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Mazza in 2007, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Valeria Raquel Mazza Ferreira
Place of Birth: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Date of Birth: 17 February, 1972
Ethnicity: Argentinian [Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, possibly Arbëreshë and other]
Valeria Mazza is an Argentine model and businessperson.
She is the daughter of Monica Ferreira and Raúl Mariano Mazza Ceriani. Valeria is married to businessperson Alejandro Gravier, with whom she has four children. She speaks Italian and English.
Valeria’s patrilineal line can be traced back to her great-great-great-grandfather, José Mazza Oleares, who was born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
Valeria has remote Iberian ancestral lines who lived in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay, starting in the early 1600s.
Valeria’s paternal grandfather was Raúl Mazza Wolf (the son of Mariano Mazza Bacigalupo and Elisa/Elizabeth Wolf). Raúl was born in Argentina. Mariano was the son of Mariano Nicasio Mazza Gálvez, whose father was Italian, from Genoa; and of Claudelina Bacigalupo Freire, whose father was also Italian. The Gálvez line originats in Murcia, Spain, in mid 1700s. Valeria’s great-grandmother Elisa was German.
Valeria’s paternal grandmother was named Olga Ceriani.
The surname Ferreira is usually Portuguese or Spanish Galician.
Source: Genealogy of Valeria Mazza (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.genealogiafamiliar.net