Lapo Eduard Elkann (born 7 October 1977) is an Italian entrepreneur and grandson of Gianni Agnelli, the former controlling CEO and controlling shareholder of Fiat Automobiles.
Elkann, who was a Fiat marketing manager and manager of brand promotion at Group Fiat, is currently president of LA Holding, Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
In October 2006, Mark Seal wrote for Vanity Fair that
Elkann "had been found naked and unconscious in the apartment of Donato Broco, a 53-year-old transsexual prostitute known as Patrizia."[12] He was brought to the hospital, where he was in a coma for three days. Police investigated him at the time for cocaine use and soliciting prostitution.[12]
On November 27, 2016, while in New York,
Elkann was arrested for making a false police report claiming that he had been unlawfully imprisoned.[13] He had previously contacted his family, stating that he would "be harmed" if they did not pay a $10,000 ransom. He was accompanied by an escort (also this time the escort was a transsexual), who was also arrested.[14][15][13] Charges against the escort were later dropped.[16]
