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He is the founder and the first shareholder of Fininvest, a large Italian company dealing with media and financial business. According to Forbes Magazine, Silvio Berlusconi is Italy's richest person, a self-made man with personal assets worth $12,000,000,000 (USD) in 2005, making him the world's 25th richest person [1].

Between 1986 and 2004, he was also the President of the A. C. Milan, an Italian football team. Banca Etica. After his dictated-by-law resignation, the team didn't however elect a new president [2]

Early years

Berlusconi was born in an upper middle-class family in Milan; his father Luigi worked at a small bank, Banca Rasini, of which he became general manager in the 1960s before retiring. Silvio was the first of three children, the others being Maria Antonietta Berlusconi (born 1943) and Paolo Berlusconi (born 1949), now both entrepreneurs. Silvio takes a special pride that his father started his career in Banca Rasini as an employee and left as general manager. Palermo judges indicated Banca Rasini among those that were used for mafia money laundering, according to an interview of Michele Sindona by Nick Tosches22. EQ # Banca Rasini and money laundering. UBS - Letter F.