Her paternal grandfather,
Giovanni Agnelli, was the founder of
Fiat S.p.A. Her maternal grandfather was Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince of San Faustino.
In 1935, when Agnelli was fifteen years old, her father died in an airplane crash. Her mother died in a car accident in 1945.[2] In November 1968, Agnelli went to the break-away state of
Biafra in Nigeria to give money to secessionist leader
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu on behalf of her family.[6]
During her marriage, Agnelli had an affair with Italian actor Giovanni Nuvoletti, Count Nuvoletti Perdomini, whom she had met in
Sestriere when she was twelve years old.[10] She ran off with Nuvoletti and the two were eventually arrested,[11] as adultery was illegal in Italy at the time.[12][13] She had to sign a legal document renouncing her relationship with Nuvoletti in return for an annuity. She continued on with the affair, which angered her brother
Gianni Agnelli.[14]
Once divorce was legalized in Italy, Agnelli married Nuvoletti in 1974 in a civil ceremony and moved into the Villa Papadopoli.[15] After the death of her first husband,[16] she and Nuvoletti had a Catholic wedding ceremony at her villa's chapel in 1989.[2][17]
Later life and death
Agnelli published several cook books.[18] Nuvoletti died in 2008.[2][19]
Agnelli died on 19 July 2016 at the hospital dell'Angelo di Mestre.[20][21][22] She had a Catholic funeral at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmello in
Mestre.[7] Her inheritance was worth €100 million.[23]
^"Alleged Caritas Support for Nigerian Rebels". Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa. Lagos: BBC Monitoring. 27 November 1968. p. 45. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via Google Books.
^Furstenberg, Diane von (28 October 2014).
The Woman I Wanted to Be (illustrated ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp.
44, 57, 60, 63.
ISBN978-1-4516-5157-7. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via Google Books.