Exclusive | Ray-Ban heir recounts wild pregnancy mystery with ex Jessica Serfaty: Im pregnant It can be you or him
Soap opera star Jessica Serfaty told her billionaire ex-fiancé Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio that she was pregnant over the summer — but wasn’t sure whether he or another man was the father, the Italian-born Ray-Ban heir claims.Del Vecchio, 31, said in an interview with The Post that in August he was lounging on his yacht moored off the Mediterranean island of Sardinia when Serfaty called him from Los Angeles with the urgent news.The call kicked off a scramble in which Del Vecchio — whose fortune has been estimated at more than $5 billion — said he chartered private jets to fly Serfaty and a team of doctors to Sardinia for a series of paternity tests, including one aboard his yacht, that ultimately indicated he wasn’t the father.Despite no longer being a couple, Del Vecchio said he and Serfaty slept together in early July in Monaco while staying at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo.Immediately afterward, Serfaty — who appeared on “America’s Next Top Model” and starred as lawyer Sloan Petersen in “Days of Our Lives” — flew to Rome, where she slept with another man: a mogul in the liquor business, according to Del Vecchio.A recording of a phone call between Del Vecchio and Serfaty reviewed by The Post also captures her acknowledging the encounter.“I had sex with Jessica on the fourth or the fifth of July.Then she flew to Rome apparently seeing this guy,” Del Vecchio told The Post.
“Then after a month, she was like, ‘I’m pregnant — It can be you or him.'”The claims come as Del Vecchio faces allegations that he hired a reputation-management operative to wage a vicious smear campaign against his former fiancée, including by spreading claims online that she was a prostitute — accusations detailed in recent investigations by The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times.Leaked audio recordings published by The Hollywood Reporter captured a profanity-laced exchange in which a fixer working with Del Vecchio said of Serfaty: “wow is i...