Berlusconi's ex wife to attend funeral

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 14 - Silvio Berlusconi's ex wife Veronica Lario is to attend the funeral of the four-time ex premier and media mogul in Milan cathedral on Wednesday, according to the order of the day.
    Lario, 66, who was listed under her real name of Miriam Bartolini, will sit in the last spot in the first row comprising the billioanire's family, alongside the three children she had with Berlusconi: Barbara, Eleonora, and Luigi.
    Lario, a former actress known for having her arm chopped off in Dario Argento's hit shocker Tenebre, met Berlusconi after he was impressed by her topless performance in the play The Magnificent Cuckold, a 1921 work by Belgian playwright Fernand Crommelynck, in Milan in 1980.
    He left his first wife, Carla Elvira dall'Oglio, who gave him his eldest children Marina and Pier Silvio, a few years later and married Lario.
    She left him in 2009 saying she was fed up with the young women he was frequenting and describing his young women candidates for the European Parliament as "shameless rubbish". (ANSA).