Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, red carpet in Venice with his future wife and her son

Red carpet venetian family (extended) For Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio. The 28-year-old manager and heir to the Luxottica Group – who has always been a supporter of charity linked to AIDS research – appeared on the red carpet of the amfAR gala with his bride-to-be Jessica Michel Serfaty31 years old, and with RomanThe son that the model had fromex-husband Ididia Serfaty.

Jessica he was only 16 when he married Ididia in 2007. The following year, the September 2, 2008, Roman was born. The union soon started to creak: in 2010, when Roman was 2 years old, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams in the fashion world. Jessica and Ididia tried to keep their marriage going but it didn’t work: they separated in 2013, so they decided to to divorce.

The first meeting with Leonardo was in Cannes, in 2017: he was 22 at the time, she was 26. For Del Vecchio it was love at first sight, as the entrepreneur himself said in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera. But she was then engaged to actor Ed Westwickand fate had another love in store for him: Anna Castellini Baldissera, married with great pomp in June 2022. Wedding lasted just six months – The divorce it was in December 2022 – after which Leonardo’s heart started beating for Jessica again. The two are so in love that after a few months of dating, on July 1st, he surprised his girlfriend with a romantic wedding proposal staged in the setting of the Amalfi Coast: during a dinner at the restaurant, Del Vecchio, after having ordered champagne, he was surprised kneeling in front of his partner and handing her the classic ring he asked her: «Will you marry me Jessica?». She answered “yes”.

The date of the wedding is not yet known, but one thing is certain: in a few months Leonardo was able to conquer even Roman, the fifteen-year-old son of the model. This is demonstrated by the “extended family rehearsals” just staged on the red carpet in Venice.