Former Italian Prime Minister, former AC Milan president, Monza’s current president Silvio Berlusconi has died aged 86 following a tough battle with leukaemia.
The billionaire media mogul, 86, was dashed to Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital on June 9.
He was admitted into hospital with heart problems and shortness of breath.
The former prime minister had been hospitalised for a second time in the same hospital from which he was discharged on 19 May after spending 45 days in the facility.
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The Forza Italia leader was hospitalised with pneumonia after a diagnosis of blood cancer.
He underwent intensive therapy to battle the disease, but to no avail.
Berlusconi served as Italy’s Prime Minister on three occasions, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. He was also known as a “playboy PM”, the party-loving billionaire was famous for his sex scandals and eyebrow-raising jokes.
The 86-year-old, who owned AC Milan between 1986 and 2017, bought Monza in 2018.
Under Berlusconi, AC Milan won 7 Serie A titles and 5 UCL champions; and Monza also promoted to Serie A in 2022.
Berlusconi proved old habits died hard last year after promising his Monza players a “bus full of prostitutes” if they beat AC Milan or Juventus.
