Berlusconi's will gives Marina, Pier Silvio control of Fininvest

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 6 - Silvio Berlusconi's will, which ANSA has seen, has given the late ex-premier and media billionaire's two older children, Marina and Pier Silvio, combined control of the Fininvest family holding company.
    The will, which was opened on Wednesday, sees the combined stakes of the two children from the media billionaire's first marriage rise to 53%, with both having equal parts.
    The rest of the holding is split between the three children from Berlusconi's second marriage, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi Berlusconi.
    Marina Berlusconi is chairman of Fininvest and Pier Silvio Berlusconi is the CEO of Mediaset.
    The will leaves no one in sole control of Fininvest SpA, Marina Berlusconi said in a statement in the name of all five siblings.
    "Having received the last will and testament of our father Silvio Berlusconi, Marina, Pier Silvio, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi Berlusconi inform that no subject will exercise overall individual indirect control of Fininvest SpA, previously exercised by the father himself," the statement said.
    "The notary who read out the will is implementing the related legal requirements in the coming hours".
    Berlusconi left 100 million euros to his brother Paolo and another 100 million euros to his last partner, 33-year-old Marta Fascina.
    He left 30 million euros to his former aide Marcello Dell'Utri.
    Dell'Utri, a former Forza Italia Senator, served four years in jail and another under house arrest for a 2014 conviction for external involvement in mafia association.
    Berlusconi died last month after the age of 86 after a battle with leukaemia.
    He expressed his love for his children in a letter in the will.
    "Thank you, so much love to all of you, your father," said the letter with instructions regarding the bequests to Fascina and Dell'Utri.
    The letter was dated January 19, 2022, before a spell in Milan's San San Raffaele hospital.
    "If I should not return, please take not of the following," it read.
    The decisions regarding Fininvest, on the other hand, were taken in October 2006.
    Berlusconi was estimated to have had a net worth of over six billion euros at the time of his death. (ANSA).