Overview
- Fininvest confirmed late Wednesday that one of its companies had accepted a binding offer for Villa Certosa after the family put the property on the market last year.
- Multiple outlets report the price at roughly €350 million, but coverage differs on the buyer’s exact identity with some naming Hamad bin Jassim and others naming Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al Thani.
- Reports say the purchaser is acting through a Luxembourg-based investment vehicle, a common structure for cross-border high-value property deals, though the buyer has not publicly commented.
- Villa Certosa spans about 120 hectares and includes roughly 126 rooms, pools, an amphitheatre, a mock volcano and an underground grotto, and it is best known for hosting Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ parties and high-profile guests.
- The sale is part of the heirs’ wider effort to settle Berlusconi’s financial legacy after his 2023 death and could deepen the Al Thani family’s existing Sardinian holdings, with local economic and political scrutiny likely to follow.