Private mass held at Berlusconi residence one month after his death

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Close friends and family gathered at the home of the late former prime minister and centre-right Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday for a private Mass one month after his death.

Crowds gathered outside Berlusconi’s Villa San Martino in Arcore on the day of his state funeral. (Photo: ANSA)

Berlusconi’s eldest daughter Marina, his close friend Marcello Dell’Utri, Monza CEO Antonio Galliani and Mediaset chairman Fedele Confalonieri were among those to attend the service at the chapel at Villa San Martino in Arcore.

Four-times ex-prime minister and media mogul Berlusconi died in a Milan hospital on June 12, aged 86.

He had been readmitted to San Raffaele allegedly for scheduled tests less than a month after spending 45 days there for treatment for a lung infection related to his previously undisclosed chronic leukemia

His stay included 16 days in intensive care.

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