Ex-Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi leaves €100m to girlfriend 53 years his junior
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi left £85million (€100m) to his girlfriend 53 years his junior, Marta Fascina.
The will of the controversial politician was opened on Wednesday, greater than three weeks after his loss of life.
Details have been made public the next day, July 6, and revealed the desire included a handwritten letter by Mr Berlusconi wherein he addressed his 5 youngsters.
Dated January 19 2022, the letter was titled “To my children” and had been penned by the politician and entrepreneur as he was going to a hospital in Milan.
Expressing his want to go away a considerable sum of cash to Ms Fascina, whom he had began courting in March 2020, Mr Berlusconi stated: “I am going to San Raffaele [hospital], and should I not return I plea you to take into account what follows.”
Mr Berlusconi reportedly used to discuss with Ms Fascina as “my wife”, regardless of the pair not being married nor having youngsters.
The 33-year-old has been a member of the Italian Parliament’s decrease chamber because the 2018 common election.
She is a member of Forza Italia, the occasion based by Mr Berlusconi in 1994, when he first entered politics.
Alongside the hundreds of thousands allotted to 33-year-old Ms Fascina, the will even confirmed that Mr Berlusconi had determined in 2020 to go away £85m to his brother Paolo.
The solely individual talked about within the will who was not a member of Mr Berlusconi’s household was his long-time advisor and co-founder of his political occasion, Marcello Dell’Utri.
Mr Dell’Utri, who was given £25.6m (€30m), reacted to the news relating to the desire saying he was shocked, as Mr Berlusconi “owed me nothing”.
In his letter to his youngsters, Mr Berlusconi stated he wished to go away one thing to Ms Fascina and Mr Dell’Utri for “the love I had for them and that they had for me.”
When it got here to the wealth left to his youngsters, Mr Berlusconi’s confirmed the choice he had already taken in 2006.
53 p.c of Fininvest, the holding firm based by Mr Berlusconi in 1978, was given in equal shares to his two eldest son and daughter, Pier Silvio and Marina, Italian news company Ansa, which has seen the desire, stated.
The relaxation has been cut up into equal components amongst all the kids of Mr Berlusconi – Marina, Pier Silvio, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi.
This transfer confirmed hypothesis the politician wished to consolidate the concord amongst his youngsters and the solidity of the group after his loss of life.