Bernie Ecclestone is the former head of Formula One, and he made it into the cash cow it is today. He’s 89 years old and he still goes to the Grand Prix and he is still involved in some way in Formula One. He’s also on his third wife, which actually isn’t too bad? By the age of 89, you might expect him to have already run through six or seven wives. He had one daughter with his first wife (the daughter, Deborah, is now 65 years old) and two daughters with his second wife (Tamara, 35, and Petra, 31). His third wife is Fabiana Flosi and she’s 44 years old. They’re expecting their first child together. Whoa.
Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is set to become a father for the fourth time at the age of 89 with his wife Fabiana Flosi. The billionaire businessman, who is currently at his farm near Sao Paul, Brazil amid the coronavirus crisis, is said to be gearing up to welcome his first son in July. Mr Ecclestone, a grandfather-of-five, confirmed he and his 44-year-old wife are expecting a child to Swiss newspaper Blick today.
The new addition, who will be born not long before Mr Ecclestone’s 90th birthday in October, will be his fourth child. He also has three daughters. His eldest, Deborah, 65, was born to his first wife Ivy Bamford before he welcomed socialites Tamara, 35, and Petra, 31, with his second wife Slavica Radic.
‘Yes, it is due in the summer,’ Mr Ecclestone told Blick. ‘Hopefully he’ll learn to play backgammon soon!’
The former Formula 1 boss married Brazilian marketing director Ms Flosi in 2012 – three years after he divorced Croatian model Ms Radic. The expectant parents met through the World Motor Sport Council, where she regularly attended meetings.
I mean… it feels a little Rupert Murdoch-ish especially when Murdoch married Wendy Deng and welcomed two daughters with her. Except… Rupert Murdoch and Bernie Eccelstone are the same age now! They’re both 89. Rupert’s girls (Chloe and Grace) are 15 and 17. Basically, Rupert stopped fathering children in his mid-70s. Eccelstone is different, I guess. I understand it slightly from Fabiana’s perspective – this was (possibly) her last chance at having a biological kid, given her age, and maybe she just genuinely wanted to be a mom. And after 89 years, he’s getting a son? Lord have mercy on all these people.
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I own an apology to Mick Jagger I suppose.
A 65 year age difference between your first and last child is…wow.
He’s old enough to be this kid’s great-grandfather.
Let’s not forget the much greater risks of birth defects or other developmental challenges for older FATHERS.
Sorry.. having a kid at 89?? He’ll be luck if he makes it near this kid’s 6th birthday. Selfish, selfish, selfish.
sorry, this is gross. that kid is not going to be able to do anything with his dad and probably by the time he’s old enough to form lasting memories, his dad won’t be alive anymore.
if it was important to her to have biological babies and not miss out, maybe she shouldn’t have married someone who is 45 years older than her. his first daughter is old enough to be his new kid’s grandmother!
I know this is super judgy, but this just seems so selfish and inconsiderate to the new kids.
She is at the age she still can remarry by the time he is gone and the kid may not yet be out of diappers so, she will have financial stability and has a chance of raising this child in some sort of family. Jaded and gross and gold digging gold but to each their own I guess?
Dad will be gone before the child is old enough to be embarrassed at having a geriatric parent. He’ll be fine.
I do get people are shocked but this is so common nowadays………..a lot of wealthy men with wives younger than their first kids. Biology isn’t fair to women otherwise we would have seen the same thing as well
Bernie will just be a 90 year old with a baby……….it is funny if you think about it. That kid will be fine and well taken care of
Huh. He’ll have kids in three different generations. Guess he wanted a hat trick. Congrats to her I guess, imagine she knows she will probably end up a single parent at some point.
Gross.
i always like Bernie for some reason I cannot explain.
The child will be fine as there is plenty of money to take care of the child when Pappa Bernie passes. I wish Bernie and his wife all the best.
This is not a good response. So as long as there is money it’s ok for a child to not have their parent around because he was old enough to be his/her great grandparent…No. This is extremely irresponsible.
I don’t know…as long as there are other parental figures around to step up, I don’t think children in these circumstances are necessarily disadvantaged.
Of course, there will always be a sense of loss because the father is not in their lives, but there are many children with living fathers who never see them, and they seem to grow up to be wonderful people. Everything is a roll of the dice anyway.
@Summer………how is this irresponsible? that kid is going more than fine. Certainly much better set up for life than a kid born to a much younger parent who cannot feed him or her.
So @BayTampaBay is right imo. He/she will be more than fine actually; yeah he won’t get to see his dad much but that’s just a fact life. some young parents die because of disease, accidents and their kids are fine
He does realize there’s a good chance he won’t live to see the child’s first birthday or even their birth, right?
Then again, I’m sure his ego is so big there’s no room for such thoughts to enter his brain.
So this poor child will grow up not knowing its father? I know that happens every days for all sorts of reasons but doing this on purpose is cruel.
OK, at least something different. I thought this would be another news about a famous elderly person passing away due to Covid. Thank God. I guess Congrats.
Jesus Christ.
BAh!!!! This was my thought too Mabs. My thought too.
There is soooooooo much I could say about this and an itching to say but in the times we are living in I will stick to wishing them both well, I hope she has a happy and healthy pregnancy and baby. A baby is always a blessing, so good luck to this two crazy kids.
Thanks for the sane comment. A baby is always a gift from life. May the child be happy and healthy…
“A baby is always a blessing” God I wish more people thought that way.
Super gross. First, the child will grow up an orphan. Second, at his age, the odds that his child will be afflicted with a variety of defects/illnesses due to the mutations of sperm of old men are much higher.
My mind has been blown thiking about the abnormalities in that 90 year old junk. Get a sperm donor. I would rather take my chances on the open junk market with young prime stuff.
Men of that age should not be procreating because it’s not fair emotionally or health wise to the child. I was just reading the other day about how autism is linked to the age of the parents, esp the father, the older the parents the bigger likelihood of it occurring. Mother is 44 and dad is 89, those aren’t the average ages of expectant parents.
So men can have kids until they’re in the grave but I have 4….errr 3ish years left to do the same. Got it. Makes total sense.
I wonder if they both thought there was no chance of pregnancy because of his age and since it has been a while since he fathered a kid? I wouldn’t have used protection either thinking we were out of the woods for that.
Yikes, lmao. I support age-gap relationships, but I think there comes a point where they don’t work on one end of the spectrum, just as much as on the other. I just hope the kid is happy, healthy, and surrounded by a lot of love. 🙂
This is disgusting. I know that child will be born into a ridiculous amount of privilege, but it will be no cakewalk for that kid. I’m a child of a 38-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man (back in the way back times of the early 1980s) I was teased mercilessly by kids when they found out my dad was the same age as their grandparents. It took me long time to deal that and I have a weird relationship with my siblings that all had completely different relationships with my parents than I did due to all the extra time I got to spend with our dad.
It might be the quarantine, but I’m almost irrationally angry about this. I’m going to go take a walk in my apartment complex to hopefully cool down. F*ing so gross and awful for the child.
When you first child is old enough to be your last child’s GRANDMOTHER, you’ve done something wrong.
I mean I suppose it could have happened naturally, without any interventions but at 44 I wonder.
If they had fertility treatments I wonder about the ethics of it, strictly due to his age. All the money buys the doctors compliance I guess.
Is this a child to remember him by? Her last chance to have a biological child? A way for her to be sure when the fight over the will happens she’s positioned well?
All of the above. Practically speaking, hard for his other kids to cut out wife No. 3 if she’s positioned with a child. (Not saying she doesn’t also want to be a mom, loves him, etc. More than one thing can be true.) And, yes, there’s only a very slim chance this pregnancy didn’t require some level of medical intervention. Men’s fertility doesn’t drop off a cliff like women’s, but it does decline with age. The statistical chances of an 89-year-old naturally getting a 44-year-old woman pregnant are…well, let’s just say “slim to none,” would be a generous medical assessment.
ADD the fact it’s a boy, after 3 girls… definitely medical intervention and gender selection. Reminds me of the Beckhams: 4 boys and then a girl. Doubt that was by chance either.
NOT judging, honest. Just say, it is likely.
The chances of that having happened naturally are very slim. Her eggs are bad at this point and his swimmer are terrible. Maybe he had some sperm frozen when he was younger. Or they harvested many eggs and fertilized them to get at least one healthy one.
I think it fine. Solo woman and men can adopt, or get surrogates to help with bringing a child into this world. She will obviously be a solo parent soon with finances to help. I wouldn’t call it selfish. It’s not like both parents are old af. That would be cruel.
That’s not the ideal tho. And where I live solo men and women can’t adpt and surrogacy is luckily illegal. It’s about the kids. What Bernie and his wife are doing is insanely selfish and straight up dumb.
I’d love to see them on playdates with families who have a kid the same age. What would the dad’s even talk about? 😂
I think the nannies will be the ones taking the kid to play dates — alongside the children of other very wealthy people who are there with their nannies. 😂