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Date of Birth
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29-September-1936
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Place of Birth
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Milan
(Lombardy, Italy, Province of Milan)
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Nationality
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Italy, Kingdom of Italy
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Also know as
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The Knight, Berlusca, Nano, Unto dal Signore, Il Cavaliere, Sua Emittenza, Psiconano, Il Caimano, Papi, il Cavaliere, Il Cavaliere, Berlusca, Berlusconi, Papi, Psiconano
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Profession
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Politician, Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Media proprietor, Film Producer
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Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media tycoon, frequent criminal defendant and convicted tax evader who served three times as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owner of the Italian football club A.C. Milan since 1986. He is nicknamed Il Cavaliere for his Order of Merit for Labour. In 2013, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 194th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$6.2 billion. In 2009 Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination in Italian politics.
Berlusconi was Prime Minister for nine years in total, making him the longest-serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy, and the third longest-serving since the Unification of Italy, after Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti. He was the leader of the centre-right party Forza Italia from 1994 to 2009, and its successor party The People of Freedom from 2009 to 2013. Since November 2013, he is acting as the current leader of a revived Forza Italia.
After serving nearly 19 years as member of the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's lower house, after the 2013 general election he became a member of the Senate.
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