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'''Silvio Berlusconi''' (born September 29th, 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. He serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.

Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset, has owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017, and currently owns A.C. Monza since 2018. He is nicknamed ''Il Cavaliere'' (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8.0 billion. In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics, throughout more than twenty years at the head of the centre-right coalition.

Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset, has owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017, and currently owns A.C. Monza since 2018 <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Monza#cite_ref-1</ref>. He is nicknamed ''Il Cavaliere'' (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8.0 billion. In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics, throughout more than twenty years at the head of the centre-right coalition.

Berlusconi was Prime Minister for nine years in total, making him the longest serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy, and the third longest-serving since Italian unification, after [[Benito Mussolini]] and Giovanni Giolitti. He was the leader of the centre-right party Forza Italia from 1994 to 2009, and its successor party The People of Freedom from 2009 to 2013. Since November 2013, he has led a revived Forza Italia. Berlusconi was the senior G8 leader from 2009 until 2011 and he currently holds the record for hosting G8 Summits (having hosted three Summits in Italy). After serving nearly 19 years as member of the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's lower house, after the 2013 general election he became a member of the Senate.

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 '''Silvio Berlusconi''' (born September 29th, 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. He serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
-Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset, has owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017, and currently owns A.C. Monza since 2018. He is nicknamed ''Il Cavaliere'' (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8.0 billion. In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics, throughout more than twenty years at the head of the centre-right coalition.
+Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset, has owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017, and currently owns A.C. Monza since 2018 <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Monza#cite_ref-1</ref>. He is nicknamed ''Il Cavaliere'' (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour, although he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8.0 billion. In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics, throughout more than twenty years at the head of the centre-right coalition.
 Berlusconi was Prime Minister for nine years in total, making him the longest serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy, and the third longest-serving since Italian unification, after [[Benito Mussolini]] and Giovanni Giolitti. He was the leader of the centre-right party Forza Italia from 1994 to 2009, and its successor party The People of Freedom from 2009 to 2013. Since November 2013, he has led a revived Forza Italia. Berlusconi was the senior G8 leader from 2009 until 2011 and he currently holds the record for hosting G8 Summits (having hosted three Summits in Italy). After serving nearly 19 years as member of the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's lower house, after the 2013 general election he became a member of the Senate.