Julio Ledesma (born 1961) is a Filipino politician, businessman, and celebrity associate of Negros Occidental. He is well recognized after dating as the husband of Assunta De Rossi (Italian born Filipino actress).

He appeared in many famous popular movies like Hubog, Beauty in a Bottle, Jologs, Pinay Pie, Crazy Beautiful You, The Super Parental Guardians, Impostor, Be Careful With My Heart etc.

In fact, the actress also won the Metro Manila Film Festival award in the Best Actress category for her performance in the Hubog project.

The couple gained immense popularity in their country after Assunta De Rossi gave birth to their first child named Fiore on October 23, 2020. They started out as assets but now ended up in a very strong relationship.

Jules and Assunta first met during the Advertising Congress held in Cebu in 2001. Later, he saw her at the GMA studio while filming for the Bubble Gang show. In fact, they hooked up in San Francisco, where they went for professional reasons.

Early life

Assunta De Rossi’s husband, whose full birth name is Julio Carlos Ledesma IV, was born in 1961 in the Philippines. Therefore, the current age of him is 59 years old, as of 2020.

All the details about his mom, dad, siblings and other relatives have yet to be released on the internet. I will update my readers very soon on Dreshare.com. The only thing I know about her parents is that her mother was 17 years old when she married her father, who was 33 years old.

But he comes from a very rich background where his ancestors own sugar industries and even have vast hectares of land.

Professional life

The famous partner worked as a congressman in Negros Occidental. He served in this position for many years. Ledesma IV even owns several businesses with his relatives in this particular area.

According to Inquirer reports, Jules Ledesma’s net worth was announced to be P1,004,951,837.92 as of 2016. It made him the second richest person after Manny Pacquiao (former manager of Sarangani).

Later in 2018, the “attycortes” website revealed that Jules’s wealth is around P220 million. In the years that followed, he too became a billionaire.

In fact, Ledesma donated almost P2 billion to various charities and stated that money is not everything.

Married life, children and spouse

The wedding photo of Jules Ledesma and Assunta De Rossi

According to the source, Jules Ledesma married his wife in 2002 in a lavish ceremony. At that time, Assunta De Rossi was only 19 years old, and Jules was 41 years old. The age difference also generated heat on the Internet.

Their wedding ceremony took place in the presence of their close friends and family at Forbes Park, Makati, Philippines.

Furthermore, sources claim that her marriage to the congressman resulted in the downfall of her career for the next decade. On October 23, 2020, the lovely couple blessed a baby girl after trying to conceive for almost twenty years.

Her sister-in-law “Alessandra De Rossi”, who is also a popular actress, was the first person to post about this good news. She posted the photo of Assunta crying while holding her daughter.

The businessman already has two children named “Cristina Carlos” and “Julio Carlos V” from his former partner “María Victoria Tsung Pek”. They got married in 1991.

Unfortunately, she died in 2000 due to cancer. Maria found out about her illness on December 25, 1998 in Taipei.

Some lesser known facts about Jules Ledesma

• Alessandra made a very emotional publication where she recounted the struggle of her older sister and her brother-in-law.
• Her family also prayed for Assunta’s pregnancy.
• Her sister-in-law refers to little Fiore as a miracle child.
• Jules and her partner first announced their pregnancy to their followers in May 2020.
• The actress revealed to her fans that she went to the doctor’s clinic on March 5, 2020, after missing her period.
• At the time, she was about five weeks pregnant.
• Assunta De Rossi also told her followers that she suffered from both myoma and endometriosis and that getting pregnant naturally with this condition was extremely difficult.
• Therefore, the couple also called their baby a miracle child.
• There were rumors in the early 2000s that Jules Ledesma is gay and many people used to laugh at him because of his sexuality.
• However, getting married to one of the beautiful Filipina actresses shut down all the rumors.
• Jules’s mother-in-law, Nenita and Alessandra, were against his and Assunta’s couple, since she is 22 years younger than him.
• In 2013, Ledesma and Assunta donated almost 60% of their money to the day laborers and other employees of their sugar mill.
• Jules is a short person standing only 5 feet 2 inches (158 cm), while his partner is 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
• He and the actress call each other “sugar.”
• Her ex-spouse’s treatment took place in 1999 and she recovered in April or May. But again in September 1999, she began to suffer severe pain.
• After his death, the businessman went into depression because seeing his partner die little by little every day was very tormenting.
• It was a love match and the former couple met in April 1990 through a mutual friend and got engaged in December.
• The show’s theme song “Chances Are” is her favorite song of all time. She used to listen to this particular song for almost two years while she was in mourning.
• During an interview, he told his audience that he is a romantic person and even writes poetry.
• He always writes poetry every time he falls in love.