Dementia is very difficult to deal with. It can be extremely challenging to watch someone you love lose their cognitive abilities as the disease ravages their mind. However, one 79-year-old Porshe executive was not willing to stand by his wife for many years when she began developing dementia. Wolfgang Porsche had struggled to endure a mediocre life with his 74-year-old wife Claudia because her behavior began changing two years ago when she started developing dementia in her senior years.
Now, it has been revealed that the automobile tycoon has filed for divorce from his wife and moved in with a much younger woman. He is now playing house with a 59-year-old former model named Gabriele Prinzessin zu Leiningen, who has been his friend for going on twenty-five years. Porsche has since moved in with Gabriele, who is twenty years his junior and now his girlfriend.
Gabriele told the Austrian media that she and the Porsche executive decided to move in together because they wanted to avoid spending time apart. It did not seem to bother either of them that Porsche was abandoning his wife in her years of need as she struggled to deal with the symptoms and behavioral changes associated with dementia.
Currently, it is not clear whether Porsche and Gabriele have moved into Porsche’s property in Zell am See, Austria, or Gabriele’s luxurious villa in Munich, Germany. Either way, the pair are both independently wealthy and powerful and are bound to enjoy their time together.
Porsche filed for divorce from Claudia, his wife of sixteen years, because she was suffering from an illness like dementia. Sources close to the couple told Bild that Porsche found it “impossible” to live with Claudia now that her health is deteriorating. The dementia has altered her personality.
Meanwhile, Claudia has four caretakers looking after her. She is a beloved grandmother. The four caretakers have watched after her all day and all night ever since she began suffering from the dementia-like illness two years ago. For months, she has not been able to move, and her mental abilities have gone through a rapid decline in that timeframe as well.
Porsche’s family assets are estimated to be worth about twenty billion euros. His new girlfriend, Gabriele, who is also known as Inaara Aga Khan, was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in April 1963. In 1991, Gabriela married Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen, who is allegedly the heir of the defunct House of Romanov in Russia, which was the subject of a series in recent years. She later married Karim Aga Khan IV, 86, who is the 49th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis and is considered to be a direct descendent of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed.
Gabriele and Porsche have been friends for many years now, and it seems that they are now taking their relationship to the next level. It is unclear what will happen with Claudia, whose condition has deteriorated in recent months. It is also unclear whether Porsche’s divorce from Claudia will be granted due to her dementia-like illness.