Media mogul and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiwho died on June 12 at the age of 86, bequeathed 100 million euros ($109 million) to his last partner, Marta Fascina, 33, according to his will made public on Thursday.
Fascinates, who Berlusconi called “my wife” -although they were not married-, she is also a deputy of the Forza Italia party founded by the billionaire.
Loved or hated, this assumed fan of women much younger than him, including “call-girls,” was implicated in various lawsuits related to controversial and sulfurous receptions.
Modest legacy compared to total estate
His latest partner benefits from an important but modest legacy compared to the businessman’s estate, estimated by Forbes at 6.4 billion euros (almost 7 billion dollars) and that will essentially go to his five children born from two marriages, to those who read the will 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.
Marina and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, born of the media mogul’s first marriage to Carla Dall’Oglio, jointly inherit 53% of the family company Fininvest, a financial source told AFP after the opening of his will. The other three children, Luigi, Eleonora and Bárbara, born from the second marriage with the exactriz Verónica Lario, the remaining 47%.
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Berlusconi he had made these provisions in relation to Fininvest in 2006, just before he was hospitalized in Milan.
The family company controls a series of companies, including the television group MediaForEurope (ex-Mediaset), directed by Pier Silvio Berlusconi, the Mondadori editions, chaired by Marina Berlusconi, and 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).
Berlusconi’s will, which dominated Italian political life for decades, was accompanied by a handwritten sentence addressed to his children: “Thank you. I feel a lot of love for all of you, your father.”
Berlusconiwhose patrimonial origins remain 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’Utri, co-founder of Forza Italia, who was jailed in the 2010s for acting as a go-between between Berlusconi and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia in the 1970s.
The provisions relating to Marta Fascina and Dell’Utri, written in black ink and contained in an unsealed envelope, date from January 2022 and are justified as follows by their author: “For the affection I have had for them and that they have had for me” .
Source: Ambito
