Silvio Berlusconi's will, which ANSA
has seen, has given the late ex-premier and media billionaire's
two older children, Marina and Pier Silvio, combined control of
the Fininvest family holding company,.
The will, which was opened on Wednesday, sees the combined
stakes of the two children from the media billionaire's first
marriage rise to 53%, with both having equal parts.
The rest of the holding is split between the three children from
Berlusconi's second marriage, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi
Berlusconi.
Marina Berlusconi is chairman of Fininvest and Pier Silvio
Berlusconi is the CEO of Mediaset.
The will leaves no one in sole control of Fininvest SpA, Marina
Berlusconi said in a statement in the name of all five
siblings.
"Having received the last will and testament of our father
Silvio Berlusconi, Marina, Pier Silvio, Barbara, Eleonora and
Luigi Berlusconi inform that no subject will exercise overall
individual indirect control of Fininvest SpA, previously
exercised by the father himself," the statement said.
"The notary who read out the will is implementing the related
legal requirements in the coming hours".
Berlusconi left 100 million euros to his brother Paolo and
another 100 million euros to his last partner, 33-year-old Marta
Fascina.
He left 30 million euros to his former aide Marcello Dell'Utri.
Dell'Utri, a former Forza Italia Senator, served four years in
jail and another under house arrest for a 2014 conviction for
external involvement in mafia association.
Berlusconi died last month after the age of 86 after a battle
with leukaemia.
He expressed his love for his children in a letter in the will.
"Thank you, so much love to all of you, your father," said the
letter with instructions regarding the bequests to Fascina and
Dell'Utri.
The letter was dated January 19, 2022, before a spell in Milan's
San San Raffaele hospital.
"If I should not return, please take not of the following," it
read.
The decisions regarding Fininvest, on the other hand, were taken
in October 2006.
Berlusconi was estimated to have had a net worth of over six
billion euros at the time of his death.
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