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2 unusual facts about Agnelli


Jenő Károly

Jenő Károly (15 January 1886 – 28 July 1926) was a Hungarian footballer and later manager born in Budapest, outside of his homeland he is particularly noted for being the first manager of Agnelli-era Juventus.

Piaggio

Vespa thrived, until 1992, when Giovanni Alberto Agnelli became CEO, but Agnelli was already suffering from cancer and died in 1997.


Elkann

Ginevra Elkann (born 1979), an apprentice film director, granddaughter of Gianni Agnelli

John Elkann (born 1976), an Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, heir to the automaker Fiat

Francesco De Leo

Before joining Wind, Francesco De Leo served as an Executive Director at IFIL-Exor, the financial holding company controlled by the Agnelli family which owns among others FIAT Group, Worms, Cushman & Wakefield, and Juventus.

Giovanni Agnelli

The son of Edoardo Agnelli and Aniceta Frisetti, he was born in Villar Perosa, a small town near Pinerolo, Piedmont, still the main home and burial place of the Agnelli family.

John Frieda

He now lives with Frances Avery Agnelli née Howe (1965), an Anglo-American architect and the widow of Fiat heir, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (son of the Italian entrepreneur and politician, Umberto Agnelli).

Nervus Rex

Agnelli had been working as a rock critic for The Village Voice and Creem magazine under the pen name Trixie A. Balm.

She went on to play with the Dave Rave Conspiracy in the U.S. and Canada as well as the duo Agnelli & Rave, and was co-writer and featured vocalist on "Kiss of Fire," an album released in the U.S. and Japan, by Brave Combo.

After the band's demise, Agnelli joined the Washington Squares, a new generation beat folkgroup who released two LP's and earned a Grammy nomination.


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