The Life and Trials of Gianfranco Fini: From Political Heights to Legal Challenges

The Life and Trials of Gianfranco Fini: From Political Heights to Legal Challenges
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Monday 18 March 2024, 19:05 - Last updated: 18 April, 11:34

What is Gianfranco Fini doing now? After a long period of absence, the former Speaker of the House has returned to TV, guest-starring on Lucia Annunziata's program. On this occasion, he talked about some advice he had given to Giorgia Meloni. The former Speaker of the House was one of the pillars of the center-right led by Silvio Berlusconi, joining forces in 2008 with Forza Italia to create the People of Freedom, from whose ashes the current Brothers of Italy were born.

Elisabetta Tulliani, who is Fini's partner: the relationship with Gaucci (father and son), the Enalotto win, the job in TV

The Trials

Eight years in prison. This is what the Rome Prosecutor's Office has requested for the former Speaker of the House Gianfranco Fini, charged along with his partner Elisabetta Tulliani, for the opaque transaction in 2008 of an apartment in Monte Carlo, left in inheritance by Countess Annamaria Colleoni to the National Alliance. Prosecutors Barbara Sargenti and Maria Teresa Gerace have called for a 9-year sentence for the former secretary of AN's partner, and 10 years for his brother Giancarlo Tulliani. Five years were requested for the father Sergio. In the trial, the only crime contested is money laundering after the judges of the fourth collegiate section had declared the charge of criminal association to be statute-barred in the hearing of February 29, last year, a charge contested to other defendants but not to Fini. The judges' decision is tied to the exclusion of the transnational aggravating circumstance.

Private Life

In the eighties, he met Daniela Di Sotto, then wife of Sergio Mariani, a friend and executive of the party. Mariani would attempt suicide shortly after. Mrs. Di Sotto separated from her husband to unite with Fini. In 1985, Giuliana, their only daughter, was born. Three years later, they married in a civil ceremony. In June 2007, Fini announced his separation from his wife. After the separation, his relationship with the lawyer Elisabetta Tulliani was made public. From the relationship, daughters Carolina (on December 2, 2007) and Martina (on October 10, 2009) were born.

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