Silvio Berlusconi Dies: Former Italian Prime Minister Was 86
deadline.comSilvio Berlusconi, the former Italian Prime Minister and media mogul, has died aged 86, according to Italian media reports.
Local press said Berlusconi died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. Berlusconi was a controversial former Italian Prime Minister and media mogul who was a giant of Italian politics and the longest-serving in the post since World War Two.
He served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 2011 and had recently been returned to the Senate of the Republic in the Giorgia Meloni government, leading the centre-right Forza Italia Party.
Berlusconi was the owner of Italy’s largest broadcasting outfit, Mediaset, and his ownership was riddled with scandal. The Milan-born politician’s career was also riddled with other sex scandals and corruption allegations.
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