Overview

• Lawyers for Margherita Agnelli produced a copy of a 1998 holographic will in Turin, stating roughly 25% of the family vehicle Dicembre was left to her brother Edoardo.
• The document, seized earlier by the Guardia di Finanza during a criminal probe, was deemed irrelevant for penal purposes but is now before the civil court handling the family inheritance case.
• Attorneys for John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann argue the will has no effect because Edoardo died in 2000 before Gianni’s death in 2003, citing succession rules, a 2004 settlement and limitation periods.
• Margherita’s legal team says the 1998 text revoked the 1996 ‘letter from Monaco’ and, absent Edoardo’s descendants, would shift rights to Edoardo’s legal heirs, challenging Dicembre’s current ownership.
• Dicembre underpins control of Exor and related assets, so any validation of the will’s authenticity and legal force could carry material consequences for governance and equity stakes.