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Berlusconi’s Death Puts Italy’s Future in the Hands of Two Women
Eldest daughter Marina and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni get a lift from the demise of the media mogul turned politician.
Berlusconi.
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It was a scene worthy of Succession. Silvio Berlusconi’s five heirs hurried to a private hospital in Milan to bid farewell to their ailing father, who had shaped Italy like no one else in its tortured postwar history.
His 33-year-old girlfriend, Marta Fascina, was already there, having spent the night at his bedside. Fascina, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, exercises tremendous influence over Berlusconi’s political party, Forza Italia.