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{{Villain_Infobox|Box title = | {{Villain_Infobox|Box title = Silvio Berlusconi|Image = Silvio Berlusconi.jpg|fullname = Silvio Berlusconi|alias = Il Cavaliere |origin = Milan, Italy|occupation = Prime Minister of Italy (1994 - 1995; 2001 - 2006; 2008 - 2011)|skills = Political skills<br>Business skills|hobby = Making inflammatory remarks|goals = Become a successful businessman (succeeded)<br>Become Prime Minister of Italy (succeeded three times)<br>Stay in power (failed)<br>Return to power (failed twice in 1996 and 2013)|crimes = Corruption<br>Tax fraud<br>Bribery<br>Adultery<br>[[Rape]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Homophobia]]|type of villain = Corrupt Prime Minister}} | ||
{{Quote|I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.|Silvio Berlusconi, May 2006}} | {{Quote|I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.|Silvio Berlusconi, May 2006}} | ||
'''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 served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from July 2019 until his arrest. | '''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 served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from July 2019 until his arrest. | ||
==Background== | |||
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 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. | ||
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