Personal Life
He first married heiress Donna Antonella Bechi Piaggio in 1959, with whom he had three sons. The first, twin boys, died shortly after birth.
The third son Giovanni Alberto Agnelli was groomed to succeed at Fiat but died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1997. Giovanni was survived by his wife Avery Agnelli née Howe and a daughter Virginia Asia Agnelli.
Umberto and Antonella later divorced, and Umberto married Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto in 1974, who is the first cousin of his sister in law Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, both members of an old Neapolitan noble family, that has the titles of nobility of Prince of Castagneto and Duke of Melito, among others. They had two children, a son named Andrea born in 1975, and a daughter Anna born in 1977. Andrea then went on to his father's footsteps by becoming chairman of Juventus in 2010.
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