These include Olga Rudge, Isadora Duncan, Dorothy Kilgallen, Cynthia Beck, and Bruna Palombo.
You can bring up posts about these women by clicking on the label extra-matrimonial children.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL YOU MISTRESSES OUT THERE!
Sunday, September 27, 2020
GUCCI FAMILY SECRET OF MOLESTATION REVEALED BY ALEXANDRA ZARINI
LA TIMES : GUCCI FAMILY SECRET - MOLESTATION
EXCERPT: One of Aldo Gucci's granddaughters, Alexandra Zarini, this week spotlighted another horror in the family history with a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Zarini, 35, alleged that from the time she was 6. her former stepfather, Joseph Ruffalo, sexually assaulted her at home in Beverly Hills - abuse that she typically knew was coming when she heard the ice clinking in his glass of scotch as he made his way toward her bedroom, according to court papers.
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Missy here. This blog has been overwhelmed with hits on my posts about Aldo Gucci, Patricia Gucci, and Bruna Polombo, the long time mistress of Aldo. This hits are coming in especially from Italy, curiously a country that I usually don't get a lot of hits from. I want to acknowledge that there is great interest in this latest story about the Gucci family. You can read more at the link above, from the Los Angeles Times, and there are a great many more articles from other media sources on this story.
Friday, June 26, 2020
THE ISSUE OF CHILDREN : SHOULD YOU BE A MISTRESS? : OPINION BY MISSY
OPINION by MISSY
A question a woman should ask herself, and ask yourself this every few months while you still can, is DO I WANT CHILDREN? If so HOW MANY?
I was reading an interview that Kris Jenner "Momager" to the daughters who have all become rich over reality TV, endorsement, speaking engagements, commercials, and products they are associated with and own. She says she always knew she wanted many children.
Kris is a modern woman and she had to know that she would need a well-to-do husband to afford having many children. Luckily she married lawyer and businessman Robert Kardashian and he could afford having many children. Then she married Bruce Jenner, the superb athlete, who also gave her children, as well as giving another woman children and he also could afford to do so. None of these people seemed to be interested in limiting their family to one or two children, which is the fashionable choice (I think because children are barely affordable by most people.) There is a lot of pressure on women to have children as what is "normal" womanhood but there is also a lot of pressure in society to limit a family for ecological means.
A Mistress may have a relationship with a man who has enough money to afford children, or more children, but he may not want a second family because having children makes it more difficult to keep the relationship a secret and implies life-long connection.
Some of the mistresses I've covered here at MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT, have had extramarital children with the men who Kept them, such as BRUNA PALOMBA (Mistress of the Month August 2017) who had one daughter and Gordon Getty's Mistress CYNTHIA BECK Mistress of the Month February 2019 who had daughters. I admire the responsibility shown to these children by their fathers. (A longer list of Mistresses who had children is below.)
A woman should be using contraception until she is ready, willing, and able to be a mother. If she is not independently rich herself, she especially should be considering whether her partner is also ready, willing, and able to be a father. It means discussion.
Yet, though contraception (and abortion) has allowed Western women to have more choice, contraception has been known to fail or a particular contraception is medically ill advised and sometimes a woman just finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. When a woman wants to have a child and her man insists on an abortion or puts her in a position where she knows she will be stranded and alone trying to raise a child she personally cannot afford there is a lot of pressure on her to choose his way. (And I tire of hearing women blamed as if the men where not there.)
Yet, and I think this also has to do with money, if a woman is a Mistress and the man loves her and can afford to, he sometimes feels that he ought to allow her to go forward and have their child. He feels he should not rob her of the experience of having and raising a child and if he is much older he often sees that with a child she may not be alone in her own old age (though having a child does not guarantee they will care for a parent.)
If you are a young woman and you want a child or children, seriously communicate this with any man you get involved with. If a man wants to Keep you he especially needs to hear this. You need to keep your independence and find a way to support yourself so that you can leave him if you feel you are loosing years of your life in wait for him to change his mind about having a child with you or maybe leaving his other relationships, etc. You should be out there meeting people and dating, not staying in a relationship that will not bring you happiness since having children is one of the things that would make you happy.
Here is a list of past Mistress of the Month candidates who have had children.
November 2009
Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart Birley Goldsmith (The last two surnames are her married names.) Jimmy Goldsmith stole her from her husband, a busy restaurant and club owner, and she let him. Annabel had a child with Jimmy while married to Birley, and had more children with Goldsmith later. Her daughter by this liaison, a friend of Princess Diana, has publicly thanked her for having her.
September 2010
Nicole Coste, Mistress of Prince Albert II of Monaco and Mother of his first son. Since they never married this son cannot take the throne of Monaco but back in the day before he was married to the present Princess who has had twins, reports were that Albert took an interest in his son with Nicole. Now this old relationship seems to be kept out of the media.
May 2011
Karin Stanford, College Professor who had a child with Reverend Jesse Jackson. Both Karin and Jesse have barely been in the media for years.
November 2011
Madeleine Duncan Brown, Mistress and Secrets Keeper of Lyndon Baines Johnson (President of the United States) and Mother of their son.
My understanding is that the son did not live long enough to be there for her in her old age.
July 2013
Marion Davies, Mistress of William Randolph Heart and His California Castle. A woman named Patricia who was raised by Marion's sister said she was told upon her wedding by Marion that Hearst was her real father. She looked like him. She died a while back and there was a claim against the estate by her grandchildren. This story also seems to have disappeared from the media.
May 2015 -
Marita Lorenz, Mistress of Fidel Castro and General Marcos Peres Jimenes turned CIA collaborator. I once got a message from someone saying she was Marita's daughter and that a film was being made about her mother's life.
A question a woman should ask herself, and ask yourself this every few months while you still can, is DO I WANT CHILDREN? If so HOW MANY?
I was reading an interview that Kris Jenner "Momager" to the daughters who have all become rich over reality TV, endorsement, speaking engagements, commercials, and products they are associated with and own. She says she always knew she wanted many children.
Kris is a modern woman and she had to know that she would need a well-to-do husband to afford having many children. Luckily she married lawyer and businessman Robert Kardashian and he could afford having many children. Then she married Bruce Jenner, the superb athlete, who also gave her children, as well as giving another woman children and he also could afford to do so. None of these people seemed to be interested in limiting their family to one or two children, which is the fashionable choice (I think because children are barely affordable by most people.) There is a lot of pressure on women to have children as what is "normal" womanhood but there is also a lot of pressure in society to limit a family for ecological means.
A Mistress may have a relationship with a man who has enough money to afford children, or more children, but he may not want a second family because having children makes it more difficult to keep the relationship a secret and implies life-long connection.
Some of the mistresses I've covered here at MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT, have had extramarital children with the men who Kept them, such as BRUNA PALOMBA (Mistress of the Month August 2017) who had one daughter and Gordon Getty's Mistress CYNTHIA BECK Mistress of the Month February 2019 who had daughters. I admire the responsibility shown to these children by their fathers. (A longer list of Mistresses who had children is below.)
A woman should be using contraception until she is ready, willing, and able to be a mother. If she is not independently rich herself, she especially should be considering whether her partner is also ready, willing, and able to be a father. It means discussion.
Yet, though contraception (and abortion) has allowed Western women to have more choice, contraception has been known to fail or a particular contraception is medically ill advised and sometimes a woman just finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. When a woman wants to have a child and her man insists on an abortion or puts her in a position where she knows she will be stranded and alone trying to raise a child she personally cannot afford there is a lot of pressure on her to choose his way. (And I tire of hearing women blamed as if the men where not there.)
Yet, and I think this also has to do with money, if a woman is a Mistress and the man loves her and can afford to, he sometimes feels that he ought to allow her to go forward and have their child. He feels he should not rob her of the experience of having and raising a child and if he is much older he often sees that with a child she may not be alone in her own old age (though having a child does not guarantee they will care for a parent.)
If you are a young woman and you want a child or children, seriously communicate this with any man you get involved with. If a man wants to Keep you he especially needs to hear this. You need to keep your independence and find a way to support yourself so that you can leave him if you feel you are loosing years of your life in wait for him to change his mind about having a child with you or maybe leaving his other relationships, etc. You should be out there meeting people and dating, not staying in a relationship that will not bring you happiness since having children is one of the things that would make you happy.
Here is a list of past Mistress of the Month candidates who have had children.
November 2009
Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart Birley Goldsmith (The last two surnames are her married names.) Jimmy Goldsmith stole her from her husband, a busy restaurant and club owner, and she let him. Annabel had a child with Jimmy while married to Birley, and had more children with Goldsmith later. Her daughter by this liaison, a friend of Princess Diana, has publicly thanked her for having her.
September 2010
Nicole Coste, Mistress of Prince Albert II of Monaco and Mother of his first son. Since they never married this son cannot take the throne of Monaco but back in the day before he was married to the present Princess who has had twins, reports were that Albert took an interest in his son with Nicole. Now this old relationship seems to be kept out of the media.
May 2011
Karin Stanford, College Professor who had a child with Reverend Jesse Jackson. Both Karin and Jesse have barely been in the media for years.
November 2011
Madeleine Duncan Brown, Mistress and Secrets Keeper of Lyndon Baines Johnson (President of the United States) and Mother of their son.
My understanding is that the son did not live long enough to be there for her in her old age.
July 2013
Marion Davies, Mistress of William Randolph Heart and His California Castle. A woman named Patricia who was raised by Marion's sister said she was told upon her wedding by Marion that Hearst was her real father. She looked like him. She died a while back and there was a claim against the estate by her grandchildren. This story also seems to have disappeared from the media.
May 2015 -
Marita Lorenz, Mistress of Fidel Castro and General Marcos Peres Jimenes turned CIA collaborator. I once got a message from someone saying she was Marita's daughter and that a film was being made about her mother's life.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
PAMELA DIGBY as well as AGNELLI and HARRIMAN : SOME GREAT ARTICLES TO READ AROUND THE SUBJECT
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/guest-diary/2016/the-courtesan-and-the-consort EXCERPT: Still, men of the World War II generation were enthralled by her as most ached with Churchill-envy, and knew she was the closest they’d ever get to the great man himself. Women, usually, felt over-matched, and they resented her. Not simply because she ignored them, but because she had a past — a vivid, exotic sex-filled past — which had allowed her to accrue wealth from a variety of rich lovers, most of whom were married.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/to-war-in-silk-stockings-kathleen-mortimer THIS ONE IS ABOUT AVERILL HARRIMAN's DAUGHTER, who was friends with Pamela.
EXCERPT:
Daughter of aristocratic titan Averell Harriman, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was born to wealth, beauty, and blueblood values. But when her father plunged into the politics of World War II as President Roosevelt’s special envoy to Britain and later the ambassador to Russia, she went with him, going from working as a wide-eyed ingénue reporter to enchanting both Churchill and Stalin. After Mortimer’s death last February, and with exclusive access to her previously unknown scrapbooks, Marie Brenner excavates the heiress’s backstage pass to history, including Averell’s affair with Churchill’s daughter-in-law, the legendary Pamela, who would be his last wife. (This article originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of Vanity Fair.)
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/08/agnelli200808
THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE AGNELLI FORTUNE... Agnelli being one of Pamela's men who kept her, as well as the keeper of Bruna Palombo (a Mistress of the Month here at Mistress Manifesto)
EXCERPT: The Agnellis are a study in dysfunction. Gianni, the international titan and epic playboy of a father, turned the family company, Fiat, into a business machine that transformed postwar Italy into the world’s fifth-strongest economic nation and himself into a colossus of power, privilege, and style. His wife, Marella, a Neapolitan princess turned model, photographer, and taste-maker, who was immortalized by Richard Avedon as one of the world’s most beautiful women, and who became one of Truman Capote’s close confidantes (known as his “swans”), was portrayed by Isabella Rossellini in Douglas McGrath’s 2006 film about Capote, Infamous. Attempting to hold her own in the face of her husband’s sexual wanderlust, Marella once told a biographer, “For Gianni, a woman is to be conquered, not to be loved.”
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https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/to-war-in-silk-stockings-kathleen-mortimer THIS ONE IS ABOUT AVERILL HARRIMAN's DAUGHTER, who was friends with Pamela.
EXCERPT:
Daughter of aristocratic titan Averell Harriman, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was born to wealth, beauty, and blueblood values. But when her father plunged into the politics of World War II as President Roosevelt’s special envoy to Britain and later the ambassador to Russia, she went with him, going from working as a wide-eyed ingénue reporter to enchanting both Churchill and Stalin. After Mortimer’s death last February, and with exclusive access to her previously unknown scrapbooks, Marie Brenner excavates the heiress’s backstage pass to history, including Averell’s affair with Churchill’s daughter-in-law, the legendary Pamela, who would be his last wife. (This article originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of Vanity Fair.)
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/08/agnelli200808
THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE AGNELLI FORTUNE... Agnelli being one of Pamela's men who kept her, as well as the keeper of Bruna Palombo (a Mistress of the Month here at Mistress Manifesto)
EXCERPT: The Agnellis are a study in dysfunction. Gianni, the international titan and epic playboy of a father, turned the family company, Fiat, into a business machine that transformed postwar Italy into the world’s fifth-strongest economic nation and himself into a colossus of power, privilege, and style. His wife, Marella, a Neapolitan princess turned model, photographer, and taste-maker, who was immortalized by Richard Avedon as one of the world’s most beautiful women, and who became one of Truman Capote’s close confidantes (known as his “swans”), was portrayed by Isabella Rossellini in Douglas McGrath’s 2006 film about Capote, Infamous. Attempting to hold her own in the face of her husband’s sexual wanderlust, Marella once told a biographer, “For Gianni, a woman is to be conquered, not to be loved.”
Thursday, August 24, 2017
AT THE FUNERAL WIFE AND MISTRESS WERE THERE
Excerpts and Notes from Patricia Gucci's memoir "In The Name of Gucci."
When Aldo, his first wife Olwen Price, a woman of English heritage, and their three sons, Giorgio, Paolo, and Roberto were at the funeral, as were Patricia and her mother. Patricia was now 26 years old and pregnant with her second child.
"Eager to pay tribute to my mother, he'd penned his own obituary to be issued upon his death. Aldo Gucci, he wrote, left behind his wife, Bruna Palombo, and his companion, Olwen Price." (4)
According to Patricia the reversal of the truth was intentional but the New York Times caught the error and printed, "Mr. Gucci is survived by his wife, the former Olwen Price, and three sons," not mentioning Patricia and Bruna at all. (4)
In 2009 when Patricia visited her mother in Rome, where Bruna was living out her life, Bruna gave her a gift of all the love letters Aldo had written to her and telegrams he had sent to her in the early passion of their romance circa 1958-1961, when Patricia had been conceived. (8)
Missy
When Aldo, his first wife Olwen Price, a woman of English heritage, and their three sons, Giorgio, Paolo, and Roberto were at the funeral, as were Patricia and her mother. Patricia was now 26 years old and pregnant with her second child.
"Eager to pay tribute to my mother, he'd penned his own obituary to be issued upon his death. Aldo Gucci, he wrote, left behind his wife, Bruna Palombo, and his companion, Olwen Price." (4)
According to Patricia the reversal of the truth was intentional but the New York Times caught the error and printed, "Mr. Gucci is survived by his wife, the former Olwen Price, and three sons," not mentioning Patricia and Bruna at all. (4)
In 2009 when Patricia visited her mother in Rome, where Bruna was living out her life, Bruna gave her a gift of all the love letters Aldo had written to her and telegrams he had sent to her in the early passion of their romance circa 1958-1961, when Patricia had been conceived. (8)
NOTE June 2022
I'm not infallible but I do try to read any books or other materials I reference cover to cover, take notes, and choose excerpts and detail my reportage correctly. I'm aware that on some of my select subjects there are other books or other media that might say something different. So, if there is anyone out there who thinks something I've posted is incorrect, please send a link to your reference so I can read it too and evaluate it.
Please read my comments policy. I do not ever publish on the world wide web anyone's e-mail address or personal contact information.
Thanks!
Missy
Monday, August 21, 2017
DECLARATION FOR MISTRESSES : Lonely or Alone?
"I love my own company when I can't be out with Him or my friends."
It seems to me that one must decide if they are alone or lonely. These two are assumed to be the same but they are not. I know people who love to be alone. Often that's because they love their own company and revel in all the things one does best alone, such as reading and writing, or indulging their creativity by painting, knitting, sewing. I have one friend who still goes to movies in theaters and loves to go alone. Some people however simply like to be in other people's company most of the time. If that's you, then you probably have a lot of friends because you need people. If you're in a relationship with someone who is gone more often than not, and you're feeling lonely, maybe more lonely than you would be in you were not in that relationship, it's time to reconsider. Such a relationship is probably against your nature and will get to you and bring you down eventually.
Our Mistress of the Month Bruna Palombo seems to have been secluded. While it was not in her nature to enjoy social life, she certainly needed to have a few good friends to keep her company and accept her lifestyle as she came to.
Today's women certainly have more opportunity to be out in the world and full of life that women of her era. So evaluate yourself. Be alone but not lonely.
C 2017 Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot
Our Mistress of the Month Bruna Palombo seems to have been secluded. While it was not in her nature to enjoy social life, she certainly needed to have a few good friends to keep her company and accept her lifestyle as she came to.
Today's women certainly have more opportunity to be out in the world and full of life that women of her era. So evaluate yourself. Be alone but not lonely.
C 2017 Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot
Saturday, August 19, 2017
WIFE AND MISTRESS LEARN THERE IS ANOTHER MISTRESS IN ALDO'S LIFE
Missy's Notes and Quotes from "In the Name of Gucci" by Patricia Gucci:
Some people think "once a cheat, always a cheat." I don't think that is true. Some people cheat because they are with the wrong person for them and very unhappy and it's their way out, perhaps not the most honorable way, but their way. Others were never meant to be monogamous by nature and need to realize that about themselves and proceed honestly with the people they meet.
However, in the story of Aldo Gucci's Mistress, Bruna Palombo, who'se a Classic Mistress Kept from early womanhood and all her life, and Aldo's one and only wife Olwen Gucci, there is yet another woman, another Mistress, who provides more competition for them both. In Patricia's memoir, her mother's discovery of this third woman in Aldo's life comes after she has met her much older half brothers. At that point Bruna and Olwen have separate lives with Aldo but he has done what he promised and united the children from his two families with the introduction. The third woman will challenge Bruna's long held assumption that she was "the one."
Patricia tells us that Olwen and Bruna both stopped trusting Aldo. (160) Patricia's father visited her and her mother less, a sign that there was trouble, and I imagine especially unnerving because she is so dependent upon him. Bruna knew he'd had "dalliances" in the past too and she'd overheard and seen suspicious things. Bruna was afraid to make an issue and Patricia's friends also seemed to have fathers who could not be monogamous. Were all men this way?
The man had nerve. After hearing that he had set this woman up in an apartment and bought her expensive things including works of art and jewelry, Bruna was shocked to find out that Aldo had taken her out to dinner and introduced her to the new woman without explaining who she was in his life. (161) She also found photos of the woman on a trip to Palm Beach and wasn't Palm Beach just supposed to be for Bruna and Aldo?
After all the seclusion, after all the privacy that Bruna had complied with and desired, this blonde was being seen all around openly with Aldo. She had her informants and her notes. The explosive showdown was now not between the classy Olwen and Bruna, but Bruna and Aldo. He refused to admit what he was up to until she had an "explosive" argument with him and presented to him the details of all she knew. Finally, confronted with dates, locations, everything, he admitted he had this other Mistress!
"We were completely on our own with no legal rights." (171)
During crisis Patricia was sent back to boarding school.
*** It's true that Mistresses do not have the legal rights of a wife. I think about why gay people have fought so hard for the right to be legally married. I think the only way for a Mistress to have legal rights is to become the wife or for us to allow legal marriage to more than one person at a time. I admit this is probably more complicated than the gay marriage issue. Missy
Some people think "once a cheat, always a cheat." I don't think that is true. Some people cheat because they are with the wrong person for them and very unhappy and it's their way out, perhaps not the most honorable way, but their way. Others were never meant to be monogamous by nature and need to realize that about themselves and proceed honestly with the people they meet.
However, in the story of Aldo Gucci's Mistress, Bruna Palombo, who'se a Classic Mistress Kept from early womanhood and all her life, and Aldo's one and only wife Olwen Gucci, there is yet another woman, another Mistress, who provides more competition for them both. In Patricia's memoir, her mother's discovery of this third woman in Aldo's life comes after she has met her much older half brothers. At that point Bruna and Olwen have separate lives with Aldo but he has done what he promised and united the children from his two families with the introduction. The third woman will challenge Bruna's long held assumption that she was "the one."
Patricia tells us that Olwen and Bruna both stopped trusting Aldo. (160) Patricia's father visited her and her mother less, a sign that there was trouble, and I imagine especially unnerving because she is so dependent upon him. Bruna knew he'd had "dalliances" in the past too and she'd overheard and seen suspicious things. Bruna was afraid to make an issue and Patricia's friends also seemed to have fathers who could not be monogamous. Were all men this way?
The man had nerve. After hearing that he had set this woman up in an apartment and bought her expensive things including works of art and jewelry, Bruna was shocked to find out that Aldo had taken her out to dinner and introduced her to the new woman without explaining who she was in his life. (161) She also found photos of the woman on a trip to Palm Beach and wasn't Palm Beach just supposed to be for Bruna and Aldo?
After all the seclusion, after all the privacy that Bruna had complied with and desired, this blonde was being seen all around openly with Aldo. She had her informants and her notes. The explosive showdown was now not between the classy Olwen and Bruna, but Bruna and Aldo. He refused to admit what he was up to until she had an "explosive" argument with him and presented to him the details of all she knew. Finally, confronted with dates, locations, everything, he admitted he had this other Mistress!
"We were completely on our own with no legal rights." (171)
During crisis Patricia was sent back to boarding school.
*** It's true that Mistresses do not have the legal rights of a wife. I think about why gay people have fought so hard for the right to be legally married. I think the only way for a Mistress to have legal rights is to become the wife or for us to allow legal marriage to more than one person at a time. I admit this is probably more complicated than the gay marriage issue. Missy
Sunday, August 13, 2017
THE FOURTY EIGHT HOURS WITH ALDO "COMPRESSED VISITS"
Missy's Notes and Quotes from "In the Name of Gucci," a memoir by Patricia Gucci.
Many children find themselves outside of marriage and awaiting visits from a parent. Patricia Gucci was one of those children, because her mother Bruna Palombo was a Mistress, set up first to live in England. Aldo Gucci, a long married man who Kept Bruna visited them about once a month for a weekend. Patricia calls these visits "compressed."
Patricia says no sooner he came through the door, her mother would start complaining about her and she would be banished to her bedroom. (133) She realized in adulthood that her mother was in seclusion for weeks and had a lot to talk to him about. "She rants, vents, they have a fight and reconcile all in forty-eight hours." This was their pattern, but finally he would relax and Bruna would spoil him. She "nurtured him and gave him safe harbor."
"He'd leave and the days were dark. Without his affection, my mother withered like an unattended plant." (136)
Eventually so that Bruna could travel with Aldo, Patricia was put into a boarding school where she found herself with "lots of kindred spirits." She loved it. (137) When the family moved back to Rome in 1973, Patricia was heartbroken. (149)
When Patricia was ten years old, Bruna finally told her, "Your father has a wife in Italy and three sons," and admitted she wasn't married to him. (151)
*** Are you the child of a Mistress? We'd like to hear your story.
Many children find themselves outside of marriage and awaiting visits from a parent. Patricia Gucci was one of those children, because her mother Bruna Palombo was a Mistress, set up first to live in England. Aldo Gucci, a long married man who Kept Bruna visited them about once a month for a weekend. Patricia calls these visits "compressed."
Patricia says no sooner he came through the door, her mother would start complaining about her and she would be banished to her bedroom. (133) She realized in adulthood that her mother was in seclusion for weeks and had a lot to talk to him about. "She rants, vents, they have a fight and reconcile all in forty-eight hours." This was their pattern, but finally he would relax and Bruna would spoil him. She "nurtured him and gave him safe harbor."
"He'd leave and the days were dark. Without his affection, my mother withered like an unattended plant." (136)
Eventually so that Bruna could travel with Aldo, Patricia was put into a boarding school where she found herself with "lots of kindred spirits." She loved it. (137) When the family moved back to Rome in 1973, Patricia was heartbroken. (149)
When Patricia was ten years old, Bruna finally told her, "Your father has a wife in Italy and three sons," and admitted she wasn't married to him. (151)
*** Are you the child of a Mistress? We'd like to hear your story.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
THE BIRTH OF PATRICIA GUCCI - ALDO's WIFE OLWEN CLAIMS HIM
Notes and Excerpts from PATRICIA GUCCI's book.
In 1963 Patricia was born in England where her father Aldo Gucci, had set up her mother Bruna Palombo, as his Mistress. Bruna wondered if he would not abandon them as while he grew his company, his letters had stopped coming and he didn't see her as much. (101) But he was there when she was christened in Saint Mary's Catholic Church and his inner circle were there as guests. (102) Aldo may have lied to the priest. When she was 28 days old they flew back to Rome and a Spanish nanny was assigned to take the baby out in a pram while Bruna lived in secret. (103)
"Olwen (Aldo's wife of 40 years) sent a woman to the Rome apartment to tell Bruna that she knew about her and the baby. "Signora Gucci feels that it would be in everyone's best interests if you gave up all claim to her husband... If you can't care for your child on your own, Signora Gucci is prepared to take her off your hands..." (104)
"He snapped and went to tell off his wife..." But Bruna started saving money incase. A British nanny was hired. Olwen never interfered again... (107-108)
Bruna felt that close women friends of hers had betrayed her.
In 1963 Patricia was born in England where her father Aldo Gucci, had set up her mother Bruna Palombo, as his Mistress. Bruna wondered if he would not abandon them as while he grew his company, his letters had stopped coming and he didn't see her as much. (101) But he was there when she was christened in Saint Mary's Catholic Church and his inner circle were there as guests. (102) Aldo may have lied to the priest. When she was 28 days old they flew back to Rome and a Spanish nanny was assigned to take the baby out in a pram while Bruna lived in secret. (103)
"Olwen (Aldo's wife of 40 years) sent a woman to the Rome apartment to tell Bruna that she knew about her and the baby. "Signora Gucci feels that it would be in everyone's best interests if you gave up all claim to her husband... If you can't care for your child on your own, Signora Gucci is prepared to take her off your hands..." (104)
"He snapped and went to tell off his wife..." But Bruna started saving money incase. A British nanny was hired. Olwen never interfered again... (107-108)
Bruna felt that close women friends of hers had betrayed her.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
THE SECLUDED BRUNA PALOMBO - A LIFE TIME OF MISTRESSING - ALDO GUCCI
UPDATE
DAILY MAIL: PATRICIA GUCCI - PAPA HAS A WIFE AND THREE SONS
BRUNA PALOMBO's story is that of the CLASSIC MISTRESS, the woman who becomes the Mistress of a successful older man when she is young and is financially secure and cared for, for the rest of her life. She never needs to have another man for all the years that this man is alive and she is financially cared for beyond his death. She is very much like a traditional wife in that way. She doesn't have much experience in relationships with men prior to meeting him. She doesn't feel the need to seek other relationships, even when he does.
Bruna Palombo was seduced by Aldo Gucci, founder of the famous fashion house that specialized in shoes, luggage, carry bags, and accessories, when he was her boss and she was a youthful virgin with a fiancée. She was raised to be a proper Italian girl who would go along with the usual plan of loyalty and faithfulness to just one man but there were red flags that her relationship with her fiancée had been played out and would not result in happiness.
Her mother suspected something was going on between her daughter and Aldo while she was still living at home. Maybe it was the occasional expensive and fine gift she had been given that she brought home. Bruna's father had died. Perhaps it was pragmatic of her mother to not protest too much either when it became clear she would not marry her fiancée and be with Aldo instead.
Instead of marriage, which he could not offer her since he already was married to his first wife, Olwen Price, with whom Aldo and had three sons, Aldo offered Bruna the next best thing, to be his Mistress. Not long after this he predictably retired her.
Aldo established a second household and family with Bruna in Britain, where their only child, daughter Patricia, went to school. He was sure to visit them as much as possible, which was generally about once a month for a long weekend. Patricia says that they were so happy during his visits, but between those visits they just went on with their daily lives, a mother and daughter alone, without that happiness.
Aldo had a secret, and like many men who are the founders of families and family businesses, and are much older than their Mistress, there were employees who knew or suspected what was going on, who were sure to either accept this relationship of his or stay out of his private life. This was none of their business.
The day would come when his wife, the former Olwen Price, and first family, would have to accept things as they were, because Aldo acknowledged Patricia. He wanted to live more openly with Bruna. He wanted Patricia to meet her half brothers and slowly integrate this beautiful and intelligent daughter into the Gucci family business in some way, which he did as she reached adulthood herself and he expanded to America.(The sons were in their forties when Patricia finally met them.) As a teenager Patricia went to boarding school and spent summers with friends, so she and her mom were living separate lives. As an adult she felt she had been deprived of love as a child. She did move forward into becoming a Gucci public relations person, going to events to represent the Gucci company and her father.
Aldo Gucci had also seduced Olwen, in 1927 when she was working as a personal assistant to Princess Elizabeth of Romania, who felt obligated to protect her. It was the princess who had shown up in Florence, Italy to speak to Aldo's father, who had begun the Gucci empire as a small family business of leather luxury goods. His father considered him to be a womanizer and feared he would hurt the family reputation. Aldo married Olwen. ***
Patricia describes her mother Bruna as a gentle and perhaps fragile woman who did live for and around Aldo and who appreciated fine things but also hated, but endured, social people and parties. She was a private and retiring person, who I suspect was also depressed. Patricia turned out to be the more gregarious person, like her father, whose personality was very much a part of his success.
Olwen Price, Aldo's wife, was also a loyal and faithful Italian*** woman who did not want a divorce. Olwen seemed to be afraid to make an issue of Bruna, accepting that Italian men thought it acceptable to have a mistress. However, she did let Bruna know she knew about her and Patricia, that they were no secret to her. A go-between told Bruna it would be best if she turned Patricia over to Olwen's care. So Aldo separated the two women and families by establishing Bruna in England.
Patricia got her independence and lived apart from her parents. As an adult, she felt her mother had been unable to cope with raising her, that Bruna was dependent on Aldo for absolutely everything and rather helpless.
Eventually the plan was for Olwen to stay in Italy and for Aldo and Bruna to leave Britain and live together in Palm Beach, Florida. This they did. It was as if Bruna was his wife in America. He publicly referred to her as his wife there. He also managed to stage a marriage ceremony that was questionable.
In November of 1981, twenty five years after they first met, Aldo married Bruna in a hotel suite. He denied that he had married her to his sons. Meanwhile, Olwen fought for her marriage. Aldo found out his marriage to Olwen might be invalid but it was, so that invalidated this "marriage" to Bruna. "Someone went to England to obtain the marriage certificate there and seventy-three year old Olwen took it to Rome and recorded the document there." (197) Yet Bruna was not entirely without feeling for Olwen. She insisted that Aldo call her every Sunday and not neglect her. (Page 198)
For both Olwen and Bruna, who came to accept that they were man sharing and had very different relationships with him, it was the fact that Aldo had yet another Mistress that threatened to unsettle everyone's existence.
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PATRICIA GUCCI wrote about her childhood,
her mother BRUNA PALOMBO, and her parents relationship in her book,
"In The Name of Gucci."
She has done well,after some soul searching, as the
acknowledged love child of ALDO GUCCI.
Image from Google Images and appears in the book which is C Patricia Gucci.
ALDO GUCCI, MISTRESS BRUNA PALOMBO, and their daughter PATRICIA
BRUNA PALOMBO's story is that of the CLASSIC MISTRESS, the woman who becomes the Mistress of a successful older man when she is young and is financially secure and cared for, for the rest of her life. She never needs to have another man for all the years that this man is alive and she is financially cared for beyond his death. She is very much like a traditional wife in that way. She doesn't have much experience in relationships with men prior to meeting him. She doesn't feel the need to seek other relationships, even when he does.
Bruna Palombo was seduced by Aldo Gucci, founder of the famous fashion house that specialized in shoes, luggage, carry bags, and accessories, when he was her boss and she was a youthful virgin with a fiancée. She was raised to be a proper Italian girl who would go along with the usual plan of loyalty and faithfulness to just one man but there were red flags that her relationship with her fiancée had been played out and would not result in happiness.
Her mother suspected something was going on between her daughter and Aldo while she was still living at home. Maybe it was the occasional expensive and fine gift she had been given that she brought home. Bruna's father had died. Perhaps it was pragmatic of her mother to not protest too much either when it became clear she would not marry her fiancée and be with Aldo instead.
Instead of marriage, which he could not offer her since he already was married to his first wife, Olwen Price, with whom Aldo and had three sons, Aldo offered Bruna the next best thing, to be his Mistress. Not long after this he predictably retired her.
Aldo established a second household and family with Bruna in Britain, where their only child, daughter Patricia, went to school. He was sure to visit them as much as possible, which was generally about once a month for a long weekend. Patricia says that they were so happy during his visits, but between those visits they just went on with their daily lives, a mother and daughter alone, without that happiness.
Aldo had a secret, and like many men who are the founders of families and family businesses, and are much older than their Mistress, there were employees who knew or suspected what was going on, who were sure to either accept this relationship of his or stay out of his private life. This was none of their business.
The day would come when his wife, the former Olwen Price, and first family, would have to accept things as they were, because Aldo acknowledged Patricia. He wanted to live more openly with Bruna. He wanted Patricia to meet her half brothers and slowly integrate this beautiful and intelligent daughter into the Gucci family business in some way, which he did as she reached adulthood herself and he expanded to America.(The sons were in their forties when Patricia finally met them.) As a teenager Patricia went to boarding school and spent summers with friends, so she and her mom were living separate lives. As an adult she felt she had been deprived of love as a child. She did move forward into becoming a Gucci public relations person, going to events to represent the Gucci company and her father.
Aldo Gucci had also seduced Olwen, in 1927 when she was working as a personal assistant to Princess Elizabeth of Romania, who felt obligated to protect her. It was the princess who had shown up in Florence, Italy to speak to Aldo's father, who had begun the Gucci empire as a small family business of leather luxury goods. His father considered him to be a womanizer and feared he would hurt the family reputation. Aldo married Olwen. ***
Patricia describes her mother Bruna as a gentle and perhaps fragile woman who did live for and around Aldo and who appreciated fine things but also hated, but endured, social people and parties. She was a private and retiring person, who I suspect was also depressed. Patricia turned out to be the more gregarious person, like her father, whose personality was very much a part of his success.
Olwen Price, Aldo's wife, was also a loyal and faithful Italian*** woman who did not want a divorce. Olwen seemed to be afraid to make an issue of Bruna, accepting that Italian men thought it acceptable to have a mistress. However, she did let Bruna know she knew about her and Patricia, that they were no secret to her. A go-between told Bruna it would be best if she turned Patricia over to Olwen's care. So Aldo separated the two women and families by establishing Bruna in England.
Patricia got her independence and lived apart from her parents. As an adult, she felt her mother had been unable to cope with raising her, that Bruna was dependent on Aldo for absolutely everything and rather helpless.
Eventually the plan was for Olwen to stay in Italy and for Aldo and Bruna to leave Britain and live together in Palm Beach, Florida. This they did. It was as if Bruna was his wife in America. He publicly referred to her as his wife there. He also managed to stage a marriage ceremony that was questionable.
In November of 1981, twenty five years after they first met, Aldo married Bruna in a hotel suite. He denied that he had married her to his sons. Meanwhile, Olwen fought for her marriage. Aldo found out his marriage to Olwen might be invalid but it was, so that invalidated this "marriage" to Bruna. "Someone went to England to obtain the marriage certificate there and seventy-three year old Olwen took it to Rome and recorded the document there." (197) Yet Bruna was not entirely without feeling for Olwen. She insisted that Aldo call her every Sunday and not neglect her. (Page 198)
For both Olwen and Bruna, who came to accept that they were man sharing and had very different relationships with him, it was the fact that Aldo had yet another Mistress that threatened to unsettle everyone's existence.
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Quick note here because this is such a popular post. I cannot contact people who claim relationship with the Gucci family, or Bruna Palombo, or Olwen's for genealogy - contact purposes. The book was written by a Aldo and Bruna's daughter. I suggest that you read her book for yourself and try to send her a letter via the publisher or her agent. Having some familiarity with genealogy in general, I can say that sometimes various stories come forth that are not in agreement. For the purposes of this blog, which explores the alternative lifestyle of Kept Women and Men, and so on, I select one or more books, read them cover to cover, and try to be judicious in my excerpts and note-taking. Sometimes I'm a bit more side-taking, questioning, or opinion-making in my narrative. I think the books I select are worth reading and that you may be interested in doing so too! I'm most often not in personal contact with the various persons I choose as subjects or the authors of the books. Missy
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August 2022: I'm currently reading, via audio book, THE HOUSE OF GUCCI. So far everything I've read is in agreement with this post. However I just moved a sentence up as a matter of editing and wish to note the following.
*** Olwen's nationality or ethnic heritage was English/British, however she had been living in Italy and would continue to do so, so she lived in Italian and Gucci family culture, in which the wife was/is generally faithful and loyal even if the husband is not. And while Bruna's nationality or ethnic heritage was Italian, Aldo had her and/or Patricia living in Britain (and sometimes America).
*** According to House of Gucci, Aldo and Olwen were about 21 when they married and their marriage soon became unhappy. It also says that Aldo had taken Bruna with him to New York when he started expanding to America by opening a New York store.
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