Patricia Gucci

Patricia Gucci is a fashion executive and a member of the Gucci family.[1] She lives in Switzerland.[2]

Patricia Gucci
Born (1963-03-01) March 1, 1963
London, England
EducationAiglon College
OccupationFashion executive
Known forheir to the Gucci fashion empire
Children3
Parent(s)
RelativesGuccio Gucci (grandfather),
Maurizio Gucci (cousin)

Biography

She was the daughter of Aldo Gucci, the patriarch of the Gucci fashion empire, and Bruna Palombo.[3] Her father met her mother, who worked in one of his stores, while he was still married to the mother of his three sons. He began an adulterous relationship with her mother when adultery was illegal, and he did not acknowledge her as his child, when she was young.[4] Aldo put Patricia on Gucci's Board of directors, when she was nineteen years old.[1] He married her mother when Patricia was twenty-four years old.

In 2016 Patricia published a memoir.[4] She did not learn her father had another family, another wife, when she was ten years old.[4] Her elder half-brother Paolo Gucci broke away from the family firm, and tried to set up a rival company.[5] In his last years Aldo's sons squeezed control of Gucci away from him, and Aldo, in turn, made Patricia his sole heir.

After a House of Gucci tax scandal involving her father Aldo, the business was fully sold in 1993 by her cousin Maurizio Gucci.[3]

In 2018, she started a business called Aviteur, selling designer luggage.[3]

Personal life

She had three daughters, Alexandra, Victoria, and Isabella.[3]

Gucci was married to Joseph Ruffalo, a music executive who worked with Prince and Earth, Wind & Fire.[6][2] Gucci divorced her second husband Ruffalo in 2007, because he had been sexually abusing her daughter Alexandra Zarini.[1] In 2020, Patricia was named in a lawsuit brought forward by her daughter Alexandra Zarini, for complicity and a cover-up of the childhood abuse by her stepfather.[1]

References
  1. Victoria Friedman (2020-09-09). "Gucci Heir Alleges Child Sexual Abuse: Alexandra Zarini, the great-granddaughter of Guccio Gucci, has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against three family members". The New York Times. p. D1. Retrieved 2020-09-09. In 2016, Patricia Gucci published a memoir, “In the Name of Gucci,” about her life and her parents’ relationship, which began in secret and lasted 30 years. Aldo Gucci, her father, was already married and had three sons when he met her mother, a sales clerk in the Rome store; they began an affair at a time when adultery was illegal in Italy.
  2. "A Gucci family secret: Heiress alleges she was sexually abused from age 6 onward". Los Angeles Times. 2020-09-10. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  3. Elizabeth Paton (2019-09-27). "A Gucci Name Comes with Baggage". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  4. Kate Storey (2016-05-11). "Sitting Down With the Secret Gucci Love Child:". Harpers Bazaar. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  5. E. R. Shipp (1982-07-20). "A GUCCI SUES RELATIVES (Published 1982)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  6. Edward Helmore (2020-09-10). "Gucci heiress files lawsuit alleging stepfather sexually abused her". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
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