Silvio Berlusconi, who died on June 12 at the age of 86, bequeathed 100 million euros to his last companion Marta Fascina, aged 33, according to his will made public on Thursday. Marta Fascina, whom Berlusconi called “my wife” even though they were not married, is also a member of the Forza Italia party founded by the billionaire. Loved or hated, this assumed lover of women much younger than him, including call girls, has been involved in a myriad of lawsuits related to sulphurous and controversial receptions.
His last companion benefits from an important but altogether modest legacy compared to the heritage of Silvio Berlusconi, estimated by Forbes at 6.4 billion euros and the bulk of which will go to his five children from two marriages, to whom the will has was read on Wednesday and the content of which was made public by the Italian agency Ansa. The provisions concerning his multiple real estate properties or his yachts were not immediately known.
An addition in January 2022
Born from the media magnate’s first marriage to Carla Dall’Oglio, Marina and Pier Silvio Berlusconi will together have a 53% share in the family holding company Fininvest, a financial source told AFP after the opening of his will. The other three children, Luigi, Eleonora and Barbara, from the second marriage with ex-actress Veronica Lario, will together control the remaining 47%. Silvio Berlusconi made these arrangements for Fininvest in 2006 just before being hospitalized in Milan.
Berlusconi, whose origins of fortune remain shrouded in mystery, also leaves 100 million to his brother Paolo, as well as 30 million euros to his sulphurous friend and partner Marcello Dell’Utri, co-founder of Forza Italia, who made prison in the 2010s for playing the role of intermediary between Berlusconi and Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, in the 1970s.
The provisions concerning Marta Fascina and Marcello 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 shown them and that which they carried me. »