In stark contrast to their usual practice of selecting their male characters from the ranks of hunky working stiffs, ABC's reality show The Bachelor ran in an honest to gosh 34-year-old Italian prince, Lorenzo Borghese on its 9th season.
Young Borghese was the real goods, and surely the female contestants on the show must have considered him to be Lorenzo the Magnificent. He is dark and handsome and is descended from one of Italy's most noble families--one that was instrumental in building St. Peter's in Rome. Among his ancestors are a pope and an especially influential cardinal. More recently, one of his grandmothers founded a successful line of cosmetics in the 1950s.
Lorenzo was born in Milan but moved to America when he was a small boy. Now living in New York City, he holds an MBA and owns the pet spa company he founded, and also works with his father in the human cosmetics business.
By now he has made the usual round of talk shows, but his brush with celebrity came in 2006 by way of The Bachelor.
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