Lapo Elkann
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Lapo Elkann (October 2, 1978) is a New York-born Italian industrialist, former marketing manager and heir to the automaker Fiat. He is the brother of John Elkann, who is widely expected to become the head of the Fiat group. Lapo Elkann was engaged to the Italian show-girl Martina Stella.
Lauded in fashion circles for inheriting his grandfather's sense of style, Elkann has become famous for wearing (and thus promoting) Fiat-branded sweaters at any occasion, even with haute couture outfits in recent years.
He notoriously survived a nearly fatal drug overdose that put him in a coma on October 10, 2005 in Turin, Italy, while in the company of a group of older transsexuals.[1] Some media outlets speculated that the cocaine Elkann used that night may have been of lower purity, or may have been laced with heroin.
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- ^ Marco Imarisio. Il racconto: «Lapo è un bravo ragazzo». Corriere della Sera. Retrieved on September 4, 2006.
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