Veronica Lario

Veronica Lario is the stage name of Miriam Raffaella Bartolini ( born July 19, 1956 in Bologna). She is a former Italian actress and was from 1990 to 2010, the second wife of the businessman and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Life and career

Lario played in the 1970s in television productions, and later in films of Dario Argento ( Tenebrae, 1982) and Lina Wertmuller ( The friend of my wife, 1984).

Your film and theater activities gave it up after she met Berlusconi. Lario and Berlusconi have three children, Barbara (1984 ), Eleonora (1986) and Luigi ( 1988). As a woman of Italian Prime Minister Lario mostly stayed in the background and avoided public appearances. She accompanied her husband rarely on official occasions. At the same time it was known that they deviate from their positions her husband's political opinion made ​​public on several occasions. In May 2009, she filed as a result of a political scandal involving former showgirls, which established her husband for the European elections, for divorce.

Veronica Lario holds 38 % stake in the daily Il Foglio.

In October 2013 an appeals court reduced her monthly maintenance claim from 3 to 1.4 million euros.