 Four years later he sold his holdings in "Editoriale L'Espresso" to Mondadori.In 1990, however, he was shocked to learn that Mondadori's heirs had sold out to Silvio Berlusconi, whose politics he detested.After much in-fighting and litigation, the news publications were hived off into the "Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso" controlled by the CIR Group of entrepreneur Carlo De Benedetti, of which Caracciolo remained honorary president until 2006.