Among the cash, stocks, companies, teams and real estate that Silvio Berlusconi left to his 5 children, Cavaliere also bequeathed them a collection of controversial art!

Berlusconi’s heirs have in their hands more than 25,000 paintings – of which only 6 or 7 paintings are of value.

Berlusconi had bought most of their paintings in recent years, mainly from telemarketing with works of art or by merchants.

The paintings depict landscapes of Italian cities or female figures – several are even portraits of himself.

According to La Repubblica and the BBC – in addition to the lowly paintings themselves – Cavaliere’s heirs, if they decide to keep them, will also have to pay 800 thousand euros the time for a warehouse in which the works are kept.

Berlusconi himself had rented it huge warehouse 3,000 square meters near his villa, outside Milan, to house his collection – of little or no value according to experts.

The entire collection is estimated to be worth around €20 million – an average of €800 per painting.

Cesare Lampronti, a London-based art dealer who had a close relationship with Berlusconi for three decades, told the BBC the billionaire was an impulse buyer.

“He liked to buy portraits of women to give as gifts to friends. When he was younger, he bought from galleries and dealers, but later in life he bought from televised auctions. He knew what he was buying had no value,” he said.