Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995,2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013;a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 until his death in 2023,and previously from March to November 2013;and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022,and previously from 1999 to 2001. With a net worth of US$6.8 billion as of June 2023,Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death.
Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli was an Italian journalist,historian,and writer. He was one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute. A volunteer for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and an admirer of Benito Mussolini's dictatorship,Montanelli had a change of heart in 1943,and joined the liberal resistance group Giustizia e Libertàbut was discovered and arrested along with his wife by Nazi authorities in 1944. Sentenced to death,he was able to flee to Switzerland the day before his scheduled execution by firing squad thanks to a secret service double agent.
Trials and allegations involving Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023) have been extensive and include abuse of office,bribery and corruption of police officers,judges and politicians,collusion,defamation,embezzlement,extortion,false accounting,mafia,money laundering,perjury,tax fraud,underage prostitution influence and witness tampering.
Elisabetta Canalis is an Italian actress and showgirl.
Maria Elvira "Marina" Berlusconi is an Italian businesswoman. She is the current chairwoman of the holding company Fininvest and the publishing company Arnoldo Mondadori Editore,the latter being the biggest publishing company in Italy. She is the oldest daughter of businessman and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The People of Freedom was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list,including Forza Italia and National Alliance,on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later transformed into a party during a party congress on 27–29 March 2009. The party's leading members included Angelino Alfano,Renato Schifani,Renato Brunetta,Roberto Formigoni,Maurizio Sacconi,Maurizio Gasparri,Mariastella Gelmini,Antonio Martino,Giancarlo Galan,Maurizio Lupi,Gaetano Quagliariello,Daniela Santanchè,Sandro Bondi,and Raffaele Fitto.
Maria Rosaria "Mara" Carfagna is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model. After obtaining a degree in law,Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006. From 2008 to 2011,she served as Minister for Equal Opportunity in Berlusconi IV Cabinet. In 2018 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Deputies. In 2021,she has become the Minister for the South and territorial cohesion in the cabinet presided by Mario Draghi.
Elisabetta Gregoraci is an Italian fashion model and TV personality.
Bruno Paolo Vespa is an Italian television and newspaper journalist. A former director of the Italian state-owned TV channel Rai 1's news programme TG1,Vespa is the founding host of the programme Porta a Porta,which has been broadcast without interruption on RAI channels since 1996.
New Italy Foundation is a national and socially-conservative think tank in Italy.
Maria Elisabetta Alberti,known by her married name as Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati,is an Italian lawyer and politician,serving as Minister fo Institutional Reforms since 2022. She was President of the Italian Senate from 2018 to 2022. She was the first woman ever to have held this position. Casellati is a long-time member of the liberal-conservative party Forza Italia and served as Undersecretary of Health and Justice in previous governments. In 2022,she was nominated as candidate for President of Italy by the centre-right coalition.
Cantiere Popolare is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy,based in Sicily.
Barbara Berlusconi is an Italian business executive. She is advisor to the board of Fininvest and previously sat on the board of directors of A.C. Milan as vice-chairman and CEO.
Forza Italia is a centre-right political party in Italy,whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism,Christian democracy,liberalism and populism. FI is a member of the European People's Party. Silvio Berlusconi was the party's leader and president until his death in 2023. The party has since been led by Antonio Tajani,who had been vice president and coordinatior and now functions as secretary. Other leading members include Elisabetta Casellati.
Michaela Biancofiore is an Italian politician.
The Conservatives and Reformists was a broadly conservative and,to some extent,Christian-democratic and liberal political party in Italy,led by Raffaele Fitto.
Elena Ethel "Elly" Schlein is an Italian politician who has been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) since 12 March 2023. She is a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies and was previously the vice-president of Emilia-Romagna and a member of the European Parliament. On 26 February 2023,she was elected as the new secretary of the PD with 54% of the vote,becoming the first woman to lead the party.
Soleil Anastasia Sorge is an Italian-American model,television presenter,television personality,showgirl and columnist of American origins by her mother and Italian by her father.
Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is an Italian football referee.
On 12 June 2023,former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi died at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan,aged 86,due to complications from a severe form of chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia. On the same day,the Italian government announced a state funeral and proclaimed a national day of mourning for 14 June.
