At eighteen, Camila Capriles Mileo lives a life that reads like Succession with a Latin accent. Between New York, Miami, Paris, and Madrid, she travels aboard a private Gulfstream G-450 where a Japanese chef prepares made-to-order sushi and sashimi. From the sky, she surveys the world her family—one of Venezuela’s richest and most controversial—has built over decades at the intersection of politics, media, public money, and European high society.
Camila is the eldest daughter of Armando “Coco” Capriles Capriles—an heir to the Capriles clan, former owners of the Cadena Capriles media group—and Corina Mileo Trotta, a direct descendant of Spanish nobility. Together they embody the fusion of Venezuela’s new money and Europe’s old blood. The family fortune, estimated at over $2 billion, was forged through financial operations, real estate, and currency schemes during the Chávez era and now expands discreetly across Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland.
Between private skies and European aristocracy
Born in New York and educated between the U.S. and Europe, Camila is the archetype of Latin America’s new royalty: cosmopolitan, athletic, unencumbered by a political past, and backed by a storied surname. She divides her time between an Upper East Side apartment and family residences in Paris (Avenue Foch), Gstaad, London, Los Roques, and the Bahamas, where she kitesurfs and skis.
In Madrid, her parents own a dream duplex facing El Retiro, designed by Pascua Ortega. From there, Camila moves comfortably among Spain’s aristocracy and Europe’s jet set: Tatiana Santo Domingo and Andrea Casiraghi; Natalia Vodianova and Antoine Arnault; the Medina Sidonia, Abelló, and Del Pino families; and the children of style icon Naty Abascal, a close friend of the family.
She is not just a frequent guest in noble circles; her father is actively steering her toward them. In 2023, Armando Capriles filed a case in Spanish courts to claim the Marquessate of Irache with Grandee of Spain, currently held by Luis Alexis Villanova-Ratazzi Ferrán, a descendant of Napoleon. The legal argument rests on the lineage of Camila’s mother, Corina Mileo, whose great-grandmother, Elia Barrera González de Aguilar-Ponce de León y Fernández-Golfín, was—per family records—a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus and related to the houses of Alba, Medinaceli, and Alburquerque. “Elia’s descendants have superior right to the title,” say family sources.
An inheritance of gilded stains
Camila belongs to one of Venezuela’s most powerful families. Her great-grandfather, Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala, founded Cadena Capriles, the country’s largest newspaper group—Últimas Noticias, El Mundo, Kena. For half a century, no Venezuelan president governed without negotiating with the Capriles empire.
That empire fractured under Chávez. Some branches of the clan were frozen out; others—like Armando “Coco” Capriles—adapted. “Coco” amassed a monumental fortune during the era of currency controls and structured notes, financial instruments green-lit by Nelson Merentes, the former Central Bank chief, and José Gregorio Vielma Mora, ex-head of the tax authority.
Records linked to the Suisse Secrets leak show Armando Capriles held Credit Suisse accounts with balances above 140 million Swiss francs, opened between 2014 and 2016, overlapping with his indirect mention in the U.S. case against Francisco “Pancho” Illarramendi, the Venezuelan adviser convicted over a $700 million scheme. His name also surfaces in state real-estate deals at inflated prices—the Centro Capriles and the Torre Provincial—during the Chávez boom, and in transactions with sanctioned businessman Raúl Gorrín, who publicly confirmed selling him a $281,000 boat in 2021.
Corina Mileo: the clan’s blue blood
Camila’s mother, Corina Mileo Trotta, blends Sevillian aristocratic pedigree with Caracas high-society polish. A descendant of the Barrera, Aguilar, and Ponce de León lines, she maintains an active social life between Miami, Madrid, and Italy. A close friend of Naty Abascal and philanthropist Santi Chumaceiro, she participates in charity events alongside artists and Venezuelan figures in exile.
In 2021 she celebrated her birthday in Miami with a performance by the duo SanLuis, while in Spain she alternates between fashion salons and Madrid’s cultural circuit. On social media she often appears with Camila at art events or in the beach enclaves of Comporta and Marbella.
The dynasty’s new face
Camila, however, is trying to build a narrative of her own. She studies Music Industry at Loyola University New Orleans, exploring production and songwriting. She has played competitive soccer, DJs as an amateur, and collects contemporary art. Her aesthetic merges luxury with androgyny: unisex tailoring, retro sunglasses, short hair—a look that rejects the classic heiress mold.
Removed from frivolity, she projects modernity—yet always framed by symbols of power: private jets, friendships with Europe’s elite, and a multimillion-dollar inheritance that fuses money, nobility, and controversy.
A life between the Capriles brand and the Crown
Despite her age, Camila has been spotted in ultra-high-profile settings, including travel with Spain’s royal circle. In 2021, she joined her parents on a private flight to Abu Dhabi to celebrate King Juan Carlos I’s 83rd birthday, in a small group that included the Marquess of La Sauceda, her mother’s uncle. On the return flight to Madrid, Infanta Elena was among the passengers.
Her father, Armando Capriles, remains active in Madrid real estate through entities such as Sunny Selirpac and Monina Inversiones, with declared capital surpassing €19 million. His ties to Spanish royalty and business are the newest link in a family that has reinvented itself across three generations: from media power to financial might; from chavista Venezuela to European aristocracy.
The future of an heiress
Camila Capriles Mileo embodies the new face of Latin American heirs: global, polished, strategically discreet. Three legacies converge in her: Venezuelan money rooted in old monopolies; Spanish nobility litigated in court; and a generation determined to rewrite its story without naming the source of its wealth.
Aboard her jet, between New York and Madrid, Camila represents the continuity of a lineage that recognizes no borders—a dynasty that traded newspapers for financial power, power for noble titles, and noise for a new elegance: luxury without questions.
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