Letizia Maria Moratti (née Brichetto Arnaboldi; born 26 November 1949) is an Italian businesswoman and politician.
She is the granddaughter of Mimina Brichetto Arnaboldi, an intellectual society lady who hosted an important salon in Milan in the years before the Second World War, and who was also an ardent anti-fascist.
At the end of 1998, for about a year she became chairman of News Corp Europe, a company headed by Rupert Murdoch and owner of Stream TV.
[5][6] Moratti proposed unsuccessfully a park dedicated to Bettino Craxi, the controversial Italian Socialist Party leader who died while exiled in Tunisia in 2000.
In 2007, Moratti intervened to prevent the opening of Art and Homosexuality – From von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles at the Palazzo della Ragione in Milan.
Moratti appointed Lucio Stanca, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, as managing director for the Expo 2015, despite the vote of the city council against her decision.
[9] In 2010, a civil court complained against Moratti administration, the minister Roberto Maroni and the prefect of Milan Gan Valerio Lombardi for the lack of appointment of popular houses to 10 Romani families, called it as "racist gesture".