Marella Agnelli was named to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 1963.
15 Facts About Marella Agnelli
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Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto was born in Florence, Kingdom of Italy, as a member of the House of Caracciolo of the high Italian nobility and aristocracy.
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Marella Agnelli's mother was Margaret Clarke of Peoria, Illinois, the heiress of a well-known family of whiskey producers; she hung her mother's portraits in roomscapes of wicker furniture and sprigged cotton.
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Marella Agnelli had two brothers: Don Carlo Caracciolo, who inherited their father's titles in 1965 and founded the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and newspaper La Repubblica, and was known as "a prince among newspaper editors", or as "the editor prince", a reference to his aristocratic birth and elegant manner; and Don Nicola Caracciolo, the holder of both titles since 2008, as 10th Prince of Castagneto, 5th Duke of Melito, and hereditary Patrician of Naples.
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Marella Agnelli was married in Osthoffen to Gianni Agnelli, the Fiat tycoon who was widely referred to as "the uncrowned king of Italy", on 19 November 1953; they would remain married until his death on 24 January 2003.
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When she returned to Italy, Marella Agnelli was an occasional editor and photographic contributor to Vogue and Conde Nast, among other magazines.
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An avid gardener, Marella Agnelli authored a number of books on the subject, providing many of the photographs.
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Into the 21st century, she oversaw the opening of the Renzo Piano-designed art gallery Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, built on the roof of the former Lingotto Fiat factory in Turin.
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The Marella Agnelli collection includes Picasso, Renoir, Canaletto, Matisse, and Canova masterpieces, and opened in 2002.
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Marella Agnelli commissioned art from the likes of Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon.
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In 1970, Marella Agnelli founded the National Commission of United World Colleges.
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Marella Agnelli was a member of the International Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, and of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The reserved, patrician tastemaker, and socialite Marella Agnelli was known for her inclusion in Truman Capote's the Swans, a circle of wealthy, stylish, and well-married women friends whose company he adored because, in his words, they "had created themselves, as he had done", and "had stories to tell".
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Days prior to her death, Marella Agnelli's health deteriored, and the cause of death was ruled to be from complications of Parkinson's disease; she had been in a condition of invalidity for several years, and in her last months she was artificially fed.
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Marella Agnelli was portrayed in the American biographical film Infamous by Isabella Rossellini.