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...woes was a civil court ruling on Oct. 3 that may force Berlusconi's family-business holding company to pay a whopping €750 million ($1.1 billion) to archrival businessman Carlo De Benedetti in an 18-year-old case about alleged corruption in the takeover of the Mondadori publishing house. (Read "How Has Berlusconi Survived His Sex Scandal...
...according to the Prime Minister's growing crowd of critics, Blob and a few other shows amount to just token opposition in a media landscape increasingly controlled by Berlusconi. Five of the seven major networks are either owned by him or controlled by his allies. His other assets include Mondadori publishing and Il Giornale, his Milan-based newspaper. Nearly two years since sweeping into office with a pledge to resolve his numerous media-related conflicts, Berlusconi now appears dead-set against ceding control for the duration of his five-year term. Free speech - both in practice and as a democratic...
...APPOINTED. MARINA BERLUSCONI, 36, eldest daughter of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; to head Italy's largest publisher, Mondadori, by its board; in Milan. Marina is also deputy chairperson of Fininvest, the Berlusconi family's holding company that controls Mondadori. The PM has come under fire for his multibillion-dollar business interests...
Died. Arnoldo Mondadori, 81, founder of Italy's largest publishing house; of kidney disease; in Milan. The son of an illiterate shopkeeper, Mondadori went to work as a printer's apprentice at 17 and ultimately bought out his employer. He then published cowboy stories, whodunits, comic books and greeting cards. One of Italy's leading picture magazines, Epoca, and Panorama, a newsmagazine, were also Mondadori products. His books include the first Italian translations of such writers as John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway...
...been brought out from Russia. Several chapters turned up in a Slovak literary journal called Bratislava, which, like many East European Communist periodicals, is not heavily censored and thus provides another source for sharp-eyed Westerners. A completed copy of Cancer Ward turned up in Rome, where Publisher Alberto Mondadori in March copyrighted a Russian-language edition that he says was brought to him unsolicited. He now has an Italian edition in print and claims worldwide rights to the book. In Britain, a man purporting to represent Solzhenitsyn delivered a manuscript to the Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue...