Silvio Berusconi was a man who never had fear of defending his convictions, Prime Minister Georgia Miloni said in video tribute on Twitter. For many people he's indelibly remembered as the man behind GAF after GAF, scandal after scandal. Not least the Bunga Bunga sex parties, accusations and an overturned conviction of sex with an underage prostitute. He made himself so much a part of Italy, from media baron to longest serving Prime Minister to football club owner. And above all, a fighter of his enemies, real and perceived, of endless allegations of dodgy dealings of the court proceedings.
Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country’s media—and its economic malaise. Unfettered by the abandoned nuclear deal, Iran is now making its bomb programme unassailable. And bringing the 20th-century idea of “Smell-o-vision” into the 21st.
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