Behind every billionaire there is a story!

Italy’s great survivor

He has slipped down the rankings of the world’s richest, the courts are still in hot pursuit and political obituaries were written when he fainted on stage and slid slowly to the floor just over a year ago. More recently, his successors-in-waiting were impatiently sharpening their knives after he dismissed them as “ectoplasm”.

So even Italians are marvelling at how Silvio Berlusconi, media tycoon and leader of the centre-right opposition, can seemingly be on course for a triumphant return to power at the head of the same old coalition.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/834217e6-d132-11dc-953a-0000779fd2ac.html