Biography of Edoardo Agnelli

The search for life

9 June 1954 15 November 2000 Edoardo Agnelli was born in New York on June 9, 1954, first day of the two sons of the great industrialist Gianni Agnelli, FIAT's Executive-owner and maximum (the mother is Marella Caracciolo dei Principi di Castagneto). Edward completes the glstudi over at the Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin; later he studied in the United Kingdom attending Atlantic College and perfect your own path by attending Princeton University in the United States, where he graduated in modern literature. The father Gianni Agnelli would want as his successor at the top of the family business, but Edoardo reveals lack of interest in material possessions, devoting most of his interests in the study of philosophical and spiritual themes. Just 22 years argues about printing with Margherita Hack, defending the values of astrology. Then travel several times in India where he met the holy man Sathya Sai Baba; later Edoardo Agnelli goes to Tehran, Iran, where he remains impressed by the mystical figure of Ayatollah Khomeini: approaches and then to Shiite Islam; in the following years will make many trips to Iran, as well as in Kenya. In 1990, at the age of 36 years at Malindi, the Italian news (but also the international one) put spotlight on eachother they see Edoardo Agnelli stopped by authorities for possession of heroin: is later acquitted. In his rare interviews granted to newspapers, claims to want to distance themselves from the values of capitalism and declaring that he wanted to devote to theological studies. No secret to sympathize for Marxism-Leninism in mystical key, as well as Shiite Iran sympathises with the; According to some he even changed his name to hiring one. It appears in very few public occasions, mostly religious events or whose theme is the anti-nuclear protest. The father makes several attempts to place the child in any of the activities related to the large family business group: Edoardo also makes a brief stint as a member of the Board of Directors of Juventus; However these attempts have led to nothing definitive. On the morning of November 15, 2000 Edoardo Agnelli's body is found lifeless at the foot of a Turin-Savona motorway viaduct, near Fossano. His car, a Fiat Croma, is parked on the side of the roadway of the viaduct with the engine still running. The judiciary concludes his investigation by formulating the hypothesis of suicide. His body rests in Villar Perosa, in the monumental tomb of the Agnelli family Lapo Elkann-that of Edward's nephew--called it an "impatient suffering", one who "saw no possibility of a happy life".

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