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Died
12 June 2023
Place
Milan, Italy
Field
politics and media (Fininvest, Mediaset, AC Milan) · Politics and government on the timeline
Legal tradition
Italian civil law (forced heirship) · Civil law
Historical event
the succession of Italy's longest-serving postwar prime minister
Religion
Silvio Berlusconi: Catholic (recorded as Catholicism on Wikidata; Italian Roman Catholics on Wikipedia)
Member of
Propaganda Due, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 12th Legislature of Italy, 13th Legislature of Italy, 14th Legislature of Italy, 15th Legislature of Italy, 16th Legislature of Italy, 17th Legislature of Italy (Wikidata)
2015 to 2026NowEuropeItaly

Silvio Berlusconi left €100 million to his 33-year-old partner and €30 million to a friend convicted of mafia ties

Silvio Berlusconi was prime minister of Italy four times and built Fininvest, owner of the Mediaset television group. His will was opened in July 2023. It left his two eldest children, Marina and Pier Silvio, together 53 percent of Fininvest, which gave them control. His three children from his second marriage, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi, received the other 47 percent. Italian law reserves a share of an estate for children, and the split followed that rule. The will left €100 million to his brother Paolo and €100 million to Marta Fascina, his 33-year-old partner, a member of parliament he never legally married. It also left €30 million to Marcello Dell'Utri, co-founder of his party, who served a sentence after a 2014 conviction for external participation in mafia association. Dell'Utri said he was "shocked" and that Berlusconi owed him nothing. The heirs paid the bequests in tranches. Fascina later bought a 250-square-metre house from the children for over €1 million.

What the law took from it

Under forced heirship the children's share is fixed, so control passes through how the company shares are split among them.

Sources
  1. ansa.itPress
  2. observador.ptPress
  3. fanpage.itPress
  4. calcioefinanza.itPress

Cite as: celebrity.estate, “Silvio Berlusconi left €100 million to his 33-year-old partner and €30 million to a friend convicted of mafia ties,” story s552, https://www.celebrity.estate/silvio-berlusconi-2023, updated 30 October 2026.

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