Silvio Berlusconi (helpĀ·info) (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and is expected to be appointed President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, a...
Berlusconi grew up in a lower-middle-class Milanese family, but even as a youth he showed entrepreneurial zeal and determination to improve his status. He put himself through college with a variety...
Nicknamed "The Cavalier," he was known for living lavishly while catering to populist tastes in entertainment, for emphasizing his status as a self-made man and promoting himself unabashedly.