Paolo Berlusconi (born 6 December 1949) is an Italian businessman. He is the younger brother of the former Italian prime minister

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. He is the publisher of the newspaper ''

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'' and the head of the investment group Paolo Berlusconi Finanzaria.

Personal life

Paolo Berlusconi is the third child in a

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Milan family and the younger brother of

. He has four children, two from his first marriage with Mariella Bocciardo (Alessia and Luna Roberta), and two from his second marriage with Antonia Rosa (Davide Luigi and Nicole). In 1996, he divorced his second wife and from 2000 he had a relationship with the model Katia Noventa and from 2001 to 2006 with the showgirl

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Career

In 1990, an Italian law was passed that prohibited the simultaneous ownership of a newspaper and a television station (the Mammi Law). Thereafter

, owner of three television channels and the daily ''

'', ceded control of the newspaper to his brother Paolo. Silvio kept a minority interest through the

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group. , Paolo is still the co-owner of Società Europea di Edizioni, the publisher of ''Il Giornale''. Since the early nineties, the Paolo Berlusconi Finanziaria S.r.l (PBF) bought part of

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as well as directly investing in various other sectors such as construction (Italcantieri), real estate (gruppo Edilnord), textile (Zambieti) and media (Solari.com S.r.l). In 2011, PBF strengthened its influence in the publishing sector by acquiring a majority share of the newspaper ''

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'', taking over the 38% of the shares held by

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, the second wife of Silvio Berlusconi. On 3 February 2013 Paolo Berlusconi, in his capacity as vice-chairman of

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, appeared to be caught on video referring to footballer

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in racially derogatory terms. Berlusconi claimed the remarks were meant to be affectionate and not derogatory.

Judicial inquiries

In 2002, Paolo Berlusconi was charged with

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and

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for his involvement as head of Simec in a landfill scandal in

Cerro Maggiore Cerro Maggiore (Legnanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan. On 25 August 1946 Benito Mussolini's corpse was hided in the town, remaining here until 30 Aug ...

near Milan. He was conditionally sentenced to one year and nine months in prison and fined a sum of 49 million euro. In June 2009, Paolo Berlusconi and the S.E.G. (Societa Europea

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) had to pay 4.5 million euro in compensation and 150,000 euro in legal fees to the commune of

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. On 12 January 2010, he was sentenced to 4 months in prison for falsifying invoices.

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