Berlusconi and Covid-19

Thursday, 3 September 2020. 83-year old - almost 84, actually - former PM Silvio Berlusconi is admitted to Milan’s hospital having tested positive to Covid-19 and apparently suffering from double pneumonia. He had been hanging about with friends (who also tested positive to the virus) without wearing a mask.

Silvio Berlusconi, whose 84th birthday is now three weeks away, was tested positive for Covid-19 last Wednesday, after holidaying in Sardinia. Due to his age, last Thursday he was admitted to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, where a virus-related ‘mild’ lung infection has been diagnosed (earlier Berlusconi’s doctor, Dr Zangrillo, stated that an asymptomatic Berlusconi was quietly isolating in his home in Arcore). According to Berlusconi’s fellow politicians, it’s only “a small precautionary hospitalisation”, rumours about Berlusconi having been checked into intensive care have been denied. 

Flavio Briatore (70) and Silvio Berlusconi (83) met in Sardinia in August 2020 (YouTube)

The swab was administered to the former Italian Prime Minister when he came back from Sardinia, where he met a good friend, Flavio Briatore, a former Formula 1 team manager and businessman who owns the Billionaire nightclub, and who has also been tested positive for the virus. The two, Berlusconi and Briatore, met in Sardinia in August, where photos were taken and neither was wearing a mask. 

Berlusconi's naval accident in Saint-Tropez

Thursday, 13 August 2015. The 78-year old former PM Silvio Berlusconi is victim of an accident while on holiday with his daughter Marina and his grandchildren in south France.

Silvio Berlusconi was trying to get back from terra firma to his yacht, when he – as a captain courageous - banged his head on the canopy of a boat, suffering a slight cut on the forehead and consequent dizziness.

Banga-banga ouch!

The former Italian PM is officially on holiday – with his daughter Marina (her birthday was celebrated last Monday), her husband Maurizio Vanadia and her two sons, Gabriele and Silvio – even though in the meantime he is trying to flog his beautiful villa in Sardinia to some members of the Saudi royal family. 

Berlusconi reveals that Putin has offered him the Russian citizenship and a post as Economy Minister

Thursday, 23 July 2015. During a dinner with Forza Italia's MPs, Silvio Berlusconi reveals that his friend Vladimir Putin offered him the Russian citizenship and the post of head of the Economy Ministry.

The Italian newspaper La Stampa (“The Press”) has gathered information about something quite controversial that the disgraced former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi apparently said yesterday evining, during a dinner at Ristorante Consolini in the district of Testaccio, in Rome.

Is Silvio Berlusconi saying farewell to Italy?

 According to the report Berlusconi arrived at the premises just 5 minutes late, which is exceptionally early for his habits, with a gloomy face, and then sat at a table packed with women, among them the faithful and busty Mariarosaria Rossi, the blonde Micaela Biancofiore (yes, the one of the homophobic remark...), and the lovely Gabriella Giammanco.