11 Facts About Edoardo Agnelli

Edoardo Agnelli converted to Islam when he was living in New York City, and changed his name to Mahdi.

Edoardo Agnelli was born in New York City to Italian parents; his maternal grandmother was American.

Edoardo Agnelli had studied at the Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio in Turin, at Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, and he read modern literature in Latin and Eastern philosophy at Princeton University.

Edoardo Agnelli was known by his friends in New York as "Crazy Eddy" due to his restless adolescence and wild behavior.

The only official position that the younger Edoardo Agnelli held in the family businesses was as a director of Juventus FC In doing so, he continued the tradition of the Fiat-owner family dating back to the 1920s.

Edoardo Agnelli converted to Sunni Islam in an Islamic centre in New York where he was named Hisham Aziz.

Edoardo Agnelli then met Ali Khamenei in Teheran and was reported to have converted to Shia Islam.

On 15 November 2000,46-year-old Edoardo Agnelli's body was found near Turin, on a river bed beneath a motorway viaduct on which his car was found.

Riccardo Bausone, the public prosecutor who was working on the case, closed the investigation and concluded that Edoardo Agnelli's death was a suicide.

Edoardo Agnelli's father joined police at the scene; he was reported to not have cried once he learned about Agnelli's death but was devastated.

Edoardo Agnelli was buried next to his cousin, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, in his family vault in the cemetery perched above the grounds of the Agnelli family villa at Villar Perosa.