Silvio Berlusconi is the richest man in Italy and the thirty-seventh richest in the world. Owns most of the major television media in his country, and got reliably favorable coverage as he ran for Prime Minister. Convicted of high crimes committed in office, but served no jail time.
Net worth with family $9.4B (Forbes 2008).
[1] Forza Italia.
Father: Luigi Berlusconi
Mother: Rosella
Sister: Maria Antonietta (b. 1943)
Brother: Paolo (b. 1949)
Wife: Carla Dell'Oglio (m. 1965, div., one son, one daughter)
Son: Pier Silvio
Daughter: Marina
Wife: Veronica Lario (m. 1990, sep. 2009, one son, two daughters)
Son: Luigi
Daughter: Eleonora
Daughter: Barbara
Law School: University of Milan, Milan, Italy (1961)
Prime Minister of Italy (8-May-2008 to 12-Nov-2011)
Prime Minister of Italy (11-Jun-2001 to 17-May-2006)
Prime Minister of Italy (27-Apr-1994 to 17-Jan-1995)
Dubya Ranch Hand Jul-2003
Perjury convicted 1990 (covered by 1989 amnesty)
Bribery convicted (reversed on appeal)
Tax Evasion acquitted
Tax Fraud convicted 2012
Corruption convicted 2015
Funeral: Ronald Reagan (2004)
Fainted (26-Nov-2006)
Assassination Attempt 13-Dec-2009 (attacked with a scale model of a cathedral, Milan)
Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer, Sciatica, Pacemaker
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Videocracy (2009) · Himself
Selected albums:
True Love (2011)