Flora Pérez: Everything About Amancio Ortega’s Wife

Flora Pérez is the wife of Spanish billionaire businessman Amancio Ortega. Flora’s husband Amancio Ortega is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. He is one of the richest men in the world. He is the head of the Ortega family and the second wealthiest retailer in the world.

Flora Pérez: Bio Summary

How Old Is Amancio Ortega’s Wife, Flora Pérez?

Flora Perez Marcote was born on October 16, 1952. She will be 71 years old in 2023, on October 16. She was born in the province of La Coruña. Her parents’ names have not been disclosed. Her parents were descendants of farmers who emigrated to the city, searching for greener pastures, per a source. Flora holds Spanish nationality.

Flora Pérez has seven siblings. She lived in Arzúa and La Coruña during her early days. Her family reportedly left the area of ​​Arzúa, in the southeastern part of the province of A Coruña, known as the ‘land of cheese’. They settled in the working-class neighborhood of Los Castros, in the southeast of the city and where some unloading docks are located.

Flora Pérez schooled in La Coruna. Flora began to work in the textile industry. She worked in different companies of the Inditex group. She worked in one of the factories of the Inditex group in Sabón. She got promoted to manager of the brand’s store in Vigo. She has worked in the design, purchasing, sales, and pattern-making departments, throughout her professional career.

Flora Pérez took up positions of responsibility in the management of the Inditex group companies. She has taken on tasks-administrator since 1992 and since 2005 she has been part of the boards of directors of companies of the Inditex group, of investment companies such as Pontegadea, the Gartler company, and the Amancio Ortega Foundation.

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Flora Pérez has been working as a member of the board of trustees of the Amancio Ortega Foundation, a position she has held since 2003, and is the first vice president since 2005. She takes part in activities of the foundation, very involved in projects promoting health and the fight against cancer, as well as in educational activities.

In March 2021, Flora Pérez visited a public nursery school built by the Amancio Ortega Foundation in A Coruña in 2015. She has represented the foundation in acts of donations made to autonomous communities, for research and support teams for Spanish public health. In 2018, she bought new shares worth almost two million euros, expanding her portfolio to more than 15,000 titles with this new acquisition.

Flora Pérez is an Inditex partner, which she has been since 2002 when she received shares as a Zara worker in the commercial department because the company distributed 81,000 shares among its employees. However, Flora doesn’t like to be in the spotlight much. She prefers to go unnoticed despite being the wife of one of the richest men in the world.

Flora Is The Second Wife Of Amancio Ortega

Flora Pérez is the second woman businessman Amancio Ortega has walked down the aisle. He was previously married to Rosalía Mera Goyenechea (28 January 1944 – 15 August 2013), a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Inditex. Amancio married Rosalía in 1966. They had two children.

Their children are called Sandra Ortega Mera and Marcos Ortega Mera. Amancio and Rosalía’s marriage ended in 1986 before Rosalía died at age 69, in 2013, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Rosalía was known as the richest woman in Spain and the world’s richest self-made woman. Flora and Amancio gave birth to their daughter Marta Ortega Pérez (b. 1984) before getting married.

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It was after Marta was born that Amancio Ortega and his first wife Rosalía divorced. This means that Flora Pérez and Amancio were seeing each other while Amancio was still married to Rosalía. Flora and Amancio’s affair led to the breakdown of Amancio’s marriage to Rosalía. Flora and Amancio eventually got married in 2001. The couple have been married for more than two decades. Flora calls her husband Amancio ‘my love’.