Nicoletta Zampillo

About Nicoletta Zampillo

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 Mediobanca 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.