Slavica Ecclestone (' RadiÃÂ; born 2 June 1958) is a Croatian former model and the ex-wife of former Formula 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone.
Ecclestone was born in Rijeka, Croatia, to an ethnically Serb where her parentsâÂÂJovan "Jovo" Radiàand Ljubica Maliàfrom Maglajani and RijeÃÂani, respectively, both villages within the Laktaà ¡i municipality, PR Bosnia and HerzegovinaâÂÂhad settled shortly before her birth in search of job opportunities. The family soon moved back to northern Bosnia to her father's native Maglajani where Ecclestone spent most of her childhood.
In her early career, Ecclestone worked as a fashion model, modelling for a number of clients, including the designer Armani. While working on a Formula One promotional event for Armani at the 1982 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, the twenty-four-year-old model met fifty-two-year-old Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone.
From her marriage, Ecclestone has two daughters, Tamara (born 1984) and Petra (born 1988).
In November 2008, Ecclestone filed for divorce after 23 years of marriage. The divorce was granted on 11 March 2009. She ranked 194 in The Sunday Times<nowiki/>' Rich List after she was awarded an estimated ã740 million from her divorce.
In December 2019, she put her Chelsea mansion up for sale for more than ã100 million after daughter Tamara's home in Kensington Palace Gardens was raided and jewels worth ã50 million were stolen.