Portrait of Nicoletta Zampillo

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Nicoletta Zampillo

Net worth $5.7B

Eyeglasses · Italy

Born
Mar 28, 1958
Age
68
Source
Eyeglasses
Residence
Monaco
Citizenship
Italy
Marital status
Widowed
Children
3
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Nicoletta Zampillo is the widow of Leonardo Del Vecchio, the late chairman (d. 2022) of EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest eyeglasses firm.
  • She inherited a 12.5% stake in Del Vecchio's Luxembourg-based holding company Delfin after his death, along with her two kids and five stepchildren.
  • Besides EssilorLuxottica, Delfin also owns shares in insurer Generali; banks Monte dei Paschi di Siena and UniCredit; and real estate developer Covivio.
  • Zampillo and Del Vecchio first married in 1997 and both already had children from an earlier marriage; they later divorced and then remarried in 2010.
  • Zampillo's two children, Rocco Basilico, who she had with her ex-husband Paolo Basilico, and Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, both work at EssilorLuxottica.
  • Zampillo reportedly met Del Vecchio through her father, who was one of Luxottica's first representatives in Milan.

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