Billionaire Silvio Berlusconithree times prime minister of Italy and media mogul seasoned by the rain of scandals, He died this Monday at the age of 86 as a result of leukemia.

Dubbed “immortal” for his longevity in politics, the senator and businessman was admitted to a hospital in his hometown of Milan on Friday and, according to the Italian press, had stopped responding to cancer treatment.

However, his health has already deteriorated significantly in recent years, with open-heart surgery in 2016 and numerous hospital admissions from infections COVID-19 three years ago.

The owner of one of the largest fortunes in Italy, who held the most important political position on the peninsula several times and who for many represented the golden age of the country’s economy.

He was in power from 2001 to 2011, with a two-year break from 2006 to 2008.but his life as a conservative leader was also marked by sexual scandals, legal troubles and beautiful women.

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Berlusconi was married Carla Dall’Oglio, from 1965 to 1985, two children, Marina and Pier Silvio; and with Veronika Lariobetween 1990 and 2010, from whom he had three more Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi. In addition, he was the boyfriend of Francesca Pascalebetween 2012 and 2020, before he met who would be his last official partner, Deputy Marta Antonio Fascina.

The deputy was born in Melito di Porto Salvini, in remote Calabria, in 1990, four years before Berlusconi, then 54, announced his entry into politics after the ruins of a ruling class steeped in corruption.

The young woman grew up near Naples, one of the cities that the magnate loved the most, who declared himself more than once as “a Milanese with a Neapolitan heart”, and would later move to Rome to study literature and philosophy.

Rumors of a friendship between the billionaire politician and the MP surfaced in 2020. They started dating earlier that year, after she won his favor by sending a series of letters that charmed him so much that he dumped his longtime girlfriend. after 12 years.

Pascale, who once said in an interview that she asked Berlusconi to marry her every day, appeared to be taken aback, saying that “amazed” for the statement, the newspaper said Republic.

I will cherish him forever. I wish him all the happiness in the world and I hope he finds someone who will take care of him like I did.said Pascale, who first came to Berlusconi’s attention when she started a fan club for him.

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Fascina graduated in literature and philosophy from Sapienza University in Rome and started working for AC Milan football club as a media officer. At that time the football team was owned by Berlusconi and she would have been in regular contact with him.

She became a superfan of the best Italian team and its owner, and she allegedly had the initials ‘SB’ tattooed on her at that time, writes the Italian newspaper. Il Messaggero.

He began his political career by writing a series of feature articles for newspapers that supported Forza Italia, the party founded by Berlusconi in 1994 when he was elected prime minister.

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In 2013, he registered in his party Narod slobode, and only five years later, in the general elections of 2018., he received his representative rank for the first time. She was elected as a representative in the Campania 1 district.

Her colleagues described her as a “simple but likeable” presence in the Italian parliament, although she rarely voted and did not seek to intervene in the political issues being debated, she says. Daily mail.

Berlusconi and Fascina enjoyed a luxurious ‘festival of love’ on March 17, 2022 at a historic estate called Villa Gernetto in the town of Lesmo, north of Milan. The event resembled a wedding, but the couple did not officially marry due to an inheritance dispute between the families.

Berlusconi’s five grown children are believed to be outraged by their father’s intention to marry Fascina, which would give him a claim to her fortune of more than $6 billion. And according to the Italian press, the MP was ‘insulted and very angry that she did that ‘I don’t have a real wedding.’

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But even though it wasn’t a formal ceremony, Fascina looked like a blushing bride, rocking a floor-length white Antonio Riva French lace gown with a 12-foot train and pulling her long blonde locks into a high bun. The dress is estimated to have cost around $20,000.

During the ceremony, the billionaire reportedly told Fascina: “You complete me, I couldn’t do it without you, you complete my life“. Meanwhile, attendees dined at tables decorated with blue and white flowers, with catering provided by Vittorio, a well-known local restaurant that offers 16-course meals costing up to $346 per person.

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Fascina became the magnate’s faithful companion. According to reports, she was in charge of managing the information given about Berlusconi’s condition and was at the moment of his death, in the hospital room, when the politician’s brother Paolo and his children and heirs arrived.