This Gucci Family Tree details the Gucci family. Guccio Gucci, an Italian businessman, founded the Gucci empire in Florence, Tuscany, in 1921. Guccio married Aida Calvelli in 1901, and the couple had six children: five sons (one of whom died at the age of nine in 1913) and a daughter. The company was left to his five sons after his death on January 2, 1953. Grimalda, his daughter, was left without a role. Ugo, Guccio's eldest son, was born in 1899 from his mother Aida's previous relationship. He married Delia Vezzosi, born in 1897, and they had three children. Ugo held a significant position.