Patricia Gucci (born 1 March 1963) is an Italian businesswoman and member of the Gucci family. She is the only daughter of

Aldo Gucci Aldo Gucci (26 May 1905 – 19 January 1990) was an Italian personality and the chairman of Gucci from 1953 to 1986. He was the eldest son of Guccio Gucci, who founded the company bearing the family name in 1921. Early life and family Aldo Gu ...

and granddaughter of

Guccio Gucci Guccio Giovanbattista Giacinto Dario Maria Gucci (26 March 1881 – 2 January 1953) was an Italian businessman and fashion designer. He is known for being the founder of the fashion house Gucci. Early life Guccio Gucci was born in Florence, T ...

who founded the company in 1921.

Biography

She is the daughter of

, the patriarch of the Gucci fashion empire, and Bruna Palombo; the two met when Bruna was working at the Gucci flagship store in Rome. He was still married to the mother of his three sons, and adultery was illegal in Italy, so they lived in England. They married when Patricia was twenty-four years old. Patricia was elected to Gucci's Board of directors at age nineteen. In 2016, Patricia published a memoir, ''In the Name of Gucci'', in which she revealed that she did not learn that her father had another family and wife until she was ten years old. Her elder half-brother

Paolo Gucci Paolo Gucci (29 March 1931 – 10 October 1995) was an Italian businessman and fashion designer. He was the one-time chief designer and vice-president of Gucci. He is credited with helping design Gucci's famous double G logo. Early life and care ...

broke away from the family firm and tried to set up a rival company. In Aldo's last years, he was involved in a tax scandal and his sons, together with his nephew Maurizio, squeezed control of Gucci away from him. Aldo, in turn, made Patricia his sole heir. The Gucci family business was fully sold in 1993 by Patricia's cousin

Maurizio Gucci Maurizio Gucci (26 September 1948 – 27 March 1995) was an Italian businessman and the one-time head of the Gucci fashion house. He was the son of actor Rodolfo Gucci, and grandson of the company's founder Guccio Gucci. On 27 March 1995, he was ...

. In 2018, she founded Aviteur, a luxury travel lifestyle company.

Personal life

She has three daughters,

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, Victoria, and Isabella. Gucci was married to Joseph Ruffalo, a music executive who worked with

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and

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. Gucci divorced Ruffalo in 2007, because he had sexually abused her daughters

and Victoria since the early 1990s. In 2020, Patricia Gucci was named in a lawsuit brought forward by her daughter Alexandra for the childhood abuse by her stepfather.

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