Italian industrialist Giovanni Agnelli (born 1920) was a leading capitalist in Italy, controlling a group of enterprises that employed 360,000 workers and had annual sales of over $15 billion. Giovanni Agnelli reigned for thirty years as one of the...

It's been a bad year for Giovanni Agnelli, the ailing king of Italian industry. This spring the Rome press was writing eulogies for the Fiat founder after he failed to appear in public for several weeks. Worse, false news of his death sent...

Byline: Luca Ciferri Even in his final hours, Giovanni Agnelli, 81, was trying to influence his family's hold on Fiat. The honorary chairman of the Fiat group died Friday, Jan. 24, after a battle with prostate cancer, hours before a family...