.
Friends forever
The provisions relating to Marta fascinates already Dell’Utriwritten in black ink and contained in an unsealed envelope, date from January 2022 and are justified as follows by their author: “For the affection that I have had for them and that they have had for me.”
