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Giorgio Agnelli (12 May 1929 – 11 May 1965) was a member of the Agnelli family.

Early life and family

Born in Turin, the second son of Virginia Agnelli (born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and of the industrialist Edoardo Agnelli, he was their sixth child. Until 1996, his older brother Gianni Agnelli was the head of Fiat S.p.A., which was founded by Giovanni Agnelli.[1] He studied at Harvard University in the United States. Unlike the other members of the family, he could not participate in industrial and financial activities due to a serious illness.[2][3] Considered a family rebel along with Edoardo Agnelli, the eldest child and only son of Gianni and Marella Agnelli who also did not participate in the family business and died by suicide at the age of 46, he was described as caring about his family and suffered from being marginalized.[4]

Death

Agnelli died at age 35 in a Swiss clinic in Rolle at Lake Geneva, where he had been treated for a long time.[5] According to the poet Marta Vio, who was his companion for ten years, he had long suffered from schizophrenia. They met in 1946 on the beach of Forte dei Marmi, the holiday resort of the Agnelli family.[6] His death, officially ruled a suicide when he jumped off from the clinic's window, remains a mystery.[7][8] Italian journalist Antonio Parisi wrote a book about it.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ Furini, Gigi (11 October 2005). "L'ombra di un tragico destino sulla famiglia Agnelli". La Repubblica (in Italian). ISSN 0390-1076. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via Gelocal.
  2. ^ Ferrante, Marco (2007). Casa Agnelli. Storie e personaggi dell'ultima dinastia italiana (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. pp. 184–189. ISBN 978-88-04-56673-1.
  3. ^ Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010). Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. pp. 263–275. ISBN 978-88-7381-307-1.
  4. ^ Stefanutto Rosa, Stefano (27 November 2010). "Giovanni Piperno: i ribelli della famiglia Agnelli". Cinecittà News (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  5. ^ Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010). Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. p. 216. ISBN 978-88-7381-307-1.
  6. ^ Mecucci, Gabriella; Ripa di Meana, Marina (2010). Virginia Agnelli. Madre e farfalla (in Italian). Argelato: Minerva Edizioni. p. 223. ISBN 978-88-7381-307-1.
  7. ^ Masneri, Michele (2 June 2011). "Il 'pezzo mancante' di casa Agnelli". Rivista Studio (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  8. ^ Bardi, Giuliano Guida; Telese, Luca (15 December 2022). "Morti misteriose, lingotti d'oro, guerre di potere: ecco tutti i segreti della famiglia Agnelli-Elkann". The Post Internazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  9. ^ "'Gli Agnelli. Segreti, misteri e retroscena della dinastia che ha dominato la storia del Novecento italiano' di Antonio Parisi". Letture.org (in Italian). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Gli Agnelli, segreti misteri e retroscena di una dinastia". Giornale Sentire (in Italian). 2 April 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023.

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