UNCOVERED: 4 | History Defined

Berlusconi's final will divvies up 5 billion euros in wealth; eldest children control media empire

Silvio Berlusconi has left control of his media empire to his two eldest children

The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2023

Silvio Berlusconi leaves €100m to partner Marta Fascina in his will

Three-time Italian prime minister leaves overall control of family holding company to two eldest children

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2023

How ‘La Grande Bellezza’ captured Italy’s Berlusconian era

Silvio Berlusconi, a leading figure on the Italian right, died on 12 June. His career was marked by a series of public and private scandals and by the school of thought that it gave rise to, “Berlusconism”. Many an Italian film has attempted to capture it since the 1990s.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2023

Silvio Berlusconi: Trump before Trump?

Berlusconi was a fake outsider selling fake populism and a path toward fascism — but still, there are differences

Salon · Jun 18, 2023

‘He was a tremendous man’: will Berlusconi’s party still get the votes without him?

In Milano 2, the swish housing estate that launched a scandal-ridden career, residents are still grateful to the former PM. Whether they will vote for Forza Italia is a different matter

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023

For Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi was shrewd, capable and true to his word. For others, not so much

Blair has joined in the praise for Italy’s former prime minister, a man who was as sad as he was repulsive

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023

Time’s up for Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi – but the damage they have caused lives on

Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi are the stars of rightwing populist melodramas. Real people with real-world problems are more deserving of attention

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023

Italy bids farewell to Silvio Berlusconi, but remains in his shadow

Italy held a national day of mourning for Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Mussolini, after his death this week. Thousands turned out for his state funeral – but the country is far from united on the man who remade Italian politics in…

Radio France Internationale · Jun 17, 2023

To save their own skins, Trump and Johnson are destroying something precious: our faith in the law

Both men sing from the Berlusconi songsheet, denouncing charges against them as partisan attacks while we pay the price, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

Berlusconi aides vow after his death to reinvigorate political party he created, fight his battles

The top official in former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party has vowed to reinvigorate the political party created by the late media mogul

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023