In 2016, Patricia published a memoir, In the Name of Gucci,[3] in which she revealed that she did not learn that her father had another family and wife until she was ten years old.
[3] Her elder half-brother Paolo Gucci broke away from the family firm and tried to set up a rival company.
[4] In Aldo's last years, he was involved in a tax scandal and his sons, together with his nephew Maurizio, squeezed control of Gucci away from him.
[2] Gucci was married to Joseph Ruffalo, a music executive who worked with Prince and Earth, Wind & Fire.
[1][7] In 2020, Patricia Gucci was named in a lawsuit brought forward by her daughter Alexandra for the childhood abuse by her stepfather.