It is Silvio Berlusconi’s historic summer home in Sardinia, where he hosted Putin and Bush
Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei he would be the one to have set my sights on Villa Certosa in Porto Rotondo, the immense villa of Silvio Berlusconi, put up for sale after his death. The mansion overlooking the gulf it is 4500 square meters large, with a 120 hectare park, and 126 rooms where the powerful of the world stayed, Vladimir Putin, George Bush and Tony Blair to the Arab sheikhs. Its value was estimated to be within a range between 300 and 500 million euros.
Who is the Sultan?
77 years old, sultan of the small state of the island of Borneo for over fifty years, would have had the opportunity to see the luxurious summer residence of the former prime minister. His private plane, a Boeing 747-400 with gold plating, worth 233 million dollars did not go unnoticed at Olbia airport. In fact, for some time, the name of Hassanal Bolkiah has been the one that has circulated the most in Gallura, but it is not known whether the villa is for himself, or a gift for one of the twelve children, Abdul Mateen, the 32-year-old who last January celebrated his wedding with a sumptuous ten-day ceremony on a cruise ship that toured the Mediterranean, including Sardinia. Sultan Bolkiah is one of the richest men in the world, with an estimated net worth of 22 billion dollars. Among his immense riches, 452 Ferraris and 500 Rolls Royces, for which he has an unbridled passion, and dozens of unique models for a total of 7 thousand vehicles worth 5 billion euros.
Private life
Il sultano Hassanal Bolkiah, He has three official wives and 12 children. His long reign is full of oddities and scandals. According to the newspaper The Insider who has collected several habits, the sultan had a personal zoo built, he detached a $16 million check for Michael Jackson’s 50th birthday performance. In the 1980s and 1990s, his brother, Prince Jefri, came under fire after revelations by American writer Jillian Lauren who claimed to have been recruited in his harem of 40 young women. And yet, it seems that the sultan you don’t shine for concessions and liberties in his kingdom. In 2019 he introduced a law that punishes homosexuality with death by stoning, wanting to align with the Sharia imposed by the rigid interpretation of Islam. But following heavy criticism received internationally, he promised that the law would never be applied
