The life of 49-year-old businessman and millionaire Gianluca Vacchi is like a fairy tale. It seems that there is only room in it for endless entertainment, the most varied and exquisite pleasures and excellent mood, and illness, misfortune, bad weather and depression are prohibited. It’s unlikely that Gianluca could have thought that what would make him famous throughout the world was not his multimillion-dollar fortune and lifestyle under the sign of “luxury,” but dancing and Instagram. In Italy, Vacchi has long been the king of this network, but most Internet users discovered his page only after he posted a video in which he and his wife dance to Ricky Martin’s song La Mordidita.

Recently, Gianluca and his wife Giorgia Gabriela flew to Moscow to get acquainted with Russian culture and participate in the recording of the program “Let Them Talk” by Andrei Malakhov, which will be aired on Channel One. An excellent opportunity to reciprocate Gianluca’s feelings and get to know him better.

HELLO.RU has collected 15 interesting facts about the dancing millionaire. As Gianluca says - Enjoy!

Gianluca was born on August 5, 1967 into a wealthy family in Bologna. His parents decided to retire when their son turned 25 years old. It was then that Gianluca took the family business into his own hands.

Little Gianluca with his father

First, Gianluca bought out his father's company, Fin Vacchi Finanziaria Vacchi, and over time became the head of 30 more companies. The activities of these enterprises are very diverse - from the production of plastics, car headlights and glass doors for washing machines to the production of high voltage cables, packaging for pharmaceuticals and tea bags. His companies employ seven thousand employees, but Gianluca cannot completely retire and enjoy his vacation.

I still work a lot - four hours a day,” says Gianluca in all seriousness.

Gianluca graduated in economics from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna.

In his homeland, Italy, Gianluca Vacchi has long been a celebrity. And not at all thanks to dancing or impressive condition. Gianluca turned his own lifestyle into a brand. At first, I published daily photos of my adventures, “looks,” lunches, dinners, entertainment on a yacht/villas/social parties under the tag #gvlifestyle and the obligatory caption “Enjoy!” on Instagram. Then he created a personal website where he sorted all the photos by topic: fitness, fashion, lifestyle, rules of life, tattoo. Of course, only Gianluca himself stars in the leading roles.

Book by Gianluca Vacchi

Gianluca recently released a set of his own emoji emoticons - Gvemoji. Anyone can download them from the App Store for 1.99 euros.

Gianluca can buy himself whatever he wants. And his soul, of course, wants only the best. If you buy a car, then only a Bentley - he has three of them; if you buy a motorcycle, then naturally a Harley-Davidson. Vacca also owns a 14-meter-long sailboat with three engines and a power of 1,050 horsepower, which the millionaire calls “a huge sofa under sail.”

It's so convenient there! “I’m lying on the deck and thinking that the ship is just a nutshell that floats on the sea,” Gianluca Vacchi said in a recent interview with HOLA!

Gianluca is currently building a new yacht, which he plans to launch in March next year.

Gianluca with his dog
Sailboat Gianluca Vacchi

As you might guess, the millionaire’s real estate is also all right. Gianluca has a house in his native Bologna, which he turned into a kind of gallery-museum.

When I filled the house with various pieces of art, I was delighted and decided that I would furnish the rooms in a minimalist style. Another pride of mine is the spa salon, where a cosmetologist and a manicurist and pedicurist are on duty around the clock. I love to steam there in the Turkish bath and walk along the corridor with shower jets that change the temperature and aroma.

Gianluca Vacchi's house in Bologna

The cinema room in Vacca's house is decorated with a huge art object in the form of an Oscar statuette.

On Via Montenapoleone, the most prestigious in Milan, Gianluca also has property - a luxurious house.

Here I wanted to create the atmosphere of Paris, a kind of boudoir of the late 1900s. There is a lot of gold and velvet in the house. Everything is rich and very French, not a single hint of Italy.
Gianluca Vacchi in his home in Milan (photo from his website)
Gianluca also owns the oldest building in the city of Cortina D'Ampezzo, in the Italian Alps. The house was built in 1781 and has since retained its original appearance. The walls of the rooms in Gianluca's chalet are upholstered in wood and decorated with skins and stuffed animals.

Perhaps Gianluca spends most of his time in his house in Sardinia, in Porto Cervo. It was there, by the way, that most of the dance videos were filmed. The two-level mansion with an area of ​​1200 square meters, surrounded by two huge swimming pools, is associated by the owner with the deck of a spacious yacht.

I call this house H2O - such a short but memorable name,” Gianluca told HOLA!. - At first, the villa was completely surrounded by water, but I redid half the territory and turned the house into a wonderful example of architectural art.

Villa Gianluca in Sardinia

Before meeting his wife Giorgia Gabriela, Gianluca was credited with affairs with Jennifer Lopez, Aida Jespica, Belen Rodriguez, Nina Senicar and Melissa Satta.

The millionaire met Jorja at his own party more than three years ago: the girl came to it in the company of her boyfriend and, as they say, part-time his friend. Vakki was fascinated by the guest and quickly won her favor. The 18-year age difference did not bother him.

For many years I was selfish, but with Georgie in my life, I began to put her interests above mine.

George Gabriela and Gianluca Vacca

George was born in the small town of Sora, Italy. At the university she studied business and economics, but did not want to work by profession. Instead, she first got a job in a reality television show, where she became a real star in a short time.

Now Jorja is better known as a designer. She owns the company Wandering, which has taken a good place in the fashion market. Jorja presented her debut collection in March in Milan. Before meeting Gianluca, Giorgia dated Italian football player Christian Vieri.

George Gabriele in his company office
George in his "favorite room in the house"

Gianluca's body is covered in tattoos. This is not just a tribute to fashion or part of a spectacular image - each drawing, as Vacca himself admits, means a lot to him.

For example, portraits of my parents and aunt, a letter from my grandmother and my response to my mother when she had an accident.

Two tattoos are dedicated to his wife, Giorgia Gabriela. The first is the inscription “From this moment on, the words “affection” and “care” acquired even more weight.” The second is “I love you, darling.”

Gianluca is characterized by both very bold and very strange antics. So, he can easily ride while standing on the seat of a motorcycle moving at full speed or lower part of the bathroom interior into his pool just for the sake of likes on social networks.

In August of this year, Gianluca suffered a serious infectious disease, which, according to media reports, could have been fatal. Vakki did not tell what exactly happened, writing only:

When your life is at risk, everything takes on a different value. The grass seems greener and the sky is clearer.

Gianluca loves everything beautiful - both in things and in the interior. According to him, he can spend hours on the Internet and study new trends.

Gianluca inherited a love for objects of art. His uncle is an artist whose work was exhibited at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. And the jewelry that the businessman’s aunt created could be seen in the Tate Gallery in London.

Currently, Gianluca Vacchi's Instagram page has over 5.4 million followers, and this number continues to grow rapidly every day. Follow and enjoy!

Moscow, August 10 - RIA Novosti, Anush Dolukhanyan. Today it became known that the Italian bank BPM has seized the property of Instagram star and millionaire Gianluca Vacchi. In July 2016, he became popular on social networks thanks to a video of him dancing with his girlfriend on board a yacht. RIA Novosti found out what the Italian’s business consists of, how many houses he has and what he might lose.

Who is Gianluca Vacchi?

Gianluca was born into a wealthy family, his father is the owner of the packaging and packaging equipment company Fin Vacchi. Gianluca holds the position of member of the board of directors in this company and has a 30% stake. He also owns the SEA company, which produces car trailers, as well as part of the shares of Eurotech and Toy Watch. In addition, Vacchi founded his own watch brand, GV.

The Italian magazine Il Fatto Quotidiano estimated the Italian's fortune at 1.1 billion euros. In the fall of 2016, Vacchi was in Russia and starred in the program “Let Them Talk,” during which filming of one of his houses was shown.

What did Vakki own and what had he already lost?

On social networks, Vakki publishes photographs in which he spends time in style on his yachts, in mansions and at fashionable parties. Gianluca owns a building from 1781 in the city of Cortina D'Ampezzo in the Italian Alps, a house in Bologna with a gallery-museum, a spa with a Turkish bath and a corridor of shower jets.

On the most prestigious street in Milan - Montenapoleone - he also has a house stylized as Parisian buildings. In Sardinia, in Porto Cervo, there is his two-level mansion of 1,200 square meters, surrounded by two huge swimming pools. This is where most of his dance videos were filmed.

As for cars, the millionaire has three Bentleys and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Vacca owns a 14-meter-long sailboat with three engines and a power of 1,050 horsepower, which the millionaire calls “a huge sofa under sail.”

Now Vacchi has lost several yachts, villas and a share in a golf club, which were financial security for a ten million loan taken in 2008. Since then, he has paid only two installments of two million euros, but was unable to close the third, which expired at the end of 2015.

Dance and life partner

Giorgia Gabriele is the same girl with whom he performed the dance that made him famous throughout the world. They met in 2010, but in July 2017 their romance came to an end. During a television program on a Russian channel, Gianluca admitted that his ex-fiancee Rafaella lived with him and Georgia in their house, but this did not interfere with their relationship.

Now, judging by photos on Instagram, the millionaire has a new girlfriend.

Forever Young

Gianluca attends fashionable parties, stands behind the DJ console and mixes music. His body is covered with tattoos, each of which, according to him, has a special meaning.

Evil creditors quickly broke into the sweet life of social media star Gianluca Vaca. He owed Banco BPM 10 million euros and now the bank took Vacca’s yacht, villa and even a share of shares in the Casalunga di Castenaso golf club to repay the debt.

How a millionaire became a star

Many Ukrainians and residents of other countries know Gianluca Vacchi under the nickname “dancing millionaire”. Last year, Vacchi became famous around the world with a viral video in which the 50-year-old hedonist danced with his now ex-partner, 18 years his junior.

The video, posted on Instagram, has received millions of views. It was reposted by users all over the world, and this fever did not bypass Ukraine. This was easily explained: many were inspired by a gray-haired elderly man who, at 49, is in excellent physical shape, is not ashamed of his body and dances so well.
The excitement subsided a little when it turned out that this was not just a grandfather with an active lifestyle, but an Italian millionaire. This guy can afford a yacht with a young wife, a good gym, and the “dancing for the rest of his life” lifestyle.

Vakki throws parties at which he acts as a DJ, weaves three real diamonds into his beard, and drives around expensive resorts and cities.

In the fall of 2016, he visited Moscow on the air of Andrei Malakhov’s program. And, of course, he organized a club party for Muscovites.

Vacchi now has 12 million followers on Instagram, 1.6 million on Facebook and 44 thousand on Twitter. True, as Quotidiano claims, there is a suspicion that those 12 million are not real people, but “clickers” created by special offices.

Playboy

As can be seen from the photos on Instagram, Vacchi prefers slender brunettes. He was married only once at the age of 28 and calls that marriage a mistake.

In the famous video, Vacchi dances with his girlfriend Giorgia Gabriele. He even called her his wife, although their relationship was not formalized. They both insisted that they were happy with everything anyway.

Moreover, according to Vacca, sometimes the three of them even live together - he, Georgia and his ex-girlfriend Rafaella.

Vacchi and Giorgia Gabriele. Photo: Instagram / gianlucavacchi

Now Georgia has the status of an ex - now the rich man is posting photos with former Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez.

Vakki and Ariadna Gutierrez. Photo: Instagram / gutierrezary

Before Raffaella and Georgia, the millionaire’s passion was the Italian model and TV presenter Melissa Satta. In 2011, she married Spanish footballer Kevin-Prince Boateng and then gave birth to his son.

Vakka, as far as we know, has no children. He popularizes his lifestyle not only through Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Vacchi published his own book "Enjoy", which translates as "Enjoy". In it, he says that after 20 years of hard work in business, he decided to leave it, devote time to himself and start enjoying life.

How Wakki earned his money

The Instagram star is not one of those people who made himself from scratch. He was lucky to be born into a wealthy family in the city of Bologna. In 1963, she bought a controlling stake in the IMA company, producing automation for packaging medications, cosmetics, food, tea and cigarettes. Now it is the flagship business of the Vacca family.

The company is currently headed by playboy cousin Alberto Vacchi. Unlike his relative, he leads a relatively modest life, speaks at business seminars and does not wear a beard or mustache.

The Biografie online website writes that Gianluca owns 30% of the family company. But, according to Quotidiano, although he is on the board of directors, he is not involved in management. For this he is paid 5 million euros annually.

The business that Gianluca runs on his own cannot be called successful. His own brand, Gianluca Vacchi Lifestyle, with an annual turnover of 70 million euros, has losses of 7 million euros.

He took out a loan of 10 million euros, because of which his yacht and other property was taken away, from his own company, First Investments. He made two payments and then stopped paying. The company closed in August 2016, with a total debt of 30 million euros.

Moreover, these are not all of Vacca’s debts. He owes another 6 million euros to the Popolare di Vicenza bank for a villa in Porto Cervo, in northern Sardinia.

"Get Gianluca a job!"

After the news of Vacca's bankruptcy, social networks exploded with a lot of ridicule and parody collages. One of the most popular scenes is the image of Gianluca dancing on a beach boat or by a children's pool. Others started writing things like, “Get Gianluca a job.”

He himself, as it turned out, is not very interested in financial problems. In response to the bank's actions, he posted a video on Instagram in which he sings a line from Lorenzo Giovanotti's song "Pockets Full of Stones": "Grumble people, grumble... silent and remaining cheerful."

He then said that he congratulated everyone from Turkey. “See you tonight in Monte Carlo, and tomorrow in Saint-Tropez,” he concluded his “speech,” made an eloquent gesture as if shaking dust from his shoulder and boarded his own private jet.

A year ago, a video circulated on the Internet in which 49-year-old Italian millionaire Gianluca Vacchi danced with his then-girlfriend, 30-year-old supermodel Giorgia Gabriele. Now he has property - the very villas and yachts against which he was photographed for Instagram. found out what happened to the wealth of the extravagant Italian.

“Do you want an interview? It's easy, but only at your expense. You know, I’ve run out of money,” joked Gianluca Vacchi when a correspondent for the Italian newspaper Quotidiano called him. The day before, the press reported that his villas and yachts were being taken away by the bank, to which the millionaire owed 10.5 million euros.

Detractors early. Gianluca believes that with his wealth, 10 million is nothing. If you believe him, the reason for debt is not lack of money. There was simply an error when calculating interest on the loan. He refuses to pay until they are recounted or there is a corresponding court decision.

The scale of property seizures, according to the Italian, is greatly exaggerated. He still has room to dance. True, the bank got the golf club, which his father loved very much. But it doesn't matter. “Dad died a long time ago,” says Gianluca. “There was no point in paying for it.”

Family business

Gianluca's fortune is estimated at 450 million dollars (about 27 billion rubles). Media claims that his annual income is up to 20 million. The problem is that this is almost impossible to verify: he is not obliged to disclose true information about his income and is vain enough to exaggerate it.

Gianluca is a wealthy heir who lives on dividends. His family owns the IMA Corporation, a major manufacturer of machines for packaging food, drugs and cosmetics. 55 years ago, the Vacca family bought the company from a struggling Italian inventor. By 2016, the company's turnover exceeded a billion euros, and its net profit was 101 million euros.

According to media reports, Gianluca received a third of the IMA. In 2010, the company reported that he owned 876 thousand shares. Since then, information about his share has not been published; it could either decrease or increase.

Photo: Roberto Monaldo / LaPresse / Legion-Media

In the late 1990s, Gianluca was responsible for investor relations at IMA for two years. In 1999, he joined the board of directors, but his powers are extremely limited. He cannot participate in the management of the corporation; this is done by Alberto Vacchi, Gianluca’s cousin and the complete opposite. Alberto gets up at six in the morning, works until late in the evening and tries to stay away from his extravagant relative.

Italian media claim that the IMA pays Gianluca five million euros annually. According to Quotidiano's caustic definition, this is a payment for not meddling in the company's affairs.

Business career

In his youth, Gianluca tried to do business. “I only inherited three or four percent of what I own,” he said in a recent interview. - From 25 to 35 years old, I worked in twelve sectors of the economy. I was involved in the tourism business, mobile homes, and wristwatches.”

Indeed, in the early 2000s, Gianluca used family capital to buy several companies. Whether this was beneficial is another question.