Rome
After having sold the AC Milan club and the Mondadori women's magazines, the Berlusconi family is today selling
Il Giornale
, which it had controlled since the end of 1977. In order for Silvio Berlusconi to be able to keep a foothold in the house, his brother Paolo Berlusconi will nevertheless retain 30% and a place on the board of directors.
But the family thus cedes 70% of the Italian daily to Antonio Angelucci, 78, an entrepreneur also committed to right-wing politics.
A sale imposed on Silvio Berlusconi by his children, Marina and Pier Silvio, who for years have considered the dancer, who has never made any money and whose paid circulation has fallen to 29,000 copies, decidedly too expensive.
The sale would have been made, it is said, at a price of 20 million euros.
It is a real page of history that is turning, so much since 1994
Il Giornale
, then distributed in 155,000 copies, has never ceased to put itself entirely at the service of the political career of Silvio Berlusconi and his party...
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