The Berlusconi put up for sale the million-dollar mansion in Sardinia where Aznar, Zapatero, George Bush and Putin visited

The children of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconiwho died last June at the age of 86, decided to put the magnate's real estate assets up for sale, valued between 600 and 700 million euros, with the exception of the Villa de Arcore, on the outskirts of Milan (north), where he lived.

The two older brothers, Marina y Pier Silvio – who control the family company Fininvest – together with Luigi Barbara and Eleonora Berlusconi want to revalue the inherited assets and explore the market to sell at least part of the properties, always except for Villa San Martinoin Arcore, according to local media.

Among the properties put up for sale is Villa Certosa, a 110 hectare estate, with direct access to the Mediterranean Sea, on the beach of Sardinia. Specifically in Costa Esmeralda, the northeastern coast of the island. The property has been put up for sale for 500 million euros, according to the newspaper Finantial Times.

Berlusconi spent the summer at this estate with the most powerful leaders in the world. Among them, the former president of the Government José María Aznarformer US president George W. Bushformer British Prime Minister Tony Blair o Vladimir Putin -The latter was offered to buy the property, but he refused.

Villa Certosa is distributed in 68 rooms. Among its luxurious facilities are several swimming pools, tennis courts, gardens the size of 80 football fields and an amphitheater for 300 people. Curiously, for this property the politician also proposed some eccentricities, like a volcano that could erupt at its parties, a nuclear shelter, a tunnel of stars or an underground passage that led to the sea.

'Bunga bunga': a town of excess

However, this mansion has also been the subject of controversy. In 2009, Berlusconi was photographed there along with former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and other personalities surrounded by several young women who were supposedly minors. All of them were naked, and some of the guests were photographed having sexual relations with them. “I'm going to sell everything, I'm fed up,” the tycoon complained after the scandal came to light, uncovered by The country.

In this sense, the businessman's children have taken Giovanna Rigato, one of the young women who participated in these orgies, meetings that their organizer called 'bunga bunga'. The family claims to have enough evidence to prove that this woman he extorted the billionaire asking for a million euros in exchange for not revealing what was happening on those evenings.

Giovanna Rigato, one of the young women who participated in his orgies. They have reasons to think that this woman He extorted him for a million euros in exchange for not revealing what was happening on those evenings. The former contestant of Big Brother on Italian television, she should have already been tried at the Monza Court in 2023, but Berlusconi's poor health prevented the trial from proceeding. The children have decided to maintain the complaint and appear as a civil party on April 23, scheduled date for the next hearing.

When Zapatero set foot in the mansion “out of courtesy”

Another name linked to the mansion and its dark scandals is that of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In 2009, the then President of the Government of Spain visited the property privately – that is, without photographers, without an official note and without a delegation.

After the bilateral summit in La Magdalena, during lunch, Berlusconi invited Zapatero to have a coffee in his luxurious villa and he agreed, as he later explained to the press, for “reasons of courtesy.” “I always try to correspond with the invitations and agendas of the hosts [y más las] of a prime minister with whom we share a project in the European Union,” explained Zapatero after meeting for an hour and a half at the Elysée with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.