To be rich is amazing, but to be rich with a boat is a whole other ball game. Speaking of ball games, Inditex president and Zara billionaire Amancio Ortega’s daughter, Marta Ortega, made a surprise visit to Lugo to cheer on her son at a football match. While it’s customary for the heiress and her husband, Carlos Torretta, to spend summers aboard their superyacht Valoria B, cruising the warm azure waters of Spain with friends and family, this slight detour to land was thanks to a tournament organized by SD Ribadeo, where her eldest son, also named Amancio, was participating.
A true champion of quiet luxury, Marta may have tried to blend in with the crowd, but her 154-foot Feadship yacht made sure she didn’t go unnoticed. Named after Valoria la Buena, the small town in Valladolid where Amancio Ortega’s mother, Josefa Gaona, was born, Valoria B is often seen as Marta’s serene escape.
Though it’s the most modest vessel in the Ortega fleet, her father recently added the $300 million, 302-foot Drizzle, Valoria B still managed to steal the spotlight. Locals at the small town of Ribadeo were left open-mouthed by the elegant yacht with its nine crew members, according to Hola!
But perhaps what stunned them more than the grandeur of the boat was the gesture itself, a billionaire businesswoman showing up to support her son at a football match, in a superyacht. And she doesn’t just cruise in style. The 40-year-old, who juggles her global fashion duties, also zips across continents in her Gulfstream G650ER, one of the world’s fastest private jet.
154-footer Valoria B is modest by Ortega standards-
One look at Valoria B, delivered in 2018, and you know it belongs in Amancio Ortega’s elite yacht fleet. The midnight blue hull, Matterhorn white aluminum superstructure, and exterior teak wood with stainless steel accents mirror the elegant design language seen in his other vessels. Designed by Studio De Voogt, this walkaround deckhouse yacht is a timeless classic. While it may look understated compared to the sleek new Drizzle, the yacht still delivers a top speed of 14.5 knots and an impressive 4,000-nautical mile range. Up to 10 guests can enjoy its comforts across five staterooms, all within its 582 GT build.
Boss lady who went from folding jeans to making billions-
Marta Ortega is the queen atop the throne of the Inditex empire, which includes Zara, Bershka, and Massimo Dutti. One of the most powerful women in global fashion, she has spent nearly two decades at Inditex since joining in 2007, rising from tidying fitting rooms to steering the company to €35.9 billion ($40 billion) in sales in 2023, with net income climbing over 30% to €5.4 billion ($6 billion). As she once put it, she has “lived and breathed this company since my childhood” and is committed to “building upon my parents’ legacy, looking to the future but learning from the past.”
