Maria Antonietta Berlusconi Beretta | Italian leader's sister, 65

Maria Antonietta Berlusconi Beretta, 65, the sister of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, has died.

Emergency services in the northern city of Milan said an ambulance was called to Ms. Berlusconi Beretta's house yesterday but there was nothing medics could do to save her. No cause of death was given.

Ms. Berlusconi Beretta largely stayed away from the limelight, and Italian media remembered her as a patron of the arts and founder of a ballet school in Milan.

In addition to her brother, 72, Italy's longest-serving premier since World War II, she also leaves another brother, businessman Paolo Berlusconi. Their mother, Rosa Bossi Berlusconi, died just over a year ago at 97. - AP