Amy Sacco, the woman who's often called the queen of New York nightlife, would prefer to stay mum about her new fiancé, the tall Italian doctor who proposed to her a few days ago, in Rome, on a bridge overlooking the Tiber River. Really, she says, this is a part of her life that she'd prefer to keep private. But?oh, well!?there's an item in today's Page Six about the surprise engagement, which occurred only six weeks after the couple met, so the secret is already out. And in any case, when Sacco gets excited about something, which happens often, she's not the type to hold back.
"I've found a real man. Yeah!" she says, beaming, in a suite at the St Martins Lane hotel in London, where she's preparing to open a branch of her club, Bungalow 8. A few details about her betrothed, Luigi de Carolis: He's a Rome-based surgeon, a kite surfer and a "very serious and strong" person, says Sacco, who met him in New York through a mutual friend. After the proposal, the two stayed in Rome for Valentino's 45th-anniversary celebration, and then de Carolis took Sacco to see the family palazzo. "I think his mother's a countess, but I don't know," says Sacco in her gravelly baritone. "I always said I'd marry the pizza guy, but I'm marrying the palazzo guy."
