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Posted on July 13, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleJohn Elkann and siblings settled a €175 million tax dispute in Italy over their grandmother's inheritance, closing a family legal issue.
MILAN (Reuters) -Stellantis and Ferrari Chairman John Elkann and his siblings Lapo and Ginevra have settled a tax dispute in Italy over the inheritance of their grandmother Marella Caracciolo, a spokesperson for the three brothers said on Sunday.
The case, opened last year, alleged that the three did not pay taxes in the country on assets they inherited after the death in 2019 of Marella Caracciolo, the wife of late Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli.
The spokesperson said John, Lapo and Ginevra, "with the aim of rapidly and definitively closing a painful personal and family vicissitude", had reached a "comprehensive settlement" with the Italian tax agency.
"This settlement was concluded without any admission, not even tacit or partial, of the grounds of the objections initially alleged," the spokesman said, adding discussions were also under way with prosecutors in the city of Turin, Northern Italy, who launched the investigation, although their outcome was not yet defined.
Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, which initially reported the news on Sunday, said the Elkanns would pay at least 175 million euros ($205 million) to settle the tax dispute.
Italy's Revenue Agency did not respond to a request for comment sent by Reuters.
The case stems from a wider inheritance dispute between the Elkanns and their mother Margherita over the estate of Gianni Agnelli, which has divided one of Italy's best known business dynasties.
As part of this case, a judge in Turin last year seized money and assets worth almost 75 million euros from five people, including John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann.
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(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari and Emilio Parodi; Writing by Giulio Piovaccari and Francesca Landini, Editing by Louise Heavens)
The tax dispute involved John Elkann and his siblings regarding inheritance taxes on assets inherited from their grandmother, Marella Caracciolo, after her death in 2019.
The Elkanns agreed to pay at least 175 million euros, equivalent to about $205 million, to settle the tax dispute with the Italian tax authorities.
The settlement was reached without any admission of guilt regarding the tax obligations, aiming to close a painful family issue quickly and definitively.
This tax dispute is part of a larger inheritance conflict between the Elkanns and their mother, Margherita, over the estate of Gianni Agnelli, which has caused divisions within the family.
Before the settlement, a judge in Turin had seized money and assets worth almost 75 million euros from John, Lapo, and Ginevra Elkann as part of the ongoing legal proceedings.
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