Marina is the eldest daughter of late former PM and media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi.
She claimed “the exact contrary is true in both cases” in a letter to Rome daily La Repubblica published on Wednesday.
“I know that stemming the tide of allegations and leaks is a very difficult practice, if not an impossible one,” Berlusconi wrote in the letter.
“But I cannot continue to tolerate the alleged reports that have no contact whatsoever with reality.”
In the letter to the daily newspaper’s editor-in-chief Maurizio Molinari, Berlusconi responded to a report alleging Silvio Berlusconi’s eldest children, herself and Piersilvio, had a “difficult relationship” with Meloni.
The report also claimed that their father’s longtime aide, Gianni Letta, was helping Marina take steps to make Forza Italia more relevant in relation to Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party.
The article also mentioned a meeting between Berlusconi, Letta and former Italian PM and European central banker Mario Draghi last week.
Berlusconi said La Repubblica “goes as far as describing thoughts and projects I don’t have and never had” in the article.
It “deformed the object of meetings that are part my role and work, turning them into absurd secret talks hiding sci-fi-style political plots,” she also wrote.
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