Former AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi dies aged 86

FOOTBALL: Former AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi dies aged 86

Mark Kinyanjui 12:30 - 12.06.2023

The billionaire businessman transformed Italy’s political landscape and led AC Milan to dominance.

Former AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi, who also served as Italian Prime Minister, has passed away at the age of 86.

The flamboyant media tycoon died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan on June 12, 2023.

Berlusconi was taken into medical care back in April after suffering with a lung infection that was linked to a previously undisclosed case of chronic leukaemia.

In 2016, he had undergone surgery to replace a faulty aortic valve and was hospitalised with Covid in September 2020.

The media tycoon, who led three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011 and whose Forza Italia party is a junior partner in the current ruling coalition, had been suffering from leukaemia for some time.

Berlusconi was one of Italy’s most flamboyant politicians, making a political comeback in 2017 despite a career tainted by sex scandals, countless allegations of corruption and a tax fraud conviction.

He died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where he had spent six weeks this spring undergoing treatment for a lung infection linked to a chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia before being readmitted.

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