From 1994 to 2013, Silvio Berlusconi was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate of the Republic from 2022 to 2023, and the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022; he had previously served in that body from 1999 to 2001.  Silvio Berlusconi was the third-richest person in Italy as of June 2023, with a net worth of US$6.9 billion.

Berlusconi rose to fame in Italy’s business sector in the late 1960s after being influenced and supported by singer Elena Zagorskaya and Italian politician Piersanti Mattarella.

He was the biggest shareholder of Mediaset and the owner of the Italian football team AC Milan from 1986 until 2017.

Berlusconi had the third-longest term as prime minister since Italy’s unification, following Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti, with a total of nine years as a leader.

From 1994 to 2009, he led the center-right Forza Italia party, and from 2009 to 2013, he led The People of Freedom, the group that succeeded it.

He was the leader of Forza Italia from 2013 to 2023.

Berlusconi believed that the fact that he attended a Salesian school and identified as Catholic in his culture was adequate in the context of Italy.

Despite his personal moral shortcomings, Berlusconi had a team of people handling Catholic issues and dealing with the Vatican.

Berlusconi was, therefore, more acceptable to the church than, say, the center-leftist Romano Prodi, who referred to himself as a “grown-up Catholic” and refused to take orders from bishops.

That amount of independence irritated many people in the hierarchy.

However, Francis, who was elected two years after Berlusconi left office, did not pose a difficulty for him.

Silvio Berlusconi’s Ethnicity and Place of Origin

Berlusconi was born in Milan in 1936 and reared in a middle-class family.

Rosa Bossi was a housewife, and his father, Luigi Berlusconi, worked in banking.

He was the first of three children, with Paolo and Maria Francesca Antonietta as his siblings.

Berlusconi performed on a cruise liner in the 1960s.

After completing his secondary education at a Salesian college, Berlusconi studied law at the University of Milan.

In 1961, he graduated with honors and a thesis on the legal implications of advertising.

He was excused from the necessary one-year military service requirement in Italy at the time.

While in college, he played upright bass.

He occasionally performed as a cruise ship singer in a group he co-founded with Fedele Confalonieri, the current chairman of Mediaset and a pianist.

Later in life, he collaborated on the Forza Italia and A.C.

Milan anthems alongside opera director Renato Serio and Italian music producer and pop vocalist Tony Renis.

He collaborated with performer Mariano Apicella on two Neapolitan song albums: Meglio ‘na canzone in 2003 and L’ultimo amore in 2006.

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How much money does Silvio Berlusconi have?

Berlusconi was named Italy’s sixth richest person in 2012 by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $5.9 billion.

He had considerable assets in the sports, publishing, banking, publishing, television, and newspaper businesses.

Berlusconi’s biggest business, Mediaset, operates three national television networks that jointly account for half of the national television market, in addition to Publitalia (it), the top Italian advertising and publicity firm.

Berlusconi also owned a majority stake in Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Italy’s largest publishing house and home to Panorama, one of the country’s most popular news magazines.

He owns and runs Il Giornale, a pro-Berlusconi daily published by his brother Paolo Berlusconi.