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Silvio Berlusconi began his career as a nightclub and cruise ship singer. But he would eventually find an even better way to gain the adoration of the crowds: become an incomparably powerful real estate and media mogul. But just as he's at the top of his game, Silvio's business interests are threatened when a politician is caught flushing cash down a toilet.

With the Italian political system in chaos, public trust in their leaders is at rock bottom. That's when Silvio steps in to run for Prime Minister, offering a New Italian Miracle. Good thing he owns a massive business operation to help him get elected.

In his first term in office as Prime Minister, Silvio is promising Italy a fresh start. But the voters aren't so sure. Silvio finds that governing isn't easy. In fact, it puts a target on his back, and a dogged new prosecutor named Ilda "the Red" is taking aim.

It's been five years since Silvio's first term in office ended, and he's ready for a comeback. While Silvio creates his own glossy brochure to tell voters of his idyllic life, a late-night talk show host is pulling back the curtain. He wants to answer a question that has been dogging Silvio his entire career: "Silvio, where did you get all this money?!" The answer causes a sensation. (Hint: it involves the Mafia.) But is this revelation enough to stop Silvio from winning a second time?

As Silvio rules Italy, he is leaving nothing to chance. The country becomes a 24/7 Berlusconi owned-and-operated spectacle. But there's at least one important person who is not happy with how it's all going: his wife Veronica Lario.

What is "Bunga Bunga"? Two beauty pageant contestants are about to find out in the most awful way, after they receive an invitation to dinner at Silvio's villa.

As the world learns the true meaning of the words "Bunga Bunga," the Great Recession is sweeping the world and prosecutors are closing in on Silvio, He is about to receive several rude awakenings, including one that will literally smash him in the teeth.

World leaders offer a bailout package to a struggling Italy, and the country's long, complicated love affair with Silvio is turning cold. And Ilda the Red is taking one more shot at putting Silvio behind bars.

Nearly a decade after his fall from grace, Silvio is back on the political scene and back on the dating scene, too. In this special episode, Barbie Nadeau speaks with the hosts of Wondery's show "Even the Rich" about Silvio's complicated legacy, his fight against COVID-19, and why there's good reason to believe he wears a corset.