Madison, Tiffany, Paris, and Bianca Lucci lived in Beverly Hills in a huge house with a pool; their peers were envious. But behind closed doors, their lives were unbearable.
What they had to endure as young, vulnerable children will chill you to the core. The girls’ father favored his sons; he would yell at his girls daily and tell them they were good for nothing. He even denied them adequate food.
Teachers cottoned on; the girls’ math teacher, in particular, noticed his students would come to school hungry and took to bringing them oatmeal so they could start each day out right.
The local grocery store, said Madison, would even allow the youngsters to take a few items for free, fearing they were underfed.
The quads’ father would regularly call their school to claim that they were sick and then force his young daughters to complete his work tasks for him. The girls spent countless afternoons putting up posters for their father around town rather than studying at school as they should have been (and wanted to be) doing.
The girls’ father had a violent temper too. He once threw Paris so hard against the ground that she broke her arm. At hospital, he claimed she had slipped and fallen. But mercifully, the suffering sisters couldn’t hide every cut and scar; after noticing blood, a concerned school teacher staged an intervention.
“In sixth grade, I walked out to the restroom, and I came back and my teacher saw some red, dried blood on my forehead,” Madison explained. “She asked me where did I get that, but me, as a little kid, I didn’t think she would tell anyone.”
Luckily, she did. The police arrived, as did the quads’ mother, who opened up about the horrors of life at home. Their father got a restraining order, but it only lasted for seven days.
Weeks later, on the night before Christmas, the girls’ mother told her daughters that she was going out to buy them some extra presents. She never returned. A few weeks later, there was a knock at the door of the family’s Beverly Hills home; it was the police, and they had come for the girls.
Their mother, sadly, had mental health issues that prevented her from giving her girls the protection and care they needed. To their horror, the 13-year-old Lucci quads were separated and placed in foster care. It wasn’t to be the end of their suffering.
“[Our father] would find out what foster homes we were at,” Paris explained, “and he would call them and threaten them so they would give up on us.”
Finally, however, respite arrived in the form of loving foster mother Nadine Jett. She took all four girls in together.
But the Lucci quads broke the mold. Together, they are living proof that people can survive dire circumstances with enough love and support. “My sisters were the three biggest supporters,” Tiffany shared.
