Three short handwritten cards: here is the set of holographic wills of Gianni Agnelli, the starting point of the legal battle waged by his daughter Margherita over the inheritance. The manuscripts were read in Turin on 24 February 2003, exactly one month after the Lawyer’s death, in the office of the notary Ettore Morone: in recent days the Prosecutor’s Office instructed the Financial Police to visit his registered office. The files are not unpublished and are not being investigated by the magistrates, who are instead interested in looking for the originals of other documents drawn up in subsequent years.
In the first form, drawn up on 12 December 1983, Gianni Agnelli delegated “the usufruct of the Gapi spa shares to my wife Marella Caracciolo” observing that the prerogative was “to be understood as being responsible for the entire inheritance and is to be withdrawn before any other distribution”. With the second, dated 14 January 1985, Agnelli appointed “lawyer Franzo Grande Stevens as executor”. The third, of 20 April 1999, concerned real estate. The villa on the Turin hill, in Strada San Vito Revigliasco, is linked ”for life usufruct to my wife Marella and for bare ownership to my two children Margherita and Edoardo in equal shares”, as well as the properties of Villar Perosa (Turin) A building in Rome, in Via XXIV Maggio 14, is linked “for life usufruct to my wife Marella”, and other buildings on the Turin hill (in Strada San Vito Revigliasco) to Edoardo.
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