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Silvio Berlusconi, master populist who dominated Italian politics, dies at 86 Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media tycoon and four-time prime minister who brushed off a litany of legal battles and sex scandals to dominate Italian public life for more than two decades, died in Milan on Monday aged 86. The former Italian prime minister will be given a state funeral on Wednesday, which has been declared a day of national mourning.