Controversies surrounding Silvio Berlusconi

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died.

The 86-year-old billionaire and media mogul died at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italian media reported.

Berlusconi first came to power in 1994 and led four governments until 2011.

Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister who reshaped Italy's political and cultural landscape while fending off multiple legal and sex scandals, has died aged 86, his spokesman confirmed to AFP Monday.

The words of the former Italian Prime Minister, who was legally sentenced to prison, and is now the leader of the party he founded, which is part of the winning right-wing coalition, were uttered yesterday, during a closed meeting with the newly elected Forza senators in the Palazzo Montecitori.

Italy prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a Moroccan model who testified in one of the inquiries linked to ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will run in the European Parliament election in May, he announced Thursday.

"At my lovely age, I've decided out of a sense of responsibility to head for Europe where there is a lack of deep thinking about the world," said Berlusconi, 82, in Sardinia on the first stop of his campaign tour, POLITICO EU reported.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi claims he is ‘a born seducer’ in a new biography.

In My Way: Berlusconi in His Own Words, by journalist Alan Friedman, the 79-year-old billionaire, renowned for his sex parties, has claimed that ‘more than a great seducer, I have been very often seduced’.

Silvio Berlusconi was "only joking" when he said that President Vladimir Putin had offed him the position of Russia's economy minister.

This is what the former Italian prime minister's spokeswoman told the media on Friday.

Silvio Berlusconi’s bunga-bunga party chats have revealed even more spicy details.

Silvio Berlusconi, the disgraced former Italian prime minister, will not have to serve the final 45 days of a one-year community service order he received for tax fraud, a judge ruled Feb. 2.
      
Media tycoon Berlusconi, 78, has been serving the order by helping out with Alzheimer's patients at the Cesano Boscone care home near Milan every Friday since last May.