One of European politics’ most controversial figures, his career was marked by tawdry sex and corruption scandals
Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86
Best known for his perma-tan, gaffes, “bunga bunga” parties and outsized ego, Silvio Berlusconi was a proto-Trumpian populist, the man to beat in Rome for more than two decades, and one of European politics’ most controversial figures.
Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister, Berlusconi, who has died aged 86 according to Italian media, held the job on three occasions, amassing along the way a fortune ranked by Forbes magazine last year as the country’s fourth-biggest.
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