Death
In 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 abandoned. The viaduct is known as the bridge of suicides. The death was considered by Italian investigators to have been suicide.
A 2001 Iranian documentary film claimed, that Agnelli was the victim of a Zionist plot to prevent a Muslim becoming head of Fiat, in spite of the fact that he was not an heir to Fiat. In the Italian press the documentary was commentated as "building up an Urban Legend by Iranian authorities". In 2003 it was circulated by FARS, a press agency linked to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to Corriere della Sera, the story is also enshrined at the Museum of Martyrs of Islam at Imam Sadiq University, Iran, which contains a portrait-shrine dedicated to Agnelli.
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