From marriage to Carla Elvira dall’Oglio to Marta Fascina: Silvio Berlusconi’s women and loves

He has never made a secret of his love for women, and this, if you will, was his delight and his cross. In her long life, one of the most exposed in the media of the last forty years, Silvio Berlusconi – who died at the age of 86 on June 12 – spared nothing neither on a political level nor, least of all, on a personal level, choosing to accompany himself with official, unofficial and secret women who brought him to the center of worldly (and judicial) news and who, in economic terms, cost him, as reported by the Courier few years ago, an outlay of at least 75 million euros, of which 46 to his second wife Veronica Lario and 20 to his ex-girlfriend Francesca Pascale, currently linked to the singer Paola Turci. For better or for worse, Berlusconi has always worked hard to ensure that relations end peacefully.

the first wife, Carla Elvira dall’Oglio, shy and reserved, married in 1965 after a year of engagement and mother of his children Marina and Pier Silvio, it is the woman who “suffers” less from the media pressure than the others, even if things begin to change about fifteen years later, with the parallel story of the Knight with Miriam Raffaella Bartolini, better known by her stage name of Veronica Lario, actress 20 years his junior who, according to Berlusconi, manages to strike him “like lightning” during the performance of Magnificent Cuckold at the Manzoni Theater (owned by him). For her, Berlusconi put an end to his marriage to Elvira – it was 1985 – without any fuss but, indeed, with a very civil relationship and a check, if compared to the subsequent ones, quite contained. Thanks to the bond with their children, Silvio and Elvira maintain an exemplary serenity for any former married couple, a point in favor of a turbulent love life is an understatement. The second life of Silvio Berlusconi begins, in fact, in 1990 with marriage to Veronica, from which three children were born: Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi. These were the boom years: television became his second home, football became one of his most profitable investments and his appointment as premier in 1994 strengthened a power that for years had established itself as rapidly as it was overbearing. Lario is his extremely low profile first ladyat least until 2007, when the newspapers tell of Silvio Berlusconi decidedly distracted and obsessed with women.

According to Lele Mora “he loses his head” for Daniela Santanché, but also for Mara Carfagna, which immediately attracts the gossips of the female audience. The voices become more insistent and Lario, in a historic letter written to Republic, breaks the silence for the first time explaining that she wants to protect her “dignity” by asking her husband for a “public apology”. Things calm down for a while, but not for long. Participation in the eighteenth birthday of Noemi Letizia uncovers a Pandora’s box which, in a short time, brings out a circle of very young girls, showgirls and escorts (Patrizia D’Addario above all) which once again leads Veronica to intervene until the request for divorce arrived after the party scandal at Villa Certosa and the case Ruby Heartthrob, passed off as the “granddaughter of Mubarak”. The image-girls called upon to embellish the President’s gallant dinners become a catchphrase on which Lario’s lawyers insist up to a multi-million dollar deal which has found a definitive resolution only in recent years.

After her, the spotlights are all on her new flame, Frances Pascale, a 35-year-old Neapolitan who Silvio Berlusconi met in 2009 at a rally asking for her telephone number. They date, she moves to Arcore and they formalize the relationship in 2012. Among the women who have been next to him, Pascale is certainly the one who exposes herself the most: she talks about civil rights, intervenes in his partner’s political affairs and makes his voice heard until the separation announced in March 2020. To trigger the crisis is Martha Fascina, Calabrian, 30 years old, a past as a collaborator in the Milan press office and his partner during the lockdown period, spent in absolute secrecy. Shy, reserved, Fascina is also the last woman to have been close to the Knight, observing the same reluctance as Carla Elvira, with whom it all began.

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