Edoardo Agnelli

Giuseppe Puppo, a journalist, an Italian journalist and writer, published a book about Angelli's death in 2009, using interviews and unpublished testimonies. Puppo regards some of the points as inconsistencies and oddities: the absence of the bodyguards of Edoardo Agnelli; the interval of two hours between leaving home and arriving on the Fossano viaduct; the cameras of Edoardo Agnelli, whose images have never been released; the telephone traffic on the two phones; the total absence of witnesses along a road section which recorded at least eight cars per minute at that time; the lack of fingerprints on the car; the hurried burial without a proper autopsy.

In 15 November 2000, 46-year-old Agnelli's body was found near Turin, on a river bed beneath a motorway viaduct on which his car was found. The viaduct is known as the bridge of suicides. According to a report by Marco Ellena, the doctor from the public health office of nearby city Cuneo, who examined Edoardo's body, "He died because of deadly wounds after having fallen 80 meters". The report also stated that he was alive when his body impacted with the ground. His head, face and chest were damaged due to the fall and an autopsy detected some internal injuries which seemed to prove the suicide theory. Nothing was unusual in his death scene and police did not find anything in his car apart from phones, cigarettes, a walking stick, an address book and a bottle of water. His conversion to Islam and the therefore fast process of his funeral started some rumors about his suicide. Finally, Riccardo Bausone, the public prosecutor who was working on Edoardo's case, closed the death case and concluded that Agnelli's death was a suicide case.

As an adult, Agnelli claimed to be the heir apparent to the Fiat empire, but his father, who had already been unhappy with Edoardo's conversion to Islam, ensured that he would not inherit it. The only official position which the younger Agnelli held in the family businesses was as a director of Juventus football club, in which capacity he was present at the Heysel disaster. In 1990, he was accused for heroin possession but the charges were later dropped.

Edoardo Agnelli (9 June 1954 – 15 November 2000) was the eldest child and only son of Marella Agnelli (born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto) and Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat. He converted to Islam when he was living in New York City, and changed his name to "Mahdi". In mid-November 2000, he was found dead under mysterious circumstances under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin.

Agnelli was born in New York City to Italian parents (his maternal grandmother was American). His mother, Marella Agnelli, and his father, Gianni Agnelli, married in 1953. Edoardo Agnelli had one sister, Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen. He had studied at Atlantic College, and he read modern literature and oriental philosophy at Princeton University.