what we know and the knots to solve – Corriere.it

The Mediaset schedules were presented on Tuesday 4th July, but it will only be made official on 5th July. These dates are not a detail as they represent the last key steps before the opening of Silvio Berlusconi’s will. There is no specific day yet. I think we’ll go to next week, said the president of Mfe and historic friend of Berlusconi, Fedele Confalonieri, on the sidelines of the Assolombarda assembly on Monday 3 July. But after the presentation of the Alfa Romeo’s new programs there should be no other reason to postpone the reading of the Knight’s last will again, kept in the drawer of the notary Arrigo Roveda.

The subdivision of the shares of Fininvest

The heart of the will, as well as the main unknown, concerns the fate of the legitimate share, about 20% of Fininvest, which Berlusconi could have at his disposal for the succession. While the remaining 40% goes automatically to the 5 children, 8% each. This means that the three youngest children, born from the marriage to Veronica Lario, rise to 46% and the two eldest, born from the union with Carla Elvira Dall’Oglio, will together have 32%. In this scenario the fate of Fininvest, the safe that controls Mfe-Mediaset, Mondadori and 30% of Banca Mediolanum, tied to that 20% previously mentioned. Whatever happens, according to Berlusconi’s cronies there won’t be any big surprises. I would rule out any repercussions in the family and on the structure of the companies controlled or participated by Fininvest, said Confalonieri, responding to reporters.

The future of villas and sales hypotheses

The succession will also include a lot of liquidity, villas, paintings, boats and other assets on which various appraisals are underway. With some decisions that would have already been taken by the heirs, such as the future sale of Monza. As far as real estate assets are concerned, a node that must be taken into account is that of management costs. The need to reduce this burden could push the former prime minister’s heirs to sell some properties, such as the villa in Antigua and the Blue Horizon villa in Bermuda, the least frequented by the family. Different speech for Villa La Lampara, on the French Riviera which, as Tommaso Labate recalled on Corriere della Sera, not very far from the villa in Marina. However, there are many unknowns about the fate of the residence in Rome on the Appian Way, which had belonged to Franco Zeffirelli and Villa Gernetto, located in Gerno, a hamlet of Lesmo, in Brianza. And what will become of Villa Certosa, the retreat in the heart of the Costa Smeralda and of the Arcore residence? In the latter, according to rumors, Marta Fascina, the last companion or rather the quasi-wife of the founder of Forza Italia, will continue to live. However, it is probable that Fascina only occupies a part of Villa San Martino, the other in fact seems destined to become a place of memory in which family members and associates intend to keep alive the memory of the former premier, between the cups won by Milan and the famous contract with the Italians signed in the studio of Porta a Porta, the program of Bruno Vespa.

Marta Fascina and Forza Italia

A chapter that arouses particular curiosity is that relating to the bequest for Marta Fascina. It is certain that in the Knight’s will there are provisions in favor of the Forza Italia deputy, with whom he celebrated a quasi-marriage at Villa Gernetto. According to some sources, a check for 100 million euros could go to the deputy. Some expect that Berlusconi may have also given indications on the future of Forza Italia, the party he founded in 1994. And one wonders how much this could affect the future internal dynamics of the party and the role of Fascina, which at the moment is not she seems completely willing to give up her political commitment.