«Great man and extraordinary father»- Corriere.it

«Dear Silvio, you have been a great man is one amazing dad for our children. I will always remember the beauty of the years we spent together. An infinite hug». A farewell full of affection that Of Carla Elvira Dall’Ogliofirst wife of Silvio Berlusconi, and mother of his children Marina (1966), the eldest daughter of the Knight, and Pier Silvio (1969).

The couple was married from 1965 to 1985. Withdrawn, very reserved, Dall’Oglio he never granted interviews on the end of the marriage with the Knight and on the figure of Verónica Lario (stage name of Miriam Raffaella Bartolini), a beautiful actress who dazzled him during a performance on the stage of the Manzoni Theatre of Milan (“I heard lightning – he said – but it wasn’t a storm”).

As Paola Di Caro wrote on Seven
, for Veronica, 20 years younger, the former premier moved to Villa Borletti, in via Rovani, in Milan, and closed the marriage with Dall’Oglio, in ’85. From her, no public controversy, no externalization, very few photographs of her, but a relationship that – thanks to her children – continued civilly and without shocks. It is said that, although the legacy after the divorce was quite small, the lady never fought for it get more. On the separation check it seems that she gave her ex-husband only one indication: “Write us what you want”. Then, it was the children who provided for each one over time any needeven spending summers with her in the former premier’s villas, like the one in Bermuda.

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