He has two yachts, jokes of being a billion dollars in debt, and claims to have slept with 2,000 women. Now the playboy heir to the Ray-Ban fortune is at war with his late father’s handpicked C.E.O.

By Tom Haynes

Behind the sleek sunglasses and effortless glamor inextricably linked with the Ray-Ban name lies a messy family feud that is anything but stylish. “My father gave us everything, but not love,” declared Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, one of the heirs to the family empire in a podcast interview with Italian rapper Fedez that invited comparisons with the TV drama Succession.

As well as the revelations about his relationship with his father, the eccentric 31-year-old billionaire also boasted of sleeping with more than 2,000 women and owning two yachts, while joking that he had debts of around $1.1 billion. But READ ON