He is inheritor to a rich Italian smallgoods dynasty in Australia, but little else is thought about Paul-Charles ‘PC’ Valmorbida, the artwork entrepreneur linked to Hollywood’s elite.
Earlier than he was a flashy New York artwork supplier photographed alongside worldwide glitterati, Valmorbida was a Melbourne schoolboy and a 3rd technology scion of a household with a $500million fortune.
The Valmorbida household dynasty arose within the Fifties importing Italian staples to Australia; Lavazza espresso, La Gina canned tomatoes and Sirena Tuna.
PC, his sister Nikki and brother Andy have been all educated at Wesley Faculty, a co-educational faculty on St Kilda Street within the interior Melbourne suburb of Prahran.
Informal lunch outing: Mary-Kate Olsen joined the Australian artwork supplier for a chew to eat at a hotspot known as Sant Ambroeus Madison close to Central Park
The Australian hunk has been romantically inked to rock royalty Theodora Richards
The siblings grew up on prestigious Hopetoun Street that straddles Toorak and Malvern; an unique boulevard that hosts lots of the metropolis’s best properties.
The household’s custom-built mansion boasted six bedrooms, a number of formal and casual residing areas throughout its three ranges in addition to a pool, media room, gymnasium and cellar.
Following their dad and mom’ cut up, the youngsters adopted their mum Maria to the USA, the place she was to be re-married to Australian-born personal fairness investor Phil Cohen, whose EZCorp owns a 3rd of Money Converters.
First making an attempt his hand at images earlier than changing into a gallerist on the age of 24, PC launched Prism, a ten,000-square-foot artwork gallery that performed host to many pop-up exhibits that attracted as many celebrities as they did artwork patrons.
Regardless of their wealth, and a penchant for the finer issues in life, most members of the family from the tight-knit Valmorbida household have stored a low profile.
The household, are a daily on the BRW Wealthy Record, has an unlimited community of companies in meals importation, retail and trend and an in depth portfolio in industrial and residential actual property.
Valmorbida grew up in one in every of Melbourne’s most unique put up codes earlier than transferring to the US
PC Valmorbida in mattress with mannequin sisters Cara and Poppy Delevigne
Purple Sizzling Chilli Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis and PC Valmorbida at PRISM gallery
Brothers PC (pictured left) and Andy Valmorbida took the artwork world by storm within the mid 2000s
Final week, the now 37-year-old PC was photographed with actress-turned-designer Mary-Kate Olsen in New York Metropolis, with their friendship having spanned greater than a decade.
The weekday outing comes two years after Mary-Kate finalized her divorce from ex-husband, Olivier Sarkozy.
In 2011, Olsen and her twin Ashley attended the Valmorbida brothers artist exhibition at PC’s then owned PRISM gallery.
The Melbourne-raised artwork impresario is not any stranger to movie star circles having been romantically linked to Theodora Richards – the daughter of rock and roll legend Keith Richards and mannequin Patti Hansen – with the pair attending Melbourne Spring Racing carnival collectively in 2008.
He is been photographed alongside Purple Sizzling Chilli Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, Paris and Nikki Hilton and counts mannequin sisters Popppy and Cara Delevigne as shut pals.
Whereas PC hardly ever makes headlines, older brother Andy shocked the artwork world in 2021, the place he was accused of frauds involving multimillion-dollar artworks by Francis Bacon and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
He reached a confidential settlement with hedge fund supervisor Christian Hore, who had earlier sued him within the Royal Court docket of Jersey within the Channel Islands.
Andy customary a profession as a multimillion-dollar artwork dealer throwing grand pop-up exhibitions that toured by way of New York, London and Moscow.
In 2014 he married socialite Zara Simon, daughter of Peter Simon, the retail tycoon behind British trend empire Monsoon.
The New York Occasions in 2012 described him a “younger pop-up exhibitionist and cocky Australian-born artwork entrepreneur”. The New York Submit’s take was ‘Australian playboy’.
