Silvio Berlusconi
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 Silvio Berlusconi facts

• Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and has owned the Italian football club AC Milan since 1986
• 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 2016, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 188th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$7.1 billion
• In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination in Italian politics
• 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 the 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 of G8 Summit hosting (having hosted it in Italy three times)
• 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
• On 1 August 2013, he was convicted of tax-fraud by the final appeal instance, Court of Cassation (of which three years are automatically pardoned) along with a public office ban for two years