Giorgio Agnelli (12 May 1929, in

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– 11 May 1965, in

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) was a member of the

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. He was the second son of

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(born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and of the industrialist

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. His brother,

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, was the head of

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until 1996. He studied at

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in the United States. Unlike the other members of the family, he could not participate in industrial and financial activities due to a serious illness. He died at age 35 in a

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clinic at

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, where he had been treated for a long time. According to the poetess Marta Vio, who was his companion for ten years, Giorgio had long suffered from

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. They met in 1946 on the beach of

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, the holiday resort of the Agnelli family.M. Ripa di Meana e G. Mecucci, ''Virginia Agnelli'', p. 223

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