Slavica Ecclestone
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Slavica Ecclestone (born Slavica Radić, 1958, in Gorani, Konjic District, Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a former Croatian model and is the wife of Formula 1 racing CEO Bernie Ecclestone.
Ecclestone worked as an international fashion model, modelling for a number of leading clients, including designer Armani. While working on a Formula One promotional event in 1984, she met Bernie Ecclestone (although she did not realise who he was, and gave him a fake phone number). Bernie pursued Slavica doggedly, undaunted by the 28 year age difference between the two, by the language barrier (she spoke , Croatian and Italian, he only spoke English), and by the difference in their heights (at 6 feet 2 inches, 1.88m, Slavica was nearly a foot taller than her suitor).
The couple have two daughters, Tamara Ecclestone (born 1986) and Petra (born 1990). Both speak Croatian fluently.
A complex system of companies places much of the Ecclestone's wealth in Slavica's name, with much of his Formula 1 related property owned by a Jersey based holding company (named SLEC, for SLavica ECclestone), of which Slavica (and not Bernie) is the major stockholder. Slavica Ecclestone also owns her own promotion company.
