It’s no overstatement to call her family controversial

The 45-year-old socialite is the daughter of the late sixth Marquess of Bristol, Victor Hervey, and his third wife Yvonne Marie Sutton. The pair were once worth US$100 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, but her arms dealer father went bankrupt and was jailed after being convicted of jewellery theft. The family then went into tax exile in Monaco when Victoria was a toddler. He died when Victoria was eight years old.

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Meanwhile, Victoria’s half-brother John Hervey, the seventh Marquess of Bristol, reportedly wasted his inheritance of about US$47 million on drugs and extravagant living before he lost the family seat, Ickworth House, to the National Trust. He died at 44 years old in 1999. Another of her half-brothers, Lord Nicholas Hervey, died by suicide in 1998 at age 36 after a battle with depression.

Not all of Victoria’s siblings are black sheep though. Her younger sister, Lady Isabella Hervey, 39, has competed on multiple reality TV shows and the pair remain close.

She has an estimated net worth of US$15 million

Her father died when she was just eight years old and her mother cut her off financially after she decided not to go to university, according to Hello! magazine. However, she got a job as a receptionist for film producer Michael Winner.

Standing at 182cm (six feet) tall, Hervey started her own career in entertainment as a model in the UK with the goal of becoming a TV presenter, also according to Hello!, but ended up making it big on the Paris runway for Christian Dior.

The “It” girl also opened a London fashion boutique called Akademi at the height of her notoriety on the party scene in 2000 – a store that was frequented by Victoria Beckham and Love Actually actress Martine McCutcheon. However, the shop wasn’t a success and shuttered in 2001.

Hervey has also enjoyed success on the small screen, making a cameo in Absolutely Fabulous in 2001, and currently runs her Ladyship swimwear line.

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“Models got taken advantage of all the time,” she said about her socialite days, according to Yahoo! Movies. “We were just sort of a pretty face to have and entertain people. I was definitely one of the luckier ones and I’m aware of that.”

She has put her party days behind her

These days, Hervey is more likely to be seen walking her dog in LA or getting vitamin injections in London than going wild on the clubbing circuit. “I am not like my late half-brothers,” she said in 2013, according to The Daily Mail in 2013.