Yours for half a BILLION euros: Berlusconi’s Sardinian property on the market

The decadent Sardinian property utilized by Silvio Berlusconi to host the likes of Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair might quickly be yours – for a cool £425million.

The former Italian Prime Minister, media mogul and infamous womaniser died in June aged 86, leaving most of his titanic property to his 5 youngsters – save for 100 million euros earmarked for his 33-year-old lover, MP Marta Fascina.

Now, his youngsters have determined to promote arguably his most prized asset, a sprawling property named Villa Certosa set amid a 110-hectare property on Costa Smeralda on the northeast coast of Sardinia.

Villa Certosa boasts nearly each accoutrement required to fulfill essentially the most demanding celebrity, status-conscious Russian billionaire and even aspiring James Bond villain in the hunt for an inconceivable lair. 

The gorgeous property overlooking the Mediterranean Sea comes geared up with all method of luxurious amenities together with 5 swimming swimming pools, spas, tennis courts, and even its very personal fake amphitheatre.

As such, it turned Berlsuconi’s most well-liked location for internet hosting among the world’s strongest and influential figures, together with former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair – not forgetting his ‘pricey good friend’, Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Blair and his spouse Cherie have been welcomed to Certosa villa with a specially-designed £50,000 firework present which lit up the night time sky with the phrases ‘Viva Tony’.

Putin in the meantime was a daily at Berlusconi’s Sardinian hang-out, having fun with a string of holidays on the sun-kissed coastal jewel from 2003 onward.

A monument to ostentation, the villa stuns any guests with a mock volcano in its grounds, which on the flick of a swap emits the sound of eruption and sends pretend lava cascading out of its cone.

Along with the 5 common swimming swimming pools, Certosa additionally boasts a man-made lagoon, full-size soccer pitch, golf course, and helipad. 

In 2009, when the tycoon was in his ultimate stint as Italy’s chief, it was additionally the scene of a scandal.

Photographs revealed in Spain – he took authorized motion to forestall them showing in Italy – confirmed not simply topless ladies however a unadorned man cavorting by the pool, later recognized as former Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek.

Berlusconi tried to brush it off together with his normal brashness. His friends, he defined, have been having a shower, including: ‘Do you are taking a bathe in jacket and tie?’

For friends for whom discretion was paramount, the villa may very well be accessed through a secret tunnel hollowed out of a cave, permitting guests to disembark from their boats past the gaze of the paparazzi. 

The property was coveted by most of the world’s wealthiest, however Berlusconi reportedly rebuffed any gives irrespective of the worth.

Italian media reported in 2015 that the Saudi royal household provided to pay the €500million asking value – their second unsuccessful try and pry the villa away from Berlusconi.

Now, Berlusconi’s 5 youngsters have reportedly determined to dump most of their father’s actual property, together with the Certosa villa.

But one particular dwelling will stay within the household, in keeping with sources cited by Italy’s ANSA information service late final 12 months. 

Villa San Martino close to Milan – the location of the previous PM’s notorious ‘bunga bunga’ orgies – is to not be bought. 

Bought with the proceeds of his funding in Italy’s development increase of the Sixties, Berlusconi crammed the mansion with Renaissance work and different treasures.

The artworks have been the backdrop to his not-so-family-friendly events, the place a star visitor was a 17-year-old Moroccan-born dancer nicknamed ‘Ruby the Heart Stealer’.

The basement is the place he’s mentioned to have watched showgirls from his personal TV channels providing pole dances and stripteases dressed as nuns – events Berlusconi later described as ‘elegant soirees’.

Now, the mansion serves because the resting place for Berlusconi’s ashes.

‘Villa San Martino should keep alive. We need it to stay the venue for enterprise conferences, in addition to, after all, the assembly level for our household,’ mentioned Berlsuconi’s daughter Marina, who can also be the chair of the household’s holding firm Fininvest. 

‘It is what [my father] would have wished.’

Marina can also be anticipated to keep up possession of Villa Campari, a mansion on northern Italy’s Lake Maggiore, whereas youthful sister Barbara is ready to purchase Villa Macherio close to Milan. 

Among the notable residences up on the market is Villa Grande, located on Rome’s historic Appian Way, as soon as owned by movie and opera director Franco Zeffirelli, and Villa Gernetto, a sprawling residence in Lesmo the place Berlusconi staged his pseudo marriage ceremony to Fascina. 

The Berlusconi youngsters, acutely aware of avoiding household disputes over inheritance, lately signed an accord outlining the distribution of Fininvest.

It is unclear whether or not Fascina – 53 years Berlusconi’s junior – can be granted any of Berlusconi’s former properties. 

The pair by no means formally married, reportedly because of the issues of the Berlusconi household who have been cautious of Fascina attempting to muscle in on the inheritance. 

But Fascina did obtain a tidy sum of €100 million upon her aged lover’s loss of life.