How much is Gianluca Vacchi worth?
| Net Worth: | $150 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Playboy |
| Date of Birth: | August 5, 1967 (age 55) |
| Country: | Italy |
| Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
About Gianluca Vacchi
Gianluca Vacchi is an Italian author, businessman, disc jockey, entrepreneur, financier, musician, and social media personality. Commonly refers to as “Granda Playboy” and “The Money King”, he is one of the richest and most famous Italians to gained worldwide recognition. He became famous in the 2010s when he created his accounts on the social media platforms Instagram and Twitter where he has more than 15 million followers.
Grandpa Playboy is famous for his dance videos and photos posted on his Instagram page. Gianluca was born on August 5, 1967, in Bologna, Italy. He’s the son of an Italian businessman that owned the IMA (Industry Machine Automatiche) company, the main business is related to design and manufacture automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, tobacco, tea and coffee.
There’s not much information about his family members or if he has any siblings. What is known about the Italian playboy is he is akin to royalty in his home country. And he likes to post skit-like videos on Instagram. Like him riding into a room on a Harley Davidson motorbike wearing a full suit and jumping off and staying on his feet, motorbike also kicked and upright, to surprise his audience.
In the late 1980s, he joined the Studiorum University of Bologna. A few years later, he earned a degree in business and economics, which contributed a lot to the prosperity and success of his business career. Gianluca spent the next twenty years working multiple jobs at the same time. Besides the family company, IMA, he also served as the director and financier of another company called FV (Finanziaria Vacchi). In the early years of the new millennium, he also began organizing tours and concerts around all cities in Italy. Later when he became a global entertainer, he started organizing events in the United States. In the past, he has suffered from major health issues and was diagnosed with streptococcus.
Gianluca worked 20 years for the family business but at 45 he realized that it wasn’t what was doing it for him anymore. He decided to make a change by retiring and setting his focus on “living the dream” full time. It’s the central theme of his book Enjoy. “This second life is the most beautiful thing a man can have. I have had two lives and it’s unbelievable to me.”
Vacchi has said. “When I was 45 I realized I had achieved what I wanted; let’s find other ways to spend my time.”
Owing to his lifestyle choices and use of social media. Vacchi is often compared to “The Instagram King” Dan Bilzerian being dubbed himself “Grandpa Playboy”.
“I am an entrepreneur, I am a DJ, the brand is going to come with me in the path of my life. It can mean anything. Time is the only thing that I care about. Financial gain is the last of the things. Money and profit is the result of things gone well.” Gianluca Vacchi
Apart from making a significant amount of money from his social media following, being a businessman that has directed important companies is the reason why Gianluca Vacchi is so wealthy. In 2012, at the age of 45, “The Coolest Man on Instagram” retired from his directing post of IMA. He then began working jobs that he has never tried before such as disc jockeying around Europe.
During the early years of the 2010s, he worked as a DJ in many countries such as Cyprus, Greece, France, and Spain, earning himself an additional income estimated at $350,000 per year.
In July 2013, Gianluca created his own channel on YouTube. On the video-sharing platform, he began uploading various videos. Besides vlogs, he uploaded many dancing and training videos. Despite failing to earn a lot of money from his channel, his account on YouTube contributed a lot to his success online. Immediately after he created his accounts on the social media platforms Instagram and Twitter, Vacchi became a social media phenomenon. As of now, his net worth is estimated to be $150 million and from all of his professions and roles and dividends, he earns an estimated $15 million annually. However it is from his company equity in IMA, that most of his net worth is attributed.
He’s been labeled everything from an “Italian stallion” and a “silver fox,” to simply “#goals.”
For the past two decades, he has been consistently acquiring and founded companies that brought him to earn an additional income. One of the first companies he acquired is the watch company in 2006, which was later sold to the prosperous organization Hirsch. Presently, he has his own designer brand for watches and sunglasses and runs the SEA (Societa Europea Autocaravan) organization.
What makes the Italian superstar so successful are not only his many business ventures and social media presence but his many other ventures.
After spending a lot of time designing and running his own blog, in mid-April 2016, he released his first book, the autobiography Enjoy. At the same time, he also became a musician that signed a multi-million dollar deal with the label Spinning Records. His first song is called “Viento” and was released in the summer of 2017. A few months later, in February 2018, he released his second hit “Trump-It”. The music videos of both music projects have more than 50 million views. Ever since, the Italian Playboy has collaborated with many best-selling Latin singers such as Becky G, Luis Fonsi, and Sebastian Yatra.
“Reaching your dreams is achievable; but it takes the courage to go after them and you have to not think it’s impossible,” he says. “Some people can’t reach them out of fear. It’s not because I have money that I am a DJ – I had the courage to try. Whenever I can have a new experience, I jump on it.”
Summing-Up
Gianluca Vacchi is an Italian playboy and entrepreneur that became a celebrity in the 2010s with his social media accounts. The multi-talented businessman and social media sensation has millions of followers and earned/inherited hundreds of millions of dollars, too. As of 2023, Gianluca Vacchi’s net worth is estimated to be at least $150 million dollars. Some estimates put his wealth as high as half a billion. Yet without access to more records or proof, we conservatively estimate his wealth is $150 million.
The majority of Vacchi’s wealth was inherited from his father. In the 60s, his father founded a mega-corporation called IMA. The company, which is currently worth an estimated $2 billion, is a conglomerate that provides processing and packaging of food, pharmaceuticals, vehicles and more.
