The 86-year-old politician, who was hospitalized for leukemia, spent most of his life with his second wife, Veronica Lario, whom he divorced in 2014. Portrait of a mysterious woman.
She describes herself as a “country girl”, one of those who never dreamed of being the “First Lady”. Veronica Lario still shared the daily life of one of the most famous (and controversial) figures in Italian public life, Silvio Berlusconi. During the thirty-year relationship, the former actress and the billionaire, who was appointed three times as the chairman of the Council of Ministers, went through many media storms. Cavaliere’s fiery temper has long contrasted with the reserved character of his second wife, nicknamed “The Invisible Lady.”
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No one knows if Veronica Lario, whose divorce with Silvio Berlusconi caused a stir in 2014, is now at the politician’s bedside. Hospitalized with a lung infection and chronic leukemia, he left intensive care to integrate into a “normal care unit” as described Corriere della Sera, Sunday, April 16. More than a decade has passed since Cavaliere’s forays overcame his love affair with Miriam Raffaella Bartolini, aka Veronica Lario. According to him, he would choose the pseudonym in honor of the American actress Veronica Lake Paris game.
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1956 The young woman, born on July 19, crossed paths with Silvio Berlusconi in 1980. He was one of the most famous entrepreneurs in Milan. He comes from a humble background. As a child, little Miriam plays in the streets of a popular neighborhood and spends Sundays at her grandmother’s making origami. His widowed mother works as a cashier. Years later, Miriam aspires to a great acting career, starting with “love for her fiancé”. The claimant will soon be fired. No one can match the reigning Cavaliers.
For the first time Silvio Berlusconi saw Veronica Lario, according to him, in the Manzoni theater, which he had just acquired. The actress performs in vaudeville, The magnificent cuckold, by Fernand Cromelink and appears bare-breasted for a brief scene. The entrepreneur rushes to join her in the dressing room to declare his love. For her part, Veronica Lario claims that she met him during a dinner in Milan. “Already married, he behaved as if he were single,” he says. I’m sure I met him on that occasion, but he doesn’t remember it.”
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The businessman has been married since 1965 to the very reserved Carla Maria Elvira Dal Oglio, with whom he had two children, Marina and Pier Silvio. This does not prevent him from starting a passionate affair with a blue-eyed actress. Soon Veronica Lario lives in the apartment offered by her lover. The apartment is a few steps away from the headquarters of Fininvest, one of the most important financial holding companies in Italy, controlled by the Cavaliere family.
Veronica Lario sometimes suffers from this secret affair. And then, her acting career falters. He just happens to be in some low budget movies. A cult scene Dark Dario Argento’s feature film (1982), marks the end of his mastery on the big screen. “It is at this moment that the legend of the great vacationer begins,” summarizes Maria Latella in her book. Tendenza Veronicareleased in 2004. Understand, the beginning of a secret existence in the spotlight.
“Flowers, garden, house and children”
The birth of his daughter Barbara in 1984 changed everything. The Cavaliere meets his illegitimate daughter, breaks up with his ex-wife, and formalizes his relationship with Veronica Lario. The couple would have two more children, Eleonora in 1986 and Luigi in 1988. In December 1990, he finally unites in Milan. But four years later, Veronica is disappointed. Silvio Berlusconi’s consuming ambitions pushed him into the political arena. The entrepreneur becomes the chairman of the Council of Ministers. And gradually departs from the one to whom he devoted ardent passion.
When the politician exercises his power in Rome, the mother takes refuge in her villa in Milan. “Flowers, garden, house and children. it’s my life,” he says to the most persistent journalists. Major shareholder of Azh daily newspaper Il Foglio, he leads a most ordinary existence. He walks his children to school every day, cultivates his organic garden, reads Proust and is interested in philosophy. A “model” of a housewife, which Silvio Berlusconi never fails to promote.
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Diamonds and oriental dance
However, tensions are emerging behind the scenes. The father of the family, to put it mildly, is absent. “It’s not just the phone,” Veronica Lario joked one day. Sometimes I see it on TV. If she has sworn to stay away from political life, she does not hesitate to oppose her husband’s decisions, sometimes publicly. In 2005, she announced that she was in favor of easing the law on assisted reproduction, against the advice of the church and Silvio Berlusconi.
It must be said that Veronika Lario overcomes Cavalier’s gaps with difficulty. She gradually drifts away from this humble Don Juan in the wake of several legal cases. Silvio Berlusconi will try to get his wife back on his 50th birthdaye on the latter’s birthday. That day, he gave her a diamond necklace after doing an oriental dance while dressed as a Berber courtier. “I cried about it,” she confided and became emotional.
“The cup is full”
However, a few months later, in 2007, the Italian made another mistake. “If I wasn’t married, I would have married her on the spot,” he said of young MP Mara Karfanya on live television. Veronica Lario demands a public apology, which she eventually receives. However, Silvio Berlusconi is doing it again. One Sunday morning, he excuses himself from an emergency meeting about the waste crisis in Naples to leave their home. The next day, his wife discovers in the press that he went to the birthday party of 18-year-old Naiad Noemi Letizia.
For Veronica Lario, the cup is full. In May 2009, she filed for divorce, “stressed by the behavior” of her ex-companion. The effect is instantaneous. Newspapers flood the accounts of dozens of escort girls who rubbed shoulders with Cavaliere. The main stakeholder both publicly and privately blames his wife, whom he holds responsible for his downfall. To the point of spreading rumors about her alleged affair with the leftist mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacchiari.
In May 2010, the courts forced Silvio Berlusconi to pay his ex-wife a monthly pension of 300,000 euros. On December 28, 2012, the Milan court issued a new verdict. Veronika Lario receives a monthly pension of 3 million euros. The couple’s divorce was finalized on February 18, 2014. Since then “Invisible lady“always keeps it low.” She was only seen a few times on the ski slopes or on the way to school with her grandson Alessandro. A little boy whom “Donna Veronica” humorously assures that he is now “the only man in my life.”
Source: Le Figaro
