Giada De Laurentiis
De Laurentiis in 2013, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Giada Pamela De Benedetti
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Date of Birth: 22 August, 1970
Ethnicity: Italian [including Sicilian], as well as one eighth English
Giada De Laurentiis is an Italian-born American chef, writer, and television personality. She has hosted the show Giada at Home since 2008.
She was born in Rome, Italy, and later moved to California, U.S. Giada is the daughter of Veronica De Laurentiis, an author and actress, and Alexander “Alex” De Benedetti, an actor and producer. Her father, who has roots in Turin, has English citizenship as well. The surname De Benedetti may have a Sephardi Jewish origin.
Giada has a daughter with her former husband, fashion designer Todd Thompson.
Giada’s maternal grandfather was film producer Dino De Laurentiis (born Agostino De Laurentiis, the son of Rosario Pasquale Marco Aurelio De Laurentiis and Giuseppa Luisa Anastasia “Giuseppina” Salvatore). Dino was born in Torre Annunziata, Naples, Campania, Italy. He was the brother of producer Luigi De Laurentiis. Rosario was the son of Luigi De Laurentiis and Celestina De Laurentiis, and was born in Torella dei Lombardi, Province of Avellino, Campania. Luigi and Celestina were born with the same surname. Giada’s great-grandmother Giuseppina was the daughter of Agostino Salvatore and Raffaella Mondella/Montella.
Giada’s maternal grandmother was actress Silvana Mangano (the daughter of Amadeo Mangano and Ivy Webb). Silvana was born in Rome, to a Sicilian father from Petralia Soprana, province of Palermo, and an English mother from Croydon.
Giada is a first cousin, once removed, of Aurelio De Laurentiis, who is also a prominent film producer.
Sources: Genealogy of Giada De Laurentiis (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Information about Giada’s father – http://ricerca.repubblica.it
Obituary of Giada’s maternal grandfather, Dino De Laurentiis – http://www.nytimes.com
Obituary of Giada’s maternal grandmother, Silvana Mangano – http://www.nytimes.com
http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/01/21/ex-genero-di-de-laurentiis-arrestato-per.html
Her father, Alexander De Benedetti (born c. 1945), is described as holding English citizenship too and having a sister who lived in Turin. Industrialist Carlo De Benedetti, whose father was a Sephardi Jew who converted to Catholicism, is also from Turin. So I think that a producer with that surname could have Jewish roots.
She mentions her father-in-law being Jewish…
https://mobile.twitter.com/GDeLaurentiis/status/60843689592885248?p=v
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Debenedetti
@follers
However Giada’s parents married in a Catholic church, Basilica di San Sebastiano in Rome, on 14th Feb 1970.
Her dad likely converted, or did not practised Judaism.
A person from Turin with a surname like De Benedetti in such environment is 99% Jewish.
She should be listed as Sicilian
Doesn’t look Italian at all.
I instantly knew she was italian before I clicked.
Then I guess you have no idea about what Italians look like.
Dino De Laurentiis’s name was actually Agostino De Laurentiis. He was born to Rosario Pasquale Aurelio De Laurentiis and Giuseppina Salvatore (the daughter of Raffaella Mondella)
damn those boobies are just spilling out that dress