Who is Rocco Basilico, the manager surprisingly appointed as heir in Leonardo Del Vecchio’s will. And who is Sonia Ammar, his girlfriend

The model’s boyfriend Sonia Ammar appears surprisingly in the will of Leonardo Del Vecchio, the patron of Luxottica who passed away in recent days. It’s a twist the appearance of the young manager Rocco Basilico among the heirs. And immediately, as per the gossip textbook, the focus also shifts to his girlfriend. How to say her: she always rains in the wet.

Who is Sonia? She is 23 years old and is already an established model. Sonia Ammar appeared on the cover of VAnity Fair and L’Officielwalked for Miu Miu, Carolina Herrera e Chanelwas also the favorite of Dolce & Gabbana for a campaign on millennials. An independent career, which took off with a contract signed with Img, the famous fashion agency, in 2016.

But now the spotlight is on her after the opening of the will of Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica. Because, Surprisingly enough, Rocco Basilico also appeared among the beneficiaries of the inheritance. It is the young manager of the company who presented the “smart glasses to Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook. Just during a trip to the USA he met Sonia. Los Angeles was convicted: the two have been engaged since 2017.

Sonia is not a woman who likes to live in tow. She is proud of her independence and her relationship with Basilico has never been heralded. She was born in 1999 in Paris. She is the daughter of a film producer, Tarak Ben Ammar. Her father founded Quinta Communications, the company that owns Eagle Pictures. You are the major that produced and distributed “IThe King’s speech“By Tom Hooper,”Passion” by Mel Gibson, the saga of “Twilight ”,“ The Addams Family“And among the latest” House of Gucci “with Lady Gaga. He was a great friend of Bettino Craxi and partner of Silvio Berlusconi. A family related, albeit distantly, with the first president of Tunisia Habib Bourguiba.

Fashion shows, catwalks, covers. For Sonia, success came early. The consecration, we revealed, with Dolce & Gabbana and their campaign entirely dedicated to millennials, in which she posed in front of the objectives together with other international stars such as Zendaya. But Sonia is also an excellent singer and a promising actress. Little more than a child, in 2013, she was on the stage of a musical, Les Amants de la Bastille. She then she appeared in the film Jappeloup, a tender and delicate story of a jockey who adopts a colt that has suffered a serious injury and who, healed, will become a champion. She now she has been choice to appear in the cast of a movie: Scream 5, yet another chapter in the horror saga created by Wes Craven. In front of the microphone, in Los Angeles, he made his debut in 2019 with the single “Joyride”, a love story. In the video clip she appears always wrapped in a fluffy and very light white dress.

For some years she has been engaged to Rocco Basilico. For him too, a career that took off at a very young age. He is the first married son of Nicoletta Zampillo (with the financier Paolo Basilico), Del Vecchio’s last wife. Was Economics student at the Cattolica in Milan, joined Luxottica when he was only 23, in 2013. Today he is also the chief wereables officer and CEO of Oliver Peoples, a leading eyewear company. Distinguished by the style, needless to say, of Los Angeles.

When the will was opened, his name came as a surprise. With him came the eighth heir, with 12.5 of the shares of the family’s Luxembourg safe. “It was my husband’s proposal to include my son Rocco in the will and I gladly accepted“, Revealed Mrs. Del Vecchio. Now the symbolic photo of the love between Sonia and Rocco circulates on all the media in the world. He has a pair of dark goggles, she winks.

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