All Italians want to be like Silvio. This is one of the statements that many political analysts have used to explain the success of Berlusconi (1936-2023). He always smiling, worried about his image, surrounded by beautiful women with money. The true portrait of a playboy.
He began to stand out when he was studying law at the University of Milan. he comments At that time, he already had a business vision and sold his notes to his fellow students. to make money.
business that later They would take him to the real estate sector, to construction and even to television. Channel 5 (Telecinco) was created with him at the beginning of the eighties: it was the beginning of the so-called “trash TV”. Then came the press, magazines, the Mondadori publishing house, sports (Milan)…, a conglomerate with which would land in politics (Forza Italia) and that would lead him to be Prime Minister of Italy up to three times (1994-1995, 2001-2006 y 2008-2011).
A journey in which he was never alone
But in all these years in which he formed his business conglomerate, one of the largest fortunes in the world according to the magazine Forbes, Your Broadcasting he was never alone. Coming from a middle-class family, the eldest son of the Berlusconi (after him Maria Antonietta Francesca would be born, in 1943 (died in 2009) and Paolo, in 1949), he married Carla Elvira Dall’Oglio in 1965, with whom he had two children: Maria Elvira (1966, known as Marina) and Pier Silvio (1969).
After many scandals and infidelities, they divorced in 1985. And then five years Il Cavalieri would formalize his relationship with the actress Veronica Lario, with whom he was the father of three other offspring: Barbara (1984), Eleonora (1986) and Luigi (1988). At the end of April 2009, Lario began divorce proceedings.
few years later, in 2012, he also referred to Francesca Pascale on a television program and two years later rumors of a wedding circulated between them. He was with her until 2020, and then he would come into her life his current girlfriend, Marta Fascinawho was by his side since it was revealed a few months ago that he suffered from leukemia.
But the fact that these were their stable or official partners does not mean that they were the only ones. In fact, a few years ago the italian weekly Today He even published a list of the 131 women who had been related to the magnateof which it was said that they would have received money and favors in exchange for having sexual relations with him.
Among these were names such as those of the Italian actress Manuela Arcurithe featured argentina Belen Rodriguez and the Dominicans Maristell Polanco, Aris Espinoza and Diana González. Also the Brazilians Michelle Conceicao, Iris Berardi and Carolina de Freitas, and the Moroccans Iman Fadil, Maria Makdoum and Karima El Mahorug (known as Ruby). Russian, Romanian and Polish were other of the nationalities of her girlfriends, whose bulk of the list was in Italy.
His polemics
Controversial ad nauseam, Everything has been said about Berlusconi, until he was part of the Propaganda Due Masonic lodge. Prostitutes who came out to talk about his relations with him on television, corruption, relations with the mafia, notorious outbursts, his friendship with Vladimir Putin… He touched all the polemics of the controversy.
Much repercussion had those known as fiestas flower flowerwhich led to the case Rubygate, since one of the minors who attended those parties in the Arcore mansion was Ruby. In 2010, the justice system uncovered the sexual scandal and convicted him of abuse of power and inducing the prostitution of minors. He later he was acquitted.
