«I have 10 children, 100 companies and three wives. The last one, Ilaria, was my son’s classmate. But I’m stopping now”
10 children, 100 companies and three wives. If numbers make happiness, we can say that Marco Benatti he is a very happy man. Born in 1953, Benatti was born in Verona 70 years ago (indeed still 69 because he will blow out his first 70 candles on July 29). Italian entrepreneur, thegraduated in architecture at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Marco Benatti gave birth to and weaned over 100 companies, which he calls start-ups, 38 of which in the four years in which the world went mad with the advent of the new economy: the most famous, Virgilio, an Internet portal, he sold to Seat Pagine Yellow and De Agostini.
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Marco Benatti, the children
Son of a well-known architect lBenatti junior’s professional gallop began in Verona with a photography and advertising studio.
An unstoppable careerbut in addition to the career that of Marco Benatti is a life that lives on large numbers also from an emotional point of view.
Marianna, 36, and Carlo, 34, both Bocconi graduates, were born from their first wedding, celebrated in church in 1978 with Marilù Verzè, also from Verona. “I was young and ambitious. My wife doesn’t want to follow me to Milan. After 14 years, we were two strangers.”
Over twenty years ago, the entrepreneur made the headlines for a completely different reason from his career: he had decided to give up being a supermanager to devote himself full-time to the role of father and also mother of the third child he was planning with Marina Salamon, his second wife, also an entrepreneur.
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The story with Marina Salamon
A marriage with Marina lasted 10 years. «She wanted to change me and so did I. She wanted to be my boss.’ The entrepreneur is told in Corriere della Sera. The civil marriage with Marina Salamon, which ended after two decades with another divorce, brought him Brando, 27 years old, son of Luciano Benetton («a golden boy, lives in Hollywood, works as an assistant director. is the ‘only one of my children that I have not seen in the delivery room”); Lupo, 24, graduated in Economics and Commerce in San Francisco, resident in Barcelona; Jacopo, 22, who lives in Verona with his mother and is doing his civil service; Francesco, 19, now in Lund (Sweden) with the Erasmus programme, studying Economic Philosophy, new faculty in English at Ca’ Foscari.
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Last wife 39 years younger than him
A life with one foot always on the accelerator. He is now in his third marriage (left Marina Salamon married Ilaria Philippi, 39 years younger than him), and he already has 4 children with her: Leone, 5; Light, 4; Lightning, 2; Moon, 1 on March 4. Also he has two grandchildren older than his youngest daughter. “Between one marriage and another, I cheated. Some even at the end, when the relationship was already cracked. A stain that I carry with me with shame». How did you meet Ilaria? «She was Brando’s classmate at the Salesian institute. I was already divorced from Marina. She came to see me with my son and the spark struck ». But don’t worry, the girl was already 19 years old. «She is special as a woman, as a mother, as an engineer specializing in architecture, photographer and art director. She doesn’t know what lies are, she only says what she thinks. Ilaria taught me a way of loving that I didn’t know: putting the other first. For her, I am in first place and the same for me»: But it seems there is no possibility that the Benatti family will increase further. “It would be the eleventh. No, that’s enough, I’ll stop. If I think I have to take four to university… I’ll be 90 years old».
And so the manager “mammo” also beat his father, who died in 1988, who had six children.