Leonardo Del Vecchio News

Clemente's father, Italian billionaire Leonardo Del Vecchio, former chairman of EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest eyeglasses firm, passed away at 87 in June last year.

Born in Milan on May 22, 1935, to a poor family, Leonardo Del Vecchio spent part of his youth in an orphanage and began working as a teenager.

With her fourth child living as a street urchin in war-torn Milan in 1942, Grazia Rocco, a widow, made a fateful decision: she appealed to the city's orphanage to take in the seven-year-old, Leonardo Del Vecchio.

Clemente's father, Italian billionaire Leonardo Del Vecchio, former chairman of EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest eyeglasses firm, passed away at 87 in June last year.

Born in Milan on May 22, 1935, to a poor family, Leonardo Del Vecchio spent part of his youth in an orphanage and began working as a teenager.

With her fourth child living as a street urchin in war-torn Milan in 1942, Grazia Rocco, a widow, made a fateful decision: she appealed to the city's orphanage to take in the seven-year-old, Leonardo Del Vecchio.