2023-06-12 10:51:36
Silvio Berlusconi, the media magnate who ruled Italy for nine years, died at the age of 86 from leukemia, his entourage told AFP.
Nicknamed “the immortal” for his longevity in politics, the senator and businessman, who has deeply marked the political landscape of his country, was again admitted on Friday to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan where he stayed from multiple times.
He had been hospitalized for checks after leukemia
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, treated for leukemia, was hospitalized Friday in Milan for planned checks, his doctors said on Friday.
Silvio Berlusconi “is currently hospitalized at San Raffaele for planned examinations” and related to his leukemia, said doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri in a press release. They specified that this hospitalization “is not linked” to an urgent situation or an acute problem.
“These checks were already planned, they were simply anticipated by a few days”, indicated for his part Antonio Tajani, deputy Prime Minister and number two of his party Forza Italia, quoted by the Askanews agency.
One of the richest men in Italy
Nicknamed “the immortal” for his longevity in politics and one of the richest men on the peninsula with a fortune valued by Forbes at 6.4 billion euros, Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized several times in recent years.
In January 2022, he had stayed at the San Raffaele to treat a urinary tract infection. The previous April, he had also been hospitalized for more than three weeks for “sequelae of Covid-19” which he had contracted in September 2020.
He had undergone major open-heart surgery in 2016, then an operation to treat an intestinal obstruction in the spring of 2019. In 1997, he had been operated on for a malignant tumor in the prostate.
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