The Italian-born Ray-Ban heir claims that soap star Jessica Serfaty told her billionaire ex-fiancé Leonardo Maria del Vecchio over the summer that she was pregnant but was unsure whether the child was fathered by him or another man.
DelVecchio, 31, told The Washington Post in an interview that he was hanging out on his yacht moored near the Mediterranean island of Sardinia in August when Serfaty called him from Los Angeles with the urgent news.
The call sparked a row in which DelVecchio, whose fortune is estimated at more than $5 billion, said he chartered a private jet to fly Serfaty and a team of doctors to Sardinia for a series of paternity tests, including one on his yacht, that ultimately showed he was not the father.
Although no longer a couple, DelVecchio said he and Serfaty slept together in Monaco in early July while staying at the Hotel Paris in Monte Carlo.
Immediately afterwards, Serfaty — who has appeared on “America’s Next Top Model” and played attorney Sloan Peterson on “Days of Our Lives” — flew to Rome, where she slept with another man, who, according to DelVecchio, was a liquor tycoon.
A recording of a phone call between DelVecchio and Serfaty seen by The Washington Post also shows her admitting to the encounter.
“I had sex with Jessica on the Fourth or Fifth of July. Then she flew to Rome, apparently to meet this guy,” DelVecchio told The Washington Post. “A month later she said, ‘I’m pregnant – it could be you, it could be him.'”
The accusations come as DelVecchio faces accusations that he hired a reputation manager to malign his ex-fiancée, including spreading claims online that she was a prostitute — allegations that were detailed in a recent investigation by The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times.
Leaked audio recordings released by The Hollywood Reporter capture an expletive-laden conversation in which a mediator working with DelVecchio said of Serfaty: “Wow, is this going to get nasty for this girl?”
Serfaty did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Washington Post, including text messages, emails and messages sent to her Instagram account.
Serfaty publicly denied pregnancy rumors earlier this month, telling Page Six on October 13: “Not pregnant. Definitely not with Leo.”
DelVecchio said that while awaiting the results of the paternity test, he and Serfaty, along with her ex-husband Ididya Serfaty and their son Roman, flew to his home in Milan, where they took two more tests.
A few weeks later, in September, DelVecchio said he called Serfaty to convey the results.
“I’ll tell you what’s going to happen — I’m going to Rome on Tuesday. I’m going to do a back-up test to make sure you’re not lying to me,” Serfaty said, according to a recording of the call seen by The Washington Post.
The recorded conversation also recorded Serfaty claiming the man was willing to offer him $5 million to have a child, but she said she had no intention of accepting the offer.
“I’m going to abort it, but I’m going to get tested anyway,” Serfaty said, the recording shows. “I don’t want to have kids with this guy. I don’t care about money.”
The status of Jessica Serfaty’s reported pregnancy is currently unknown.
DelVecchio, who has denied orchestrating a smear campaign, identified Serfati as the one who publicly attacked him because she was upset about the reported paternity test results.
Roman Serfaty, 18, told The Washington Post that his mother was upset by the outcome of the report because “from what I understand, she wanted it to be Leo’s.”
“The moment she found out it wasn’t me, she went back to the newspaper again and again,” DelVecchio said. “I never did any campaign against her. All she did was to do some advertising, let’s call it that. She made false accusations and damaged my reputation and betrayed me from every possible angle.”
DelVecchio said the accusations damaged his reputation and complicated business transactions involving Essilor Luxottica and Delfin, an investment company owned by his family.
He said he hoped the paternity test results would help clear his name, but he declined to elaborate on which business deals were affected.
In addition, according to Reuters, the Del Vecchio family is involved in a fierce battle for control of Delfin. It is reported that Czech billionaire Michal Strnad made a 30 billion euro acquisition offer for Delfin.
Del Vecchio is one of eight heirs to the huge fortune left by his father, who founded eyewear giant Luxottica in the 1960s. Its successor, EssilorLuxottica, owns brands such as Ray-Ban, Oakley and Persol.
The ugly spat is the latest chapter in a feud between DelVecchio and Serfaty, whose relationship has been the subject of celebrity gossip for years. The two got engaged in 2023 and celebrated their romance by attending the Met Gala and other glitzy events.
But the couple fell out in 2024 after Serfaty accused Delvecchio of abusing her on a yacht near Saint-Tropez. Serfaty said DelVecchio hit her in the head, and Roman Serfaty, who was at the scene, said his mother broke a vodka bottle on DelVecchio’s head.
Serfaty quickly retracted the accusation, but later told The Times she did so because of DelVecchio’s alleged defamation.
Meanwhile, Jessica Serfaty — the ex-girlfriend of actor Ed Westwick, influencer Logan Paul and One Direction singer Niall Horan — faces new legal woes.
A previously unreported court filing accuses her of injecting what witnesses believed was ketamine into her then-17-year-old son Roman at a party in Los Angeles on her birthday in April. The documents also say that months later, she struck him in the back, leaving bruises.
According to the documents, Jessica Serfaty gave Roman and two of his friends a small baggie containing what they thought was ketamine after they asked her for drugs. The documents include photos of the bag, but the substance has not been independently confirmed as ketamine.
“She gave him drugs on his birthday,” Ididia Serfaty, a Los Angeles biotech entrepreneur, told The Washington Post. “That was, I hate to say it, shameful.”
The accusations emerged in documents Ididia Serfaty filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in October, including a statement signed by Roman. The documents allege that Jessica violated an existing restraining order protecting Ididiya and Roman from the alleged abuse.
“You went back for about three to five minutes and you came back with a small baggie of what we believe was ketamine,” Roman told his mother, according to a transcript of the call in the file.
The documents also indicate that Roman reported the incident to the Los Angeles Police Department in October. The status or existence of a police investigation was not immediately known.
Jessica Serfaty denied giving drugs to her son, according to the transcript.
“The only time I heard my son ask for drugs was once, he said it was for a friend, but I never gave him anything,” she said.
Jessica Serfaty is also accused of punching Roman on the back in August, leaving a “huge red handprint welt.” Ididiya Serfaty said the incident occurred at DelVecchio’s home in Milan while everyone was awaiting the results of a paternity test.
In text messages included in the documents, Jessica Serfaty appeared to admit to slapping her son, claiming he acted threateningly toward her.
“This boy bowed to me like he was going to hit me, he deserves a slap!!! A pregnant woman!!”
DelVecchio, who owns a Milan nightclub, made shocking comments about his sex life during a podcast interview in October.
“I can say that I’ve probably had sex with over 2,000 women, and I won over 90 percent of them singing ‘Hero,'” he said, apparently referring to the 2001 hit song by pop star Enrique Iglesias.