The 79-year-old Porsche billionaire is filing for divorce from his 74-year-old wife ‘due to severe dementia that has kept her home’ – he has reportedly become ‘close’ to the 59-year-old ex-model who previously was married to Romanov Prince and the Aga Khan
- Porsche billionaire is said to have filed for divorce from his wife at the age of 79
- Wolfgang is grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the company in 1931
Porsche CEO Wolfgang Porsche will divorce his 16-year-old partner, who is known to suffer from a dementia-like illness.
Sources close to the couple said Porsche, 79, is struggling living with his wife, 74, as her behavior has changed since the diagnosis.
Claudia, who has been suffering from the disease for two years, has four carers who look after her 24 hours a day.
She has reportedly been unable to move independently for months and her mental awareness has experienced a rapid decline.
Wolfgang and Claudia have been together since 2007 and got married in 2019. The fortune of the Porsche family is estimated at 20 billion euros.
Wolfgang Porsche holds the hand of his wife Claudia Hübner, on his left his longtime girlfriend Gabriele Prinzessin zu Leiningen. They are all pictured together in Munich, Germany, February 2018
Wolfgang Porsche is pictured with his 25-year-old girlfriend Gabriela Prinzessin zu Leiningen. They are pictured in the Käfer-Schänke restaurant in Munich last October
Media in Germany are reporting that Wolfgang has become closer to his 25-year-old girlfriend, 59-year-old Princess Gabriela zu Leiningen, in recent months.
Gabriela – also known as Inaara Aga Khan – was born in April 1963 in Frankfurt am Main.
Like Porsche’s wife Claudia, she studied law in Munich and Cologne.
She married Prince Karl-Emich zu Leiningen in 1991, but the couple divorced in 1998.
Later that same year she married Swiss Karim Aga Khan IV, 86, the 49th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis, believed to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed.
The couple divorced in 2014.
Since 1999, Gabriela has been involved in a number of development projects in the third world, promoting self-reliance and offering help in the event of natural disasters.
She has been actively involved in the fight against AIDS since 2004 and supports the German AIDS Foundation.
Claudia Hübner and Wolfgang Porsche attend the premiere of ‘La Clemenzia di Tito’ during the 2017 Salzburg Festival in Salzburg, Austria
Princess Gabriele zu Leiningen attends the 7th GRK Golf Charity Masters Leipzig Gala at The Westin Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, August 23, 2014
Wolfgang Heinz Porsche is a German-Austrian shareholder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Porsche AG.
Born in Stuttgart, he is the youngest son of the former designer and CEO of Porsche AG Ferdinand “Ferry” Porsche and Dorothea Reitz.
His grandfather was Ferdinand Porsche, the Austrian-Bohemian founder of Porsche AG.
His eldest brother is Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, who designed the first Porsche 911.
He has four children, two of them with the director and screenwriter Susanne Bresser, to whom he was married from 1988 to 2008.
Porsche lives in Zell am See, Austria.