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	Encyclopedia: Gianni Agnelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Agnelli was born at his parents' country house, Villar Perosa, near Turin, Italy as the son of Eduardo Agnelli (1892-1935) and Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte (1899-1945), a daughter of the Prince di San Faustino and his Kentucky-born wife Jane Campbell.
		Giovanni Alberto, the son of Gianni's younger brother, Umberto Agnelli, died of a rare form of cancer in 1997 at age 33 while he was being groomed by his uncle to head the Fiat Group.
		Agnelli was named a senator for life in 1991 and subscribed to the parliamentary group for the autonomies (?ed.); he was later named a member of the senate's defense commission.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gianni-Agnelli (2304 words)

	Umberto Agnelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agnelli was a senior executive in Fiat which is an Agnelli family company but was sidelined by his brother Gianni Agnelli until his brother died in 2003.
		Elder son Giovanni Alberto Agnelli was groomed to succeed at Fiat but died young of cancer in 1997.
		Younger son Andrea was named a Fiat director after Umberto Agnelli's death, though Gianni Agnelli's grandson John Elkann, named vice chairman, the next likely family head of the company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umberto_Agnelli (222 words)

	Gianni Agnelli - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Agnelli was named a senator for life in 1991 and subscribed to the parliamentary group for the autonomies (?ed.); he was later named a member of the senate's defence commission.
		The figure of Gianni Agnelli was also closely connected with the story of Juventus, one of the most famous Italian football clubs, of which he was a fan.
		Gianni's grandson John Elkann, a son of Margherita Agnelli and her first husband, novelist Alain Elkann, is expected to be the next head of Fiat.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Gianni_Agnelli (910 words)

	Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli dies at 81
		His death came as members of the Agnelli clan gathered for a meeting at which they planned to discuss the worst crisis in their century-old stewardship of a company whose cars were a symbol of Italy's post-war industrial miracle.
		Gianni's younger brother Umberto has recently been tipped as a new chairman of Fiat as the family tries to keep the reins of the nation's biggest private sector employer despite the increasing influence of creditor banks and pressure from the government.
		Agnelli's influence extended to the corridors of power in Rome where he was courted by politicians.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2003/01/24/153331.html (713 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Gianni Agnelli: A troubled tycoon
		The Agnelli family, with some 150 members involved in the business in some form, is a complicated beast, and its investments are suitably impenetrable.
		Mr Agnelli may have died a tycoon in a country run by a tycoon - billionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - but he was jarringly at odds with the Italy of the 21st century.
		Praise for Fiat's Agnelli from the Pope to Juventus
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/2690547.stm (855 words)

	Gianni Agnelli
		Gianni Agnelli became the president of Fiat in 1966.
		The figure of Gianni Agnelli was also closely connected with the story of Juventus, one of the most famous Italian football clubs, which he personally followed.
		Gianni's grandson John Elkann, is expected to be the next head of FIAT.
	www.termsdefined.net /gi/gianni-agnelli.html (917 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Gianni Agnelli, head of Fiat, dies aged 81
		Gianni Agnelli, the patriarch of the Fiat car dynasty, died yesterday aged 81.
		Agnelli was one of the 20th century's greatest playboys.
		Agnelli, who died yesterday at the age of 81, was the son of a princess and married the Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto from a Neapolitan family.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/25/wagn25.xml (954 words)

	Italy With Us - Ezine, page 2
		Gianni had chosen his daughter's son John Elkann, as his heir but it is thought that John will not be experienced enough to stop a sale of the car company.
		Gianni's foreign political connections were said to have opened Italy up to the rest of the world - he was a great ambassador for Italy and sold it very well abroad.
		Gianni was a friend of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan (Fiat was involved in the Star Wars research program), Gianni was also among the first to visit the Oval Office when George Bush became president.
	www.italywithus.biz /ezine/Feb03/page2.htm (2364 words)

	Antonioni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gianni's father was killed in a plane crash in 1935, and his mother was killed ten years later in a car accident (p.
		The Agnellis' lived all of their lives with all the pleasures one would expect to associate with that of noble family (though the Agnelli family does not have noble blood officially).
		In closing, Gianni Agnelli may not be the original founder of Fiat, but it was Gianni who made an unmistakable empire in Italy.
	www.uwgb.edu /galta/333/BIOS98/AGNELLI.HTM (1507 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age
		The Agnelli dynasty, which still owns one-third of the group, is locked in a power struggle with Fiat's creditor banks.
		Gianni Agnelli, Giovanni's grandson and Fiat's honorary chairman, has regularly eclipsed Italy's national political leaders in media importance when attending conferences.
		At one time, Gianni Agnelli alone was said to control, directly and indirectly, a quarter of the entire Italian stock exchange, worth $US25 billion ($A42.9 billion).
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/12/1041990180590.html (513 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Umberto Agnelli Dies, End of Era at Fiat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Agnelli, 69, died in the family villa La Mandria on the outskirts of Turin, less than three weeks after his company announced that he had lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes.
		Agnelli's rapid demise is the latest blow to one of the Italy's most glamorous families, whose fame in Italy is compared with the Kennedys in the United States.
		With Agnelli's death, the family leadership mantle passes to a much younger generation who have little experience in managing a company whose success was emblematic of Italy's post-war economic boom.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/05/28/fiat_chairman_umberto_agnelli_dies_reuters (845 words)

	CNN.com - Agnelli sailed in style - Jan. 27, 2003
		Agnelli was closely involved with the design of his yachts.
		Agnelli died at his Turin villa last week at the age of 81 and his funeral was held on Sunday.
		Agnelli, known for his great sense of style, was personally involved in all the details of his yachts and Stealth was no exception with everything on board, including the mast and sails, finished in fl.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/sailing/01/27/agnelli (270 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| 'Tell me what happened last night. Were the tarts pretty?'
		Agnelli smiles maliciously as I, sitting in the death seat next to him, and his chauffeur, as usual, sitting in the back, both cringe simultaneously.
		When Gianni befriended me in the late 1950s, his romantic feats were legendary, as were his houses, boats, style of entertainment, and art collection.
		Gianni was restless throughout his life, but the last 10 years brought peace - until, that is, the suicide of his manically depressed son, Edoardo, in 2000.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/26/wfiat26.xml (1811 words)

	GrandPrix.com > News > The importance of Gianni Agnelli
		Agnelli was clearly an important figure to Montezemolo, who has been Agnelli's protege since he was 15 years of age.
		Agnelli was a flamboyant public figure who consolidated almost all Italian car-making companies into the Fiat empire and expanded it into all manner of different industries.
		But away from the money, Agnelli was always there in the background for the racing team and kept faith in Montezemolo when his early attempts to revive the Ferrari F1 programme ended in failure.
	www.grandprix.com /ns/ns07659.html (432 words)

	C4 News - World - Obituary - Gianni Agnelli dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That at least was the verdict of Italian prime minister today on Gianni Agnelli, the flamboyant former chairman of the car maker Fiat, who died this morning in his villa in Turin.
		But the world knew Gianni Agnelli as the embodiment of Italian style; whether squiring glamorous women in his youth, marrying a Neapolitan princess, or selling cars, from Fiats to fantasy driving machines: Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo -- among the brands he added to the family firm.
		Agnelli diversified into aerospace, power and telecommunications -- not always successfully, and his influence in politics was confirmed when he was made a life senator.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/01/week_4/24_fiat.html (275 words)

	Italy Pays Last Respects To Fiat Patriarch Gianni Agnelli
		Agnelli, 81, under whose stewardship the century-old Fiat became an ever more powerful "state within a state", lay at rest in a futuristic gallery housing the family's art collection atop the historic first factory.
		Agnelli's death dominated national media coverage, with newspapers devoting as many pages to it as they did to the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.
		Agnelli "was a happy man, charismatic and intelligent," said Elena Pertossa, 70, a nurse on Fiat's factory floor for 20 years.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2003/01/25/153627.html (623 words)

	NewStandard: 12/14/97
		Agnelli, chairman of the Piaggio motor scooter company, was suffering from a rare form of intestinal cancer.
		Agnelli was anointed last year as potential leader of the empire by his uncle, family patriarch Gianni Agnelli, honorary chairman of Fiat and a senator-for-life.
		Agnelli attended the McCallie Academy, a military school in Chattanooga, Tenn., and graduated from Brown University with a degree in international relations.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-97/12-14-97/a07wn856.htm (480 words)

	motioncars.com AutoBuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Once a flamboyant playboy who became Italy's most dominant businessman, Agnelli was deeply attached to Fiat's core car arm founded by his grandfather and analysts said his death could now help clear the way for a possible sale of the loss-making unit.
		Agnelli, known to Italians simply as "l'avvocato" or the lawyer, had been suffering from prostate cancer.
		Gianni's coffin was due to be taken to Fiat's former Lingotto car factory in Turin before a private funeral on Sunday.
	www.motioncars.com /autobuzz/articles27/fiat_dies.html (323 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Italy pays tribute to motoring tycoon
		The legendary boss of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, was laid to rest in a secluded family cemetery in the hills out side Turin yesterday, after thousands of Italians streamed past his coffin to pay their last respects.
		World news was pushed aside by Agnelli's face, which was splashed over more than 20 pages of each of Italy's daily newspapers, along with reminiscences of the glamorous jet-setting billionaire, who lived surrounded by fast cars, beautiful women and powerful world figures.
		Agnelli was buried beside his son, who committed suicide, and his nephew, who died of cancer six years ago.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,882831,00.html (379 words)

	Asia Times
		The death on January 24 of the president of Fiat, Gianni Agnelli, at 81 leaves a vacuum of power that is difficult to fill.
		The influence of Gianni Agnelli went well beyond the personal fortune of his family and of his industrial group, Fiat.
		The new president of Fiat, Gianni's brother Umberto Agnelli, is a longtime supporter of Berlusconi, and the breaking up of Fiat would force any buyer to go to the prime minister and discuss the deal.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Global_Economy/EB06Dj01.html (1189 words)

	Gianni Agnelli - Ferrari Owners' Club
		Mr Agnelli's death ignited stock market speculation that the family would opt to sell Fiat Auto, the lossmaking automobile division that is the core of the industrial group, rather than seek to refinance the unit.
		Mr Agnelli was considered to be one of the few family members who did not want to sell Fiat Auto.
		Mr Agnelli was chairman of Fiat from 1966 to 1996 and continued as honorary chairman to preside over Fiat and oversee numerous other holdings, from Corriere della Sera, the country's most important newspaper, to Juventus, Italy's most popular football team, to Ferrari's Formula One racing team.
	www.ferrariownersclub.co.uk /happenings/2003/january/agnelli.asp (367 words)

	Fiat Definition / Fiat Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His grandson Gianni AgnelliGiovanni Agnelli, better known as Gianni Agnelli (March 12, 1921 - January 24, 2003), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.
		His mother Margherita, nicknamed Daisy, is a daughter of the late Gianni Agnelli whose family controls 30 percent of Fiat.
		After the death of his cousin Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, son of Umberto Agnelli, in 1997 Elkann's grandfather decided John was the best choice in the family as a long-term heir.
	www.elresearch.com /Fiat (846 words)

	DigitalJournal.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		To ordinary Italians, Agnelli's name conjures up images of immense power and wealth, while his mellow but firm voice still causes legislators to prick up their ears.
		Gianni was raised by his grandfather and tutored by a strict English governess in Turin.
		Agnelli became chairman in 1966 and spent the next years learning the ropes - "I had not the slightest idea how a car was made," he later recounted.
	www.digitaljournal.com /print.htm?id=1034 (925 words)

	[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Gianni Agnelli, Patriarch of Fiat, Di
		ET TURIN - Gianni Agnelli, one of Italy's most powerful businessmen who turned the family car company Fiat into a global industrial giant, has died aged 81, his family said Friday.
		Last year rumors of Agnelli's death periodically pushed up Fiat's share price on expectations that without him Fiat would be more likely to sell its loss-making car unit to U.S. partner General Motors Corp. ``His death means we have a completely different situation.
		ONCE A FLAMBOYANT PLAYBOY Agnelli, whose grandfather founded the company in 1899, became Fiat managing director in 1963 and chairman in 1966, a post he filled for 30 years.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg102152.html (803 words)

	Agnelli Family May Step Aside After Death of Fiat Chairman (washingtonpost.com)
		Gianni Agnelli had designated his grandson John Elkann as the eventual heir to the Fiat leadership, but at 28 he is considered by most industry analysts as too green to take the helm.
		Gianni's and Umberto's father died before they were old enough to run the company; an outsider took over until Gianni came of age in the 1960s.
		Gianni, 13 years his senior, was as known for his jet-setting ways as for his business acumen.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A64327-2004May28.html (692 words)

	[Deathwatch] Gianni Agnelli, Fiat Patriarch, 81
		Fiat Patriarch Gianni Agnelli Dies at 81 By Gianni Montani TURIN (Reuters) - Gianni Agnelli, the stylish Italian industrialist who transformed Fiat into a global powerhouse but whose failing health in recent years mirrored the group's decline, died on Friday aged 81.
		However, some investors are concerned that a member of the Agnelli family might be reluctant to take tough measures to turn around the group which made a loss of nearly a billion euros in the first nine months of 2002 due to losses at its car arm.
		Once a rakish companion to some of the world's most beautiful women, Gianni later turned his mind to business and held the post of chairman of the Turin-based group for three decades until he formally stepped down in 1996.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00976.html (745 words)

	Gianni Agnelli's grandson on Fiat board
		Agnelli was thrust into the limelight after his father, Edoardo, was killed in a plane crash in 1935 and finally took over as company chairman in 1967 after a long apprenticeship.
		Giovanni Alberto, who was the son of Gianni Agnelli's brother Umberto, was taken ill in April and died at the family home outside Turin at the weekend.
		Before Agnelli ascended the Fiat throne, the group was run for some 20 years after World War Two by Vittorio Valletta a captain of industry of legendary toughness and vision who acted as Agnelli's mentor.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19971221/35555333.html (556 words)

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