Stefania Gabriella Anastasia Craxi (born 25 October 1960) is an Italian politician, daughter of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and sister of Bobo Craxi.

Biography

Stefania Craxi was an entrepreneur in the world of television, she left her career as a television producer in 2000. She entered politics in 2006, when she was elected MP with Forza Italia. She was re-elected MP in 2008, among the ranks of The People of Freedom. She also served as Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet, from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 she left the PdL and founded the Italian Reformists. In the general election of 2018 she was candidate for the Senate in the uninominal constituency of Monza-Seregno (supported by the centre-right coalition) and she was elected with the 46.79% of the vote.

Personal life

She married twice: to entrepreneur Renato Neri, with whom she had her son Federico (1987); and to Marco Bassetti, former president of the television distribution company Endemol, now in charge of Banijay, with whom she had daughters Benedetta and Anita (1991).