Exclusive | Audrey Hepburns introverted granddaughter is no nepo baby, she says: I am not a party person
She may be the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, but Emma Ferrer is no nepo baby. Unlike most celebrity scions, the 30-year-old — who was born 18 months after her famous grandmother’s death — has shunned the spotlight, spending her days painting at her home in Tuscany, Italy.The understated artist has been honing her craft for more than a decade, quietly working away on paintings for her first-ever solo show, “The Scapegoat,” now on view at Sapar Contemporary in Tribeca.“I am extremely introverted and dedicated,” Ferrer told The Post this week.
“I’m not a party person or a social person, so I just really like living in this very beautiful, rural, secluded place with my dogs and my boyfriend.” Ferrer met her boyfriend, Italian artist Thomas Pucci, in a scene that could have been plucked from one of her grandmother’s whimsical rom-coms.In 2021, shortly after moving to Tuscany’s Apuan Alps, Ferrer found herself lost while hiking in the woods.“Essentially, I could have died — they sent out search and rescue parties for me,” she explained.
“Luckily I found my neighbors before the search and rescue parties found me, but somehow the media was alerted about the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn being lost in the woods.“Someone sent my boyfriend the article, being, like, ‘This girl in your village got lost.’ So he wrote to me on Instagram and was, like, ‘I know all the hiking trails.'”Ferrer — whose father is the older of Hepburn’s two sons — was born in Switzerland and spent her childhood between Italy and Los Angeles.In Tinseltown, she attended Crossroads, the notorious “nepo baby school” where celebs such as Gwyneth Paltrow, LeBron James, Meg Ryan and Kate Hudson have all sent their offspring.“I was really young when I lived in LA, but you feel that trickle-down effect of Hollywood and everything that it’s about … Even the sort of social dynamics,” Ferrer recalled, expressing an early aversion to fame.She comple...