To whom will Berlusconi’s assets go? who are the heirs

With his death, Silvio Berlusconi leaves a real empire to his heirs. According to Forbes, an asset of around 6.4 billion euros, half of which is represented by shares traded on the Stock Exchange, should be added to this, to be added by investments in various companies, villas and real estate, the Monza football team in Serie A and companies. digital, a yacht and much more.

Berlusconi dynasty: who are the heirs?

It’s a multitude of legacy that Cav has been able to build over time thanks to his skills as a businessman with an interest in construction, media and football. A “treasure” as big as the dynasty of heirs that make up the Berlusconi family: two ex-wives, five children and 16 grandchildren. The eldest of the grandchildren is Lucrezia (Olivia’s mother), 31 years old, daughter of Pier Silvio and sister of presenter Silvia Toffanin’s Lorenzo Mattia and Sofia Valentina. Then Marina Berlusconi has children (Gbriele and Silvio), Barbara has five children: Edoardo, Alessandro, Francesco, Leone and Ettore Quinto. Instead, Eleonora’s three heirs (Riccardo, Flora and Artemisia) are the last of her grandchildren, Luigi’s children (Emanuele Silvio and Tommaso Fabio, born October 2022). His eldest daughters, Marina and Pier Silvio, both born from the union with Carla Elvira Lucia dall’Oglio, are mainly concerned with family matters. An alleged imbalance that caused his second wife, Veronica Lario, to turn their noses up.

Cav’s legacy

According to the Forbes ranking of our 2023 billionaires, Silvio Berlusconi is considered the third richest man in Italy with his assets of $ 6.9 billion. The main coffers of the Berlusconi family are Mfe, which currently holds 48.7% of the voting rights following the possibility of a relocation of headquarters to the Netherlands and a merger with Mediaset España, which should be completed between the summer and autumn of 2023. in parliament. The control is practically armored. Mfe, the company that merges the various spirits of Mediaset, is controlled by Fininvest by 48.2%, while French Vivendi is the second shareholder with 23.35%. Fininvest, on the other hand, is wholly controlled by the Berlusconi family, but has a complex ownership structure: it is shared by seven holding companies, four of which can be directly attributed to Silvio Berlusconi.

Currently, Knight controls 61% of the Fininvest holding, which operates in the television industry with Mediaset and broadcasting with Mondadori. The remaining shares are divided among the children: Marina owns 8% of the shares, is chairman of the holding and heads Mondadori, Pier Silvio owns 8% and is the head of Mediaset. The three children Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi together own 21% of the company. Luigi and Barbara do not have operational duties, but are shareholders of Fininvest and sit on the board of directors. In the past, Barbara was on the board of AC Milan and that experience ended in 2017 with the sale of the Rossoneri club. Berlusconi now owns the Monza team. The date the Fininvest group acquired 100 percent of the club in red and white is September 28, 2018. A project with his brother Paolo Berlusconi as president and Adriano Galliani, a very loyal general manager who was and still is on the Serie A grounds, In the latest tax returns announced, the former prime minister tax declares 50 million euros taxable to its authorities. : The figure announced in 2021 relates to the previous year’s revenue. Along with the taxable total, Silvio Berlusconi’s assets also consist of owned assets such as villas, houses, cars and boats. Among the most famous residences are Villa San Martino in Arcore, the Roman residence of Palazzo Grazioli, summer villas in Sardinia and Lampedusa, and properties abroad.

problem of will

So who will Berlusconi’s legacy actually go to? How will company shares and residences be divided? These are details we don’t know yet. In all likelihood, the children will receive most of the property, but it is not yet clear how the management of the business will move forward and what the power structure of the family unit will be. Pier Silvio could be the head of Mediaset, while Fininvest and Mondadori could go to his daughter Marina, even if the children that the other three children, namely Veronica Lario, are not forgotten. Doubts and questions can only be answered when the last wishes of the former prime minister are announced.

Even if the knight decided to divide everything into equal parts, there would still be a certain inequality, as the shares of Pier Silvio and Marina, who are already higher in themselves, will increase even more. It remains only to wait to learn about Berlusconi’s will.