The Rimini court will deal with one of the numerous judicial strands that have developed around Gianni Agnelli's legacy: the defamation complaint presented by the Milanese lawyer Luigi Emanuele Gamna against Margherita Agnelli, daughter of the former president of Fiat.
Gamna's opposition to the request to dismiss the proceedings forwarded by the prosecutor's office will be discussed in May in front of a judge in the Romagna city.
This is what we learn in Turin in circles linked to the judicial investigation into the assets of Marella Caracciolo, widow of Gianni Agnelli and mother of Margherita.
Gamna was one of the two lawyers who, on Margherita's behalf, followed the negotiation which in 2004 led the woman to sign an agreement with her mother regarding her paternal inheritance.
The lawyer felt defamed for the reconstruction of the story carried out in the book 'Agnelli knives' by the journalist Gigi Moncalvo, where statements by Margherita Agnelli appear.
Margherita Agnelli "expressed satisfaction" with the agreement reached in 2004 which "allowed her to acquire a significant part" of her father's assets, but then she "retraced her steps" and is now trying to take possession of Dicembre, "the family safe which allows her to have control of the entire Group".
This is what Gamna recalls in the defamation complaint that he filed against the woman last year and which in May will be discussed before a investigating judge in Rimini (who must decide whether or not to close the case).
Margherita, years later, reneged on the 2004 agreement and took a series of legal initiatives claiming to be the victim of a scam.
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