Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli is a dad for SIXTH time aged 82 after welcoming a son with 38-year-old former Swedish Playboy model
- Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has become a father for the sixth time
- The 82-year-old welcomes son Giorgio with girlfriend 45 years his younger
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Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has become a father for the sixth time at the age of 82.
The luxury fashion designer is said to be worth $500 million and already has five children from two previous marriages.
He shares his sixth child with his 38-year-old Swedish former playmate girlfriend Sandra Nilsson.
During an interview for Italian gossip magazine 'Novella 2000' he said: Sandra is doing fine, the baby, who was born a week ago right here in Florence, is beautiful and it was really emotional to see him right after he was born.'
Roberto Cavalli (right) and his girlfriend 38-year-old Swedish former playmate girlfriend Sandra Nilsson have welcomed a son
The birth of Roberto and Sandra's son makes the fashion designer a father for the sixth time at the age of 82
Roberto told the journalist that the couple had welcomed a son called Giorgio, in tribute to his father who was shot by Nazis near the end of World War Two.
He continued: 'His name is Giorgio, like his grandfather, my father... whom the Nazis shot in the Cavriglia massacre when I was four years old.'
The fashion designer shares children Tommaso and Cristina with his first wife Silvanella Giannoni, who he married in 1964 before they divorced 10 years later.
He then married Austrian fashion designer Eva Maria Duringer in 1980, with whom he had three children, Robert, Rachele and Daniele.
The 82-year-old told Italian gossip magazine Novella 2000 about the birth of his son, who is named Giorgio after his father
The pair divorced in 2010 and Roberto has been dating model Sandra since 2014.
The 82-year-old has previously spoken out about his difficult childhood, after a rough upbringing following the murder of his father, which he says left him mute until the age of 18.
He revealed: 'I didn't have an easy childhood. My father was just by the Germans in July 1944, in a raid on Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni.
'He was a surveyor, he worked for a mine in the Valdarno... I didn't speak until 18. But life has been kind to me (and I have been) rewarded... for everything.'
In 2015 Roberto bought Sandra, who is 45 years his younger, a private island in her home coutry of Sweden.
He gifted Sandra £2.2 million Stora Rullingen isle off the cost of Strängnäs, around 50 miles east of Stockholm.
Roberto started publicly dating Sandra in 2014 after the breakdown of his second marriage to Austrian fashion designer Eva Maria Duringer
In 2015 Roberto bought Sandra, who is 45 years his younger, a private island in her home coutry of Sweden
The island is complete with a four-bedroom villa, hunting lodge, pool and the remains of a Viking hill fort as well as its own small golf course.
Sandra has been seen at Roberto’s side as early as 2010 when he separated from his second wife.
Born in Sjöbo in southern Sweden, she was discovered by a modelling agent aged 14 during a family holiday in Paris.
Her parents told her to wait until after high school to go into modelling, but after graduating in nursing with the Swedish equivalent to an A-Level, she started posing part time while working as a personal assistant.
She was a competitor on Scandinavia’s Top Model and won several beauty contests including Swedish Miss Hawaiian Tropic, before she became Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month in January 2008.
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