Milan, 1986. Italian billionaire Silvio Berlusconi lands on the San Siro pitch in a helicopter blasting Ride of the Valkyries.

He leads AC Milan to two decades of glory, but behind the suntan and scudettos lurks an empire of sleaze.

Silvio scrapped with Liverpool fans, lured the EU president to a sex party and branded the German chancellor an “unfuckable lardarse”.

And he was still elected Prime Minister three times.

From mafia henchmen to bunga bunga sex parties, welcome to the seedy world of Silvio Berlusconi…

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