Lorenzo Borghese Biography (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Lorenzo Borghese (born June 9, 1973), commonly known as Prince Lorenzo Borghese, is a member of a Italian noble family, a cosmetics entrepreneur, and stars on the 9th season of ABC"s The Bachelor American television show.
Biography
Borghese was born in Milan into the noble Borghese Family, the son of Francesco Marco Luigi Costanzo Borghese (born 1938), and his American wife, Amanda Leigh. His mother's stepfather was Douglas Leigh, the sign and lighting designer. Lorenzo Borghese's paternal grandmother was Marcella Borghese, who founded the Borghese cosmestics line in 1958; it was a subsidiary of Revlon.
He lived in Rome and outside Paris. When he was five years old he moved to New Canaan, Connecticut but was raised for most of his life in the township of Millburn, New Jersey in the Short Hills section of Millburn Township. As of 1982, he has resided in Leesburg, Georgia, but has also lived in North Carolina and South Carolina. He has lived in Manhattan since 1997.
Borghese attended Millburn High School in New Jersey and the Pomfret School in Connecticut. He graduated from Rollins College in Florida in 1995. It was there that he was initiated into the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He later received his MBA from Fordham University in New York.
He is a managing partner with his father in GT Partners. He is founder and president of Royal Treatment Pet Spa and executive vice president of Multimedia Exposures, Inc., an advertising agency for cosmetic products.
Lorenzo Borghese was the 9th bachelor on ABC"s The Bachelor. Borghese was supposed to choose a potential wife from a total of 25 American women, but later in the first show two Italian women were brought in. The set for this season included the Villa Borghese and other famous sites in and around Rome, Italy.