Agnelli family
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Primary Evidence
"The cunning banker, who spoke an Italian like a pizza maker, had already helped the people from Turin diversify their capital beyond the automotive industry, and take significant stakes in the capital of L'Oréal and Air liquide. So, investing a $ 100 million ticket in Albatros Investissement, one of the holdings through which Vincent Bolloré kept control of his group-the famous "Breton pulleys" invented by the financier-should not have been a bad investment. "And the Agnelli family is so rich...," as Bernheim used to say, with all his ambiguity towards the powers of money."
"When businessman François Pinault bought Palazzo Grassi in 2005, he approached Antoine Bernheim to ask him to intercede with Cardinal Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, because he had set his sights on the tip of the Customs House. Two years after taking over the Grassi Palace from the Agnelli family, the Breton industrialist obtained this legendary place in Venice, also coveted by the Guggenheim Foundation."