I tried hard to work out why the Financial Times thought that Lapo Elkann was deserving of a Lunch with the FT, except for his Agnelli family connections, of course.
With all due respect to Mr. Elkann, he does not appear to have done very much with his life, so far, which merits him benefiting from the coveted Lunch with the Financial Times.
If the Financial Times Editor has run out of candidates, he should call me and I will give you a list of candidates more worthy of the Financial Times´s largesse.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Lapo Elkann has already had a lunch with the FT. On our first outing we ate escalope and cherry tomatoes and dissected the problems of Italy, youth and business.
But the interview went unprinted. Something went wrong between plate and print. There were drug overdoses, demons and darkness. Elkann almost died.
He is one of the Agnelli family, founders of the Fiat group, and wildly famous in Italy where he is a cross between a royal prince and a Kennedy. His grandfather Gianni Agnelli was the man who made Fiat great. In the enduring soap opera of the family members’ lives, Elkann had a bleak cocaine episode in Turin not long after our first lunch and then went into rehab in Arizona.
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