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On June 12 the former prime minister of Italy and former Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi died at the age of 86. For several years he had been suffering from a serious illness and eventually passed away in the hospital. Many remember Berlusconi not only as a politician, but also as an unrestrained debaucher.
Over the course of his life, Berlusconi was many things: a cruise-ship crooner, a media entrepreneur, Italy's richest man, and its longest-serving postwar leader. Above all, he was a larger-than-life figure who polarised modern Italian society and politics like few before him.
Apart from his impact as a politician, the late Italian ex-PM had a lurid and colourful personal life.
Mr Berlusconi was one of the most extraordinary characters to come out of Italy's often bizarre political landscape, with a string of scandals helping to make him a deeply divisive figure across the country.
Silvio Berlusconi has died aged 86.