Leonardo Del Vecchio, the heritage between wife and children: this is the future of the empire

Rome, June 27, 2022 – Arms, loves, daring feats. There is a literary, Ariosto, aspect in the entrepreneurial and human deeds of Leonardo Del Vecchio, the second richest man in Italy in 2022 according to Forbes (the first is mister Nutella, Ferrero) with a fortune of about 30 billion euros. A complex man, self-made man as they are no longer born, martinitt and then business captain, entrepreneur and billionaire passionate about finance. A figure of his character that remains imprinted in his empire and which will probably determine its future. “Italy has lost its last patriarch of capitalism,” wrote Les Echos, the most authoritative business newspaper in France. Country closely linked to the fate and interests of Del Vecchio. Who will take the reins of his empire now? That’s the question the markets are asking. Even if the answer is not simple and it will not be immediate. As after the death of Caprotti, the founder of Esselunga, one will have to deal with a complex family network, with the inheritance, and with the determinations made by Del Vecchio in the last remnants of his life, or perhaps in the last years in which he given a precise and international structure to empire use with 180 thousand employees and seven thousand points of sale, a company philosophy that makes employee welfare and well-being a company philosophy. Then there is the family, and here it is likely that complex chapters will open in the division of the inheritance. Married three times, Del Vecchio leaves six children: Claudio, Marisa, Paola (from his first marriage to Luciana Nervo), Leonardo Maria (from his current wife Nicoletta Zampillo whom he married in 1997 and, after the divorce in 2000, remarried in 2010 ), Luca and Clemente (born in 2001 and 2004, and had by the ex-partner Sabina Grossi). The company that holds all …