A rep for Elkann slammed the “baseless” lawsuit, claiming London has “stalked” Elkann for years. His maternal grandfather was the longtime head of the Fiat automobile company Giovanni Agnelli. Rome (AFP) Lapo Elkann, one of the heirs of Italy's Agnelli family which founded augo giant Fiat, said Friday he was recovering in Switzerland following a serious car accident in Jerusalem. London refused the menage a trois but Elkann had sex with one of the prostitutes and gave them both cocaine as London, an interior designer, looked on in shock, he alleges. As the grandson of the then Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli and as the great-great-grandson of the Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli on the one hand, as a descendant of the French banker family Elkann and the Italian banker family Ovazza on the other hand: Italian car nobility met one of the most influential Jewish Italian / French New York families. Elkann, the brother of John Elkann, who serves as chairman of the automaker Fiat Chrysler, allegedly made the false claim about being kidnapped … The Agnelli family owns the controlling stake in Fiat, which was founded by Elkann's great-grandfather and was run for decades by the dapper Gianni Agnelli, known in Italy as "L'Avvocato," or … Because Gianni … John Elkann , the son of Gianni and Marella's daughter, Margherita, was expected to take over Fiat after Gianni's death. Travis London says former lover Elkann, an Italian wild child who once faked his own kidnapping to milk his wealthy family for cash, pressured him to participate in group sex with two trans prostitutes, one of whom “aggressively” attempted to bed London by pulling him down and accosting him. Elkann's maternal grandparents were the industrialist Gianni Agnelli and the Italian socialite Marella Agnelli (born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto). His paternal great-grand-uncle was the banker Ettore Ovazza. [32] Elkann married Donna Lavinia Borromeo (born Lavinia Ida Borromeo-Arese on 10 March 1977 in Milan, Italy) a member of the prominent Italian aristocratic family the House of Borromeo. He was chosen as successor by his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, who was the principal shareholder of Fiat. [41], In June 2018, he invited Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Xavier Niel and other global tech leaders to the SEI Torino Forum for the international launch of the new School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Turin,[42] the initiative supported by the Agnelli Foundation helping university level students to start new businesses. [19], He is also Chairman of Ferrari,[20] Vice Chairman of GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.a.[21] [49], In January 2020 he participated in the 16th edition of the Cape2Rio aboard Soldini's VOR70 Maserati, sailing 3.600 miles from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, he was the chosen heir of his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, and chairs and controls the automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The ex-boyfriend of Fiat scion Lapo Elkann claims he was sexually assaulted and left with “severe emotional distress” following a cocaine-fueled transgender orgy that spun out of control. [27] In July 2020, John and FCA's CEO Mike Manley announced that the name of the combined company will be Stellantis. He has a brother, Lapo, and a sister, Ginevra, as well as five half-siblings from his mother's second marriage, as Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen, to Serge de Pahlen. In 1997, he became the chosen heir of his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, following the death of Gianni's nephew Giovanni Alberto Agnelli and in 2008 became the head of IFIL. In 1899, Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945) and a group of investors founded the company Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino (FIAT). 9: His wife Lavinia gave birth to their third child, a daughter, Vita Talita Elkann on January 23rd, 2012. Suddenly, two “transsexual” prostitutes and their madame showed up, London charges in legal papers. That’s when the second prostitute apparently “aggressively endeavored” to force London to have sex, he charges. John Philip Jacob Elkann (born 1 April 1976) is an Italian American industrialist. He will defend against it strongly,” spokeswoman Marcia Horowitz said. His parents divorced in 1981 and both have remarried. ROME — Lapo Elkann, one of the heirs of Italy’s Agnelli family which founded auto giant Fiat, said Friday he was recovering in Switzerland following a serious car accident in Jerusalem. He is most well known for being the chairman of Fiat … They married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in the Cappella Bianca on Isola Madre, one of the Borromean Islands of Lake Maggiore. Though his day job is chairman of Fiat Chrysler (he was appointed to the board when he was 22), as well as chairman of Ferrari, Elkann has always had a keen interest in the press. In February 2011, he was appointed chairman and CEO of EXOR. [28][29], In 2019, under Elkann's management, Exor purchased the controlling stake in GEDI Gruppo Editoriale from CIR Group for $113 million. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Your California Privacy Rights In February 2018, he featured as one of the protagonists on the podcast series by Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder) Masters of Scale. Edoardo Agnelli (1954-2000), named after grandfather, only son of Gianni; Margherita Agnelli (1955-), only daughter of Gianni, married first to Alain Elkann, but now to Count Sergei de Pahlen, by whom she has further issue 1 son and 4 daughters (not listed). [2] Elkann's maternal grandparents were the industrialist Gianni Agnelli and the Italian socialite Marella Agnelli (born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto). Do Not Sell My Personal Information. [47], Following this crossing, in 2013 he participated in the Transpac Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu where they ranked second, as well as in the Cape2Rio, from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro, where they won and set the new speed record of the regatta. He chairs the automaker Stellantis and is the chairman and CEO of Exor, the holding company controlled by the Agnelli family, which also owns PartnerRe and holds a controlling stake in Ferrari, CNH Industrial and Juventus F.C. Jewish Telegraph Agency: "Noted Italian writer appeals for Israel", "Edoardo Agnelli b. His paternal great-grand-uncle was the banker Ettore Ovazza. [18] Since Elkann's appointment, the value of the company's assets has grown and multiplied nine times in ten years. [15], After the deaths of his grandfather Gianni Agnelli in 2003, and his great-uncle Umberto Agnelli in 2004, Elkann became vice chairman of Fiat and vice chairman of Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz (now Giovanni Agnelli B.V.), the family partnership controlling EXOR. [9][10] He was appointed to the Fiat board at the age of 21. John Elkann is an Italian-American industrialist and the current Chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. Elkann was picked for the Fiat board at age 21 by his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, the dapper industrialist who built the company into a global powerhouse. Exor, led by Agnelli scion John Elkann -- who’s also chairman of Fiat and Ferrari -- bought PartnerRe in 2016 for $6.72 billion, it said in the statement. John Elkann (New York, 1976) is the heir to the fourth generation of the Agnelli family: he has been President and CEO of Exor since 2011 and is also the President of Fiat Chrysler. [44], In July 2020 he took part in the institutional presentation of the full-electric New 500 to the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella and Giuseppe Conte, the Italian Prime Minister. Elkann, 41, then tried to silence him over the botched birthday gift in Milan in July 2018, according to London’s $10 million Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit. But from that low point, Elkann, 43, is now trying to merge Fiat Chrysler (FCA) with French rival Renault to form the world’s third largest carmaker and tackle new challenges facing the industry. The son of Agnelli's daughter Margherita and the writer Alain Elkann, John Elkann was born in New York and had a cosmopolitan childhood in Britain, Brazil and France. Elkann later apologized, begging London to keep quiet to avoid a scandal after the death of former Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. He left General Electric two years later. Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, 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. Elkann once denied his longtime relationship with London, belittling him as a stalker after London tweeted about their romance in 2014. [12] He moved back to Turin to be closer to his ageing grandfather, as well as be closer to the family business.[13]. 96,576, This story has been shared 77,962 times. Elkann was named in his stead to Fiat… Updated December 20, 2019, 7:08 AM Rome (AFP) - Lapo Elkann, one of the heirs of Italy's Agnelli family which founded auto giant Fiat, said … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. [48], In January 2015, he took part with Giovanni Soldini in the Maserati team, in the Rorc Caribbean 600 Race, a regatta that has been held since February throughout the Caribbean. 77,962, © 2021 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved The former beau says he and Elkann had just had unprotected sex when his still-naked lover made a phone call in Portuguese, a language London doesn’t speak. [40], He is also a regular contributor to the Google Camp, which every year gathers tech entrepreneurs, investors, representatives of institutions and pop stars in Sciacca, Agrigento and other places around Sicily. His younger half-siblings are: Maria (born 1983), Pierre (born 1986), twins Sophie and Anna (born 1988) and Tatiana (born 1990). [35], They have three children. [6] As a result of his international upbringing, he is fluent in four languages. As the grandson of Gianni Agnelli, The legendary leader of Fiat, Lapo Elkann inherited the weight of Italy’s greatest modern aristocracy—one … Gov. The grandson of Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli was arrested in... Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Privacy Notice [43], In April 2019, along with CERN's Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and the Italian architect Renzo Piano, he participated in a media event to unveil Science Gateway, a new scientific education and outreach centre of CERN, which aims to share knowledge and technology with society. In 2003, he joined IFIL (now Exor)[14] and worked on the turnaround of Fiat Group. Sitemap [26], In 2019, Elkann announced he will be trying to merge Fiat Chrysler (FCA) with Peugeot S.A. (Groupe PSA), with the goal of forming the world's 4th largest OEM by volume and 3rd largest by revenues. [46], A yachtsman, in March 2012 John Elkann took part as owner in the Miami-New York crossing on the Maserati monohull of Giovanni Soldini's team, with the aim of covering 947 miles and setting a new record in the monohull category. The Milan assault was the “latest in a series of abusive, manipulative, demeaning, and harmful episodes initiated by [Elkann] during the course of an abusive multi-year courtship,” London alleges. He is the first son of Alain Elkann, a New York-born journalist and writer of French Jewish and Italian Jewish background, and his then wife Italian Margherita Agnelli. [33][34] She is the daughter of Don Carlo Ferdinando Borromeo, Count of Arona (born in 1935), the son of Vitaliano Borromeo, 2nd Prince of Angera. “London has filed this lawsuit in an effort to embarrass Lapo with salacious made-up details. [36][37][38][39], Since 2009, has been attending the annual "media and tech conference" organized in July every year by Allen & Co at Sun Valley, Idaho. Born in New York City, John Elkann holds both Italian and American citizenship. Business Week: Who'll Take Over from the Patriarchs? Can big tech float NYC's struggling leasing market? He is the chairman and CEO of Exor, the holding company controlled by the Agnelli fam 2003 Global Influentias: With The Grace Of Grandpa, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Elkann&oldid=1009247565, Pages with login required references or sources, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 26. Elkann, whose grandfather Gianni Agnelli was once worth an estimated $3.1 billion, quickly began a high-pressure campaign to secure London’s silence, even paying the prostitutes to take down their social media profiles, London claims. London, 30, says he eventually fled Elkann’s home. MotoGP, Lapo Elkann tries again: after Yamaha with Rossi, now Bastianini The scion of the Agnelli family and his Italia Independent brand have signed a … [7], While pursuing a degree in engineering, Elkann gained work experience through several internships: headlight plant in Birmingham, England (1996), production line in Tychy, Poland (1997), car dealership in Lille, France (1998) and also at GE's CIG (corporate initiatives group) where he worked on a thesis on e-auctions (1999). Thanks for contacting us. Mr. Elkann, the 44-year-old chairman of both Fiat Chrysler and Agnelli family holding company Exor NV, played a leading role in negotiating both pacts, according to people familiar with the matter. [22], He is Chairman of the Agnelli Foundation, a philanthropic institution supporting education. His parents divorced in 1981 and both have remarried. [11] In 2000, after graduating in Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, he joined General Electric's Corporate Audit program. Agnelli gave John Elkann his Fiat voting rights, according to The Times of London, and bequeathed to Lapo most of his custom-made suits. [17] In 2010, he became chairman of Fiat S.p.A. (now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), succeeding Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, and chairman of the Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz, succeeding Gianluigi Gabetti [it]. June 1, 2019 | 6:05pm | Updated June 1, 2019 | 10:03pm. He is nephew of Don Carlo Caracciolo, founder of Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso - owner of the newspaper la Repubblica, the Italian daily general-interest newspaper. In July 2018 he was appointed chairman of Ferrari after Sergio Marchionne left due to health issues. 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[3][4], Elkann attended primary school in the United Kingdom and Brazil,[5] before his family moved to Paris, where he obtained a baccalauréat scientifique at the State School Lycée Victor-Duruy in 1994. John Elkann, chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and scion of the Agnelli family that founded the Italian side of the car maker, is holding on to a key bastion of support in the wake of busted merger talks with Renault SA: his own relatives. In June 2017, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian newspaper La Stampa, which was acquired by the Agnelli family in 1926, he organized "The Future of Newspapers",[25] an international conference attended by Jeff Bezos (The Washington Post), Lionel Barber (The Financial Times), Tsuneo Kita (Nikkei), Jessica Lessin (The Information), Gary Liu (South China Morning Post Publishers), John Micklethwait (Bloomberg News), Zanny Minton Beddoes (The Economist), Mark Thompson (The New York Times), Robert Thomson (NewsCorp) and others. John Elkann, Giovanni Soldini and the Maserati Multi V70 at the finish line of the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2020. He claims Elkann’s denial of their affair created a backlash that cost him his culinary career. [45], Starting from July 2020, he supported the launch and expansion of the Arcipelago Educativo project, co-designed and promoted by Fondazione Agnelli, Exor, and Save the Children to fight the risk of dropping out of students, due to the lockdown caused by COVID-19. [31], Elkann was baptized and raised Catholic. We've received your submission. Born in New York City, John Elkann holds both Italian and American citizenship. Elkann is a grandson of Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli and Marella Agnelli. [50], In October 2020, once again aboard with Soldini, he conquered the first position at the 41stedition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race with the Maserati Multi 70.[51]. Ex-boyfriend of Fiat scion says he was assaulted during orgy Elkann was instrumental in the appointment of FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne, in May 2004. 109,459, This story has been shared 96,576 times. This story has been shared 109,459 times. [16] In 2008, Elkann replaced 83-year-old Gianluigi Gabetti as the head of IFIL, which manages a portfolio worth eight billion euros. London has “ample evidence of abuse from pictures, texts, emails and other information,” his lawyer, Christopher Marston, told The Post. Her three children by Elkann are Fiat/Agnelli heirs; those by her second marriage are not. Your California Privacy Rights Andrew Cuomo’s history with women: Wives, girlfriends, accusers, 'Gorilla Glue girl' Tessica Brown finds breast lumps before plastic surgery, Former Giants, Notre Dame player found dead at age 29, Nick Jonas' 8 ex-girlfriends he dated before marrying Priyanka Chopra, Vanessa Bryant slams Evan Rachel Wood for calling Kobe a 'rapist' after his death. This story has been shared 109,459 times. [8] In December 1997 Elkann was selected as the heir of his grandfather Gianni Agnell in place of Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, the son of Gianni's younger brother, Umberto, who had died at the age of 33. Elkann is also a stepson of Russian nobleman Count Sergei de Pahlen. He is the first son of Alain Elkann, a New York-born journalist and writer of French Jewish and Italian Jewish background,[1] and his then wife Italian Margherita Agnelli.
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