Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel were one of the most vibrant couples of the ’90s and 2000s. They met in 1996 on a film set and married in 1999. Their family fell apart in 2013, marking Monica’s second divorce.
Not long before meeting Vincent, she had separated from her first husband, fashion photographer Claudio Carlos Basso. The details of their initial meeting are unclear, but it likely happened during a shoot, as Monica was actively building her modeling career in the late ’80s. They married in 1990—Monica was 26 and Basso was 31. The wedding ceremony was quite modest, with only close friends in attendance. Interestingly, the bride wore a non-traditional outfit: a dark cloak with a beige hood.
Basso became passionate about photography as a teenager and, at 21, became an independent photographer. He worked in Milan and London before moving to New York in 1989 at the invitation of the Eileen Ford agency. During that time, Monica was also collaborating with American agencies and beginning her acting career, trying to break into Hollywood.
Monica and Claudio’s marriage lasted four years, and they did not have any children together. According to available information, Basso never remarried, while Monica had plenty of admirers. After her divorce from Vincent Cassel, she dated artist Nicolas Lefebvre, who is 18 years her junior, and is currently in a romance with director Tim Burton.
