Who is Nicholas Riccio? Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt's husband went from homeless to millionaire

Karoline Leavitt made past erstwhile she became America's youngest property caput astatine 27, but the precocious achiever is besides a devoted parent and loving wife.

Leavitt, who is known for her gun-loving ways and blimpish values, had her archetypal White House briefing connected Tuesday, delivering barbed insults to 'legacy media' arsenic good arsenic announcing that societal media influencers and contented creators volition beryllium capable to be her briefings.

She past we connected to state 'sanity has been restored,' and that 'Trump is everyplace again,' instantly becoming the MAGA darling of the Trump administration. 

Leavitt is besides accelerated becoming a White House benignant icon, stunning successful the Brady Press Briefing Room connected Tuesday successful a gorgeous, berry-colored two-piece suit with a belted back.

She besides made waves aft donning a gorgeous gray-blue overgarment to her swearing successful ceremony. 

The woman and parent hails from New Hampshire, and ran for the U.S. House to correspond New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District successful 2022.

While the wide nationalist is accelerated becoming acquainted with the blonde's nonrecreational life, not arsenic overmuch is known astir her backstage life, including husband Nicholas Riccio - who is 32 years her senior.

Here, FEMAIL look into Riccio's life, who went from rags to riches and is present joined to Trump's property secretary.

Who is Nicholas Riccio and however did they meet?

Riccio, 59, founded the existent property concern Riccio Enterprises LLC and currently, helium manages beachfront houses successful New Hampshire, wherever the mates is from.

While helium has a palmy concern now, the doting hubby hasn't ever had a unchangeable home.

According to the Portsmouth Herald, Riccio was surviving connected the streets by the property of 18, relying connected friends for basal hygrine. 

'When I was 19 oregon 20, I would telephone my buddies to spell implicit their houses to ticker a crippled conscionable truthful I could instrumentality a shower,' Riccio told the section paper successful 2005.

He attended Plymouth State University, and kickstarted his vocation successful existent property aft completing a people successful 1990.

It is chartless however the mates met, with precise fewer posts astir Riccio connected Leavitt's societal media account. He besides does not look to person a nationalist relationship of his own.

The List published a mentation that the mates met erstwhile Leavitt ran for a spot successful Congress, representing New Hampshire's archetypal district, successful 2022, and Riccio was moving connected her campaign concern committee.

Some of Riccio's properties person besides been utilized to big the Women for Trump event, which Leavitt attended.

When did the mates get married? 

Leavitt announced her engagement to her existent property mogul spouse connected Christmas Day successful 2023, announcing the quality successful an Instagram post.

It's unclear erstwhile they officially tied the knot, but the property caput has 'wife' successful her Instagram bio and appears to deterioration a wedding band.

The mates welcomed their archetypal son, Nicholas 'Niko' Robert, successful July 2024, with Leavitt gushing it was the 'best infinitesimal successful her life.' 

'It's existent erstwhile they accidental there's thing comparable to the emotion you consciousness for your child,' she wrote successful the caption, on with a bid of pictures.

The station continued: 'My bosom has grown bigger than I ever imagined possible. Babies are the eventual blessing and I'm bursting with gratitude for our beautiful, happy, steadfast boy.'

Leavitt was famously was connected maternity permission erstwhile Donald Trump was changeable astatine during a rally successful Pennsylvania, which, encouraged her accelerated instrumentality to enactment - just four days aft giving birth.

Riccio is simply a doting dada to babe Nico 

In October, Leavitt spoke to The Conservateur, about juggling motherhood with her fast-paced job.

She said she was thankful for her Riccio and his flexible enactment schedule, arsenic helium could instrumentality attraction of Nico portion she was astatine work. 

'Leaving the babe each time to spell to work, it does interruption your heart, Leavitt admitted.

'It's incredibly challenging emotionally, physically, spiritually,' she added.