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Veronica Lario (born Miriam Raffaella Bartolini, 19 July 1956) is a former Italian actress and the former wife of ex-
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Biography

Born in
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, Lario was a stage actress under
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, with whom she had a love affair. She also worked in theatrical plays with well-known actors; Her most famous role is in ''
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. She retired from acting after meeting Silvio Berlusconi. Married on 15 December 1990, Berlusconi and Lario have three children together:
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(1984),At this time Silvio Berlusconi was still married to Carla Elvira Lucia Dall'Oglio, from whom he was divorced in 1985. Eleonora (1986), and Luigi (1988). In the 1980s, before the birth of their first-born daughter Barbara, Lario terminated an earlier pregnancy with an
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, in order not to give birth to a child affected by significant
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. As the wife of the Italian premier, Veronica Lario chose to maintain a low public profile. She avoided most public events and meetings and she seldom accompanied her husband Silvio Berlusconi at official meetings. On the other hand, she was known to publicly express political opinions contrasting with those of her then-husband (for example, on
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or in backing protesters demonstrating against the war in Iraq). Lario's husband was never shy about mentioning her on public occasions, and he alluded at least once to a supposed affair between her and philosopher and opposition politician
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.While the supposed affair was only mentioned in gossip tabloids, on October 2002, during a press conference with
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prime minister
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, Silvio Berlusconi said he ought to introduce his wife to Rasmussen, "the best-looking prime minister in Europe and certainly more handsome than Cacciari". See als
the Guardian
on this episode.
On 31 January 2007, Lario said her dignity had been damaged by comments Berlusconi reportedly made during the VIP party after a TV awards ceremony broadcast by one of his channels. "If I weren't married I would marry you immediately," the 70-year-old media mogul told showgirl and future parliamentarian
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, according to reports widely carried in the Italian press. He reportedly told another, "With you, I'd go anywhere." Lario's letter appeared in ''
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'', a nationally prominent newspaper. She declared:
I see these statements as damaging my dignity. To both my husband and the public man, I therefore demand a public apology, since I haven't received any privately. I have faced the inevitable contrasts and the more painful moments that a long conjugal relation entails with respect and discretion.
"Now I write to state my reaction," added Lario, saying her husband's comments were "unacceptable" and could not be reduced to mere jokes. But after a few hours, Silvio Berlusconi responded with a public letter to his wife and apologized for what he had said three days earlier. In April 2009 she once more published an open letter, criticising her husband for consorting with young ladies and defining his chosen candidates for the European Parliament as "shameless rubbish". On 3 May 2009 it was reported that she was to file for divorce, which under Italian law can only be started after a couple has reached a separation agreement. On 10 May 2010 it was revealed that a separation settlement had been reached, with Berlusconi accepting alimony payments of €3.6 million per year, and allowing her to live in their luxury home near Milan. In December 2012, a Milan court established that
Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...
would be required to pay his ex-wife Veronica Lario €3 million a month (€36 million a year). In 2015 on 23 June 2015, the Court of Justice of Milan established that
Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...
would pay his ex-wife €1.4 million a month. Finally in 2017, on 16 November, the Court of Appeal of Milan decided that Silvio Berlusconi will not have to pay the €1.4 million per month to his ex-wife, who has been ordered to give back the amounts she received since 2014: approximately €60 million.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lario, Veronica 1956 births Living people Spouses of prime ministers of Italy Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Actors from Bologna Berlusconi family Italian stage actresses 20th-century Italian actresses