Marcello Dell'Utri (born 11 September 1941 in Palermo, Sicily) is an influential Italian politician and senior advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Currently Senator in the Italian Senate for The People of Freedom political movement, he is also member of the Italian Parliamentary Delegation to the Council of Europe and of the Italian Parliamentary Delegation to the Western European Union (WEO). He is the director of the prestigious Teatro Lirico in Milan.
Dell'Utri is also president of many cultural association and editor of many journals and magazines, namely: Biblioteca di via Senato, l’Erasmo. Trimestrale della civiltà europea, Il Domenicale. He is also president of the cultural association Il Circolo Giovani.
Dell'Utri has been found guilty of tax fraud, false accounting, and complicity in conspiracy with the Sicilian Mafia; the conviction for the last charge is pending appeal. Dell'Utri has been convicted to a total of over 10 years in jail since 1999, but has never served jail time.
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