Lapo Edovard Elkann was born on 7 October 1977 and is an Italian businessman, philanthropist, and socialite.
38 Facts About Lapo Elkann
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Lapo Elkann is the chairman, founder, and majority shareholder of the Italia Independent Group.
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Lapo Elkann's father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic.
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Lapo Elkann is the brother of John Elkann, the chairman of Fiat and the chairman and CEO of Exor, an investment company controlled by the Agnelli family, which owns Juventus FC Elkann is a grandson of Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli and Marella Agnelli.
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Lapo Elkann is nephew of Don Carlo Caracciolo, founder of Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and owner of the newspaper la Repubblica, the Italian daily general-interest newspaper.
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Lapo Elkann is a stepson of a Russian nobleman, Count Sergei de Pahlen.
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Lapo Elkann has a filmmaker sister, Ginevra Lapo Elkann, and five half-siblings by his mother's second marriage.
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Lapo Elkann is a great-grandnephew of Ettore Ovazza, of the Ovazza banking family, via his grandmother, Carla Ovazza.
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Lapo Elkann performed military service in the Alpini corps as a soldier in the Alpine Brigade "Taurinense".
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In 2004, the elder Lapo Elkann was described as serious and rigorous, in contrast to the expansive and creative younger Lapo Elkann, who was in charge of operational marketing at Fiat, where he went to work at the Mirafiori plant every morning driving a Fiat Panda rather than a Lancia Ypsilon, the model he personally helped to launch.
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Lapo Elkann subsequently continued his work experience, which he started with different roles in Salomon Smith Barney and Danone, and worked as marketing associate for Ferrari and Maserati, where he spent four and a half years at the marketing office.
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Lapo Elkann promoted the group's image by launching different types of gadgets, including sweatshirts worn by himself, with the vintage logo of the car manufacturer, and the launch of the Fiat Grande Punto.
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Lapo Elkann then developed a line of clothing, accessories, and with several collaborations in home and automotive decorations.
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Lapo Elkann was listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, on the AIM segment, on 28 June 2013.
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On 4 July 2007, Lapo Elkann founded the Independent Ideas creative agency together with Alberto Fusignani and Ivanmaria Vele, whose activity was documented for three months in the Idee in progress program of the satellite television channel Fox Life.
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In December 2011, Lapo Elkann launched the Ferrari Tailor Made project together with Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to build a tailor-made Ferrari, personalized on the specific requests of the customer.
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Lapo Elkann started a partnership project with ToyWatch, at the time owned by Gianluca Vacchi, producing a special edition of 1,007 ToyWatch watches combined with Italia Independent sunglasses from the I-Wear series.
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Lapo Elkann is an art lover with a collection of contemporary art that includes original paintings by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, and rising contemporary artists, such as Teddy McDonald and Ian Berry, who made his portrait out of denim.
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Lapo Elkann coordinated marketing for the Fiat Punto, Fiat Grande Punto, and Fiat 500.
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In 2011, Lapo Elkann worked with Gucci's creative director, Frida Giannini, on developing the Gucci Special Edition of the Fiat 500, and consulted with Ferrari, running Ferrari Tailor Made, which enables customers to customize their car.
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In 2007, Lapo Elkann created Italia Independent, a lifestyle and clothing brand featuring Italian products.
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In June 2013, Lapo Elkann listed Italia Independent on the Milan Stock Exchange.
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Lapo Elkann is one of the people I loved the most in my life together with my grandmother Marella.
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Lapo Elkann loved Ferrari cars and he loved all the beautiful things in life.
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Lapo Elkann remains a supporter of the club, got the club's emblem tattooed on his right arm, among his many tattoos, and engages with tifosi on social media.
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Lapo Elkann said he is not interested in politics and that it is not his job.
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Lapo Elkann said his best friend is his brother, John Elkann.
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Lapo Elkann had many flirtings that were widely reported by gossip magazines.
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Lapo Elkann had relationships with actress Martina Stella, socialite Bianca Brandolini d'Adda, businesswoman Goga Ashkenazi, actress Zhu Zhu, and gallerist Carlotta Loverini Botta.
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On 7 October 2021, Lapo Elkann married the Portuguese former rally raid racer Joana Lemos, and they moved to Lisbon.
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Lapo Elkann met Lemos during a 2020 dinner in Portugal.
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On 11 October 2005, Lapo Elkann was hospitalized in serious conditions in the intensive care unit of the Mauriziano Hospital in Turin due to an overdose of a mix of opiates and cocaine after a night in the company of several people including a transgender woman who was the first to call an ambulance.
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In December 2019, Lapo Elkann was involved in a car accident in Tel Aviv, where he was hospitalized; he was there as part of a car trip.
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In October 2005, Lapo Elkann was found unconscious and naked in the apartment of Donato Broco, who was described as a 53-year-old transsexual prostitute known as Patrizia.
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Lapo Elkann was brought to the hospital, where he was in a coma for three days.
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In early December 2014, as reported by Il Giorno, Lapo Elkann was secretly filmed during a party with two brothers who allegedly blackmailed him in exchange for silence.
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Lapo Elkann was accompanied by a transsexual escort who was arrested, and Elkann later confessed that he made up the story.
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On 12 September 2020, Lapo Elkann was stopped twice by the police.