2 He was the son of Edoardo Agnelli and Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino. Carlo was born on July 7 1743, in racconigi. He "died at the age of 81, after a prolonged battle with prostate cancer". In 2015, he was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.[2]. 1977) [7][8] Gianni Agnelli in fact had defended the actions of Romiti and the co-accused Francesco Paolo Mattioli, Fiat's chief financial officer. They signed contracts with Merrill Lynch which allowed Ifil "to retain its 30 per cent of Fiat in spite of banks in the same period converting billions of euros of debt owed to them by Fiat into equity in the company. Its Mirafiori plant in Turin, built 600,000 autos a year. [16][17], February 1992 saw the start of the mani pulite (Clean Hands) judicial inquiry into Tangentopoli,[18][19][20] nationwide corruption with a large number of politicians, bureaucrats and entrepreneurs involved including senior Fiat executives. His mother was Antonella Piaggio, … He was chairman of Fiat Auto 1980–90 and a member of International Advisory Board 1993–2004. Gianni was a Fiat CEO. Agnelli won the election but served an undistinguished three-year term. 1965), This page was last edited on 19 December 2020, at 18:14. In the 1970s Gianni and Umberto Agnelli hired Cesare Romiti, known as Il Duro or the tough guy. [24] Edoardo Agnelli, Gianni's first-born son died in 2000.[24]. Find the perfect umberto agnelli stock photo. [34], In 2011, Stevens was influential in encouraging Exor CEO John Elkann to move Exor's headquarters from Turin to Hong Kong. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[3]. "[3][1] eventually filing "a lawsuit against her father’s three longtime advisors: Gabetti, Grande Stevens and Marrone and her own mother, Marella Agnelli, on May 30, 2007. Join Facebook to connect with Roberto Agnelli and others you may know. John Elkann (1976–) is the chairman and CEO of Exor, an investment company controlled by the Agnelli family, which controls Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), CNH Industrial, Ferrari, Juventus F.C., Cushman & Wakefield and the Economist Group. "Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Umberto_Agnelli&oldid=993706576, Members of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 December 2020, at 01:42. He had seven children, Clara (1920–2016), Gianni (1921–2003), Susanna (1922–2009), Maria Sole Agnelli (1925–), Cristiana (1927–), Giorgio Agnelli (1929–1965) and Umberto (1934–2004). Agnelli is the son of late Juventus F.C. He was a senator of the Italian Republic, from 1976 to 1979. Romiti was instrumental in the company's return to profitability during this period. Agnelli wanted to represent a constituency near his hometown of Turin, yet he was forced to accept one in Rome. Umberto Agnelli (1 November 1934 – 27 May 2004) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. In the course of our lives, of our generation, there also have been happier moments. In 1959 Agnelli married the heiress Donna Antonella Bechi Piaggio, from the well-known business-family of Piaggio. He served as a CEO of Italian carmaker Fiat from 1970 to 1976[1] and, on the death of his brother Gianni, was briefly chairman of the FIAT Group, 2003–2004, until his own death, aged 69, the following year. 2011) Anna Agnelli (b. chairman and senator of the Italian Republic Umberto Agnelli, CEO of Fiat from 1970 to 1976, and Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, first cousin of Marella Agnelli, born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto and daughter of Filippo Caracciolo, 8th Prince di Castagneto, 3rd Duke di Melito, and a hereditary Patrician of Naples (1903–1965). [39], The Agnellis have been credited for much of the team's success and, by extension, in the development of national football, due an administrative gestion model and sporting ethos called by the country's mass media since the 1930s as Stile Juventus (Juventus Style)[40][41] based in patience, consistency and a kind of effective and efficient long-term strategic planning unusual for the administrative model generally used in Italy, both of which the ownership is renowned for. Umberto Agnelli was born on November 1 1934 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Giorgio Agnelli (1929-65) Umberto Agnelli (1934-2004) married firstly Antonella Bechi Piaggio (divorced) and then Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto . L'Avvocato's death was associated with the closing of a chapter by "commentators, politicians, and institutional representatives."[20]:193. Agnelli was chairman of Fiat France 1965–80, chief executive officer of Fiat SpA 1970–76 and vice-president 1976–93. At the prestigious 2008 photography exhibition in Rome entitled Gianni Agnelli: An Extraordinary Life, the Agnelli family and the Italian government honoured L’Avvocato. Umberto Agnelli (Italian: [umˈbɛrto aɲˈɲɛlli]; 1 November 1934 – 27 May 2004) was an Italian industrialist and politician. Umberto Agnelli was chairman and later honorary chairman of Juventus, the football team long-associated with FIAT and the Agnelli family. Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) was the oldest son of the industrialist and principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat, Edoardo Agnelli.After WWII he earned a Law degree at Turin University and his nickname was L’Avvocato (“The Lawyer”). Umberto Agnelli was born on Nov. 1, 1934, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Edoardo Agnelli and Princess Virginia Bourbon del Monte di San Faustino. [23]:18 By 2003, when he died, "The GA&C partnership was worth about 1.3 billion euros, and its assets consisted of listed holding companies Istituto Finanziario Industriale (IFI) and Istituto Finanziaria di Partecipazioni (IFIL), through which the family controlled Fiat and IFIL’s stakes in other companies. Umberto Agnelli's grand nieces and grand nephews: Umberto Agnelli's great nephew is John Elkann Umberto Agnelli's great nephew is Lapo Elkann Umberto Agnelli's great niece is Ginevra Elkann Umberto Agnelli's great niece is Marella Zampolli Umberto Agnelli's great niece is Martina Zampolli Umberto Agnelli's great niece is Anna Sermonti Umberto Agnelli's great nephew is Pietro Sermonti Umberto … Umberto Agnelli, (born November 1, 1934, Lausanne, Switzerland—died May 27, 2004, Turin, Italy), Italian automotive executive and grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of Fiat SpA.He served as the company’s chairman from 2003 to 2004. His grandmother, Marella Agnelli (1927–) gave her shares to him to secure his control of the family empire. His father died when he was 1, his mother when he was 11. 1955) married firstly, Samaritana Rattazzi (b. Anna had 12 siblings: G.Battista Lorenzo Agnelli , Giacinto Giuseppe Agnelli and 10 other siblings . [3] The lawsuit demanded that Gabetti, Grande Stevens, and Marrone provide a report on her father's estate "with information pertaining to the historic evolution of the assets" from January 24, 1993, forward." [15] Paolo Fresco succeeded him in the aforementioned post. Allegra is the first cousin of Umberto's sister in law Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, the wife of his brother Giovanni (Gianni). After graduating from the University of Turin with a law degree in 1959, Agnelli joined the family’s automotive enterprise, Fiat. Gianni Agnelli … In Turin, Italy in March 2010 Judge Brunella Rosso rejected the lawsuit filed against Margherita’s mother Marella Agnelli and advisers Franzo Grande Stevens and Gianluigi Gabetti. [3] At one time the Agnelli assets represented 4.4% of Italy's GDP. [32], Gianni Agnelli's longtime financial advisors were Franzo Grande Stevens and Gianluigi Gabetti. 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Umberto Agnelli, born 1 November 1934 (Thursday) - Lausanne, Suisse, deceased 28 May 2004 (Friday) - Torino, Italie aged 69 years old, Président de FIAT. Umberto was in the process of restoring Fiat's fortunes, following a period in which the company's balance sheet, market share and share value had all been in decline, when he suddenly died of lung cancer after barely 18 months in control. "[33], Gianluigi Gabetti was director general of IFIL Group, the family investment company since 1971 and worked there as Gianni’s closest financial adviser for over 30 years. He had two children with Allegra, Andrea and Anna. Umberto Agnelli was born in 1934, the youngest of seven children. She divided up Gianni Agnelli's (1934–2003) personal assets with her daughter, Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen. Andrea Agnelli Married toEmma Winter Andrea later followed in his father's footsteps by becoming chairman of Juventus, in 2010. Virginia was born on May 24 1899, in Roma, Italia. Umberto and Antonella Agnelli later divorced, and in 1974 Umberto married Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto. Up until 2000, IFIL’s profits had grown every year for 15 years, and it had paid 82.7 million euros in dividends to IFI, its parent company, in 2000.". Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (1964-97) Andrea Agnelli (b. 2 likes. Edoardo Agnelli (1892–1935), industrialist and principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat, was the son of Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), the founder of Fiat. CEO Sergio Marchionne returned the company to profit in 2005. Prince Sebastian von Fürstenberg (1950) he married Elisabetta Guarnati in 1972. Umberto's wife, Allegra, as well as his children Andrea and Anna, were with Umberto when he died in their home just outside Turin, the Apcom news agency said. Agnelli's daughter Susanna Agnelli is the first woman to have been Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy. GRUPPO VINCENTE JUVE E BASTA [23]:26 When Gianni died in 2003, Umberto asked the octogenarian to return as CEO of Ifil. [7], In 1996 when Gianni reached the mandatory retirement age of 75[8] after serving as Fiat chairman for 30 years,[7] Romiti replaced him as chairman. 1892, d. 1935, plane crash) Mother: Virginia Bourbon del Monte di San Faustino (b. married Emma Winter . Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) was the oldest son of the industrialist and principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat, Edoardo Agnelli. [21] "Mr. Romiti and Mr. Mattioli had approved a series of slush funds from 1980 through 1992 to provide for Fiat's illegal political contributions and had falsified accounts to hide the payments. 1934 November 1, 1934. This saved Chrysler. If they were unable to find a solution, Fiat would belong to its creditor banks. He was also chairman and later honorary chairman[citation needed] of Juventus, the football team long-associated with FIAT and the Agnelli family, and was for a time the president of the Italian Football Association. The third son, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, grew up to be the head of the maternal family-firm Piaggio, and was being groomed to succeed at Fiat, but died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1997. Fiat Group, core business of the clan, have majority control and some participation in several Italian organizations: EXOR, the family's holding company, owns over 47% of the shares of the Economist Group. In 1899, Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945) and a group of investors founded the company Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino (FIAT). Baya Agnelli (b. [1] She had three children John, Lapo and Ginevra who inherited the largest shares of the Agnelli fortune. "[23]:18, By the time of Gianni Agnelli's death in 2003, the "Agnelli family controlled Fiat through a chain of three separate holding companies. Gianni Agnelli married Marella Agnelli (1927–2019)[25][26][27] They had one son Edoardo Agnelli and one daughter Countess Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen. "There was a war and I, like many others, took part. "[10], Gianni Agnelli was considered to be the most prominent spokesperson representing the Italian economic elites. The share of the Nasi, represented by Alessandro, instead reaches 8.79%. since the club's conversion to a public limited company in 1967. [38] That society between the club and the Torinese industrial dynasty is the oldest and most uninterrupted in Italian sports, making it one of the first professional sporting clubs in the country. "[24] Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, Gianni's nephew, who died of cancer in 1997, had been in line to take control of the family companies. Only then did he take over as chairman of the whole Fiat Group, 2003–2004. His brother, Gianni Agnelli, was the head of Fiat until 1996. Umberto Agnelli (1 November 1934 – 27 May 2004) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician.His brother was Gianni Agnelli.. In a lawsuit filed in 2007 and rejected in 2010, Margherita Agnelli asked that the "2004 inheritance agreement signed with her mother be annulled, claiming that it was based on incomplete information. According to an article in the Financial Post,[33] in February 2007 Consob, Italy's market regulator, fined the Agnelli family holding company, then-called Ifil (now known as Exor), for engaging in a complicated illegal trade in 2005. His father Edoardo Agnelli perished in an air crash when he was one year old, and his mother Virginia died in a car accident ten years later when he was just 11 years old. They had three sons but their first, twin boys, died shortly after birth. His son Andrea is the current chairman of Juventus. "[22] Giovanni Agnelli & C. (GA&C), the family’s limited partnership was Gianni's command center. [2] Most members of the family are stakeholders in privately owned Giovanni Agnelli B.V., incorporated in the Netherlands for tax purposes, which in turn has a controlling stake in the publicly listed holding company Exor. The family has sometimes been described in the English-speaking world as "the Kennedys of Italy" for their role in the country's contemporary history and their activity of patronage in modern art and in sports. Fiat is an "individual privately-owned oligopoly. By 2013 Chrysler was profitable again but an article in The Economist questioned the financial future of the merged company. His father was Umberto Agnelli, grandson of the founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, and the younger brother of Gianni. Then there were other events such as closer relations with the Americans, and I was there.... We had difficult moments such as terrorism, and I never pulled back. 25 January 1970), Princess Tatiana Desirée von Fürstenberg (b. His life was beset by an unusual amount of tragedy and bereavement. After WWII he earned a Law de­gree at Turin Uni­ver­sity and his nick­name was L’Avvo­cato (“The Lawyer”). "[20]:193, Professor Gaspare Nevola of the Università degli Studi di Trento, explained that Italian society celebrated a common sense of belonging and national identity through collective identification at Gianni Agnelli's Funeral. Agnelli was chairman of FIAT-controlled Juventus Football Club between 1956–61 and was honorary chairman from 1970–2004. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. Anna Agnelli. 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By 1956 he had become the "richest businessman in modern Italian history. Andrea Agnelli’s mother is the first cousin of Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, who was the wife of umberto's brother, Gianni. Despite this, Forbes magazine estimated he was the world's 68th richest man with an approximate net worth of US$5.5 billion. [10] In 2009 as the U.S. automobile industry was collapsing Fiat became a trailblazer by acquiring an initial 20% stake in the then-bankrupt Chrysler company in a deal with the Obama administration. His political experience was shadowed by a scandal in which the Agnelli Foundation donated funds to the right-win… Fiat president Umberto Agnelli has died at the age of 69, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Friday. The Group controlled several Italian newspapers and publishers in addition to the FIAT car-firms and Juventus. Even the heirs of Umberto Agnelli, represented by his son Andrea and his sister Anna, increase their participation rising to 11.85% of GA Bv and thus becoming second shareholders ahead of the Maria Sole branch, which instead fell from 12.56% to 11.63%. When Umberto was 40 years old, he married Allegra Caracciolo. When the big push came, it fell to pieces while the royal court continued to fight over succession." ... Allegra, his son, Andrea, and daughter, Anna. In 2004 John Elkann married Donna Lavinia Borromeo, an heiress of the Borromeo family. [3] As of 2020, the extended Agnelli family comprised about two hundred members.[3]. 1 He married, secondly, Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, daughter of Don Adolfo Caracciolo di Castagneto and Donna Anna Visconti di Modrone. Umberto Agnelli was born on 1 November 1934. Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen (1955–present) the "only daughter and sole surviving child" of Gianni Agnelli, received an estimated inheritance of $2 billion when her father, Gianni Agnelli died. [42] Juventus success in the first half of the 1930s allowed that management to influence in the management model from other Serie A clubs since the end of World War II, emerging as the reference organisational model for the sport in the Peninsula. Fiat had taken out a three-billion-euro loan made in 2002 and was unable to pay it back. 1948) president of FIAT in, Nuno Brandolini d'Adda married Phan van Thiet, Brandino Brandolini d'Adda married Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (1964–1997) married Frances Avery Howe (b. According to the Independent Fiat survived the early first years of the twentieth century thanks to "generous government subsidies paid by Italian taxpayers. Gianni e Umberto Agnelli, 1965 - san dl SAN IMG-00001296.jpg 429 × 583; 121 KB Iotti Umberto e Gianni Agnelli.jpg 546 × 393; 36 KB Umberto Agnelli and Antonella Piaggio 1960 Olympics.jpg 772 × 794; 164 KB Gi­anni Ag­nelli (1921–2003) was the old­est son of the in­dus­tri­al­ist and prin­ci­pal fam­ily share­holder of the Ital­ian car com­pany Fiat, Edoardo Ag­nelli. They had two children, a son named Andrea born in 1975, and a daughter Anna born in 1977. "[10][11][12][13][14] Romiti led the firm from 28 February 1996 to 22 June 1998. "[33] According to an article in the Financial Post, Gianluigi Gabetti, Virgilio Marrone and Franzo Grande Stevens, "were suspended from holding posts in public companies for between two and six months. [8] A 1997 article published in The Economist quoted Gianni Agnelli confidence in the Turin Two's innocence and concluded that business attitudes among Italy's powerful ancien régime was left unchanged since the scandal of tangentopoli (“bribesville”) emerged. Umberto and Allegra had two children: Andrea (born 1975) and Anna (born 1977). Anna Maria Caterina Agnelli was born in 1790, to Carlo Francesco Antonio Agnelli and Maria Teresa Agnelli (born Vacchetta). View the profiles of people named Roberto Agnelli. Though he was a senior executive in the family company, Fiat, he was sidelined from taking a leadership role by his brother Gianni until the latter's death in 2003.