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Title: Spotlight: Ever-obsessive, Lapo Elkann returns with no apologies
Post by: LostInTime on February 23, 2007, 09:29:31 AM
Post by: LostInTime on February 23, 2007, 09:29:31 AM
Link (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/business/wbspot24.php)
In October 2005 all that came to a very public end. He was found near death in a coma from a cocaine and heroin overdose, in the apartment of a 54-year-old transsexual prostitute named Patrizia. It was front-page news in every major newspaper — including the one owned by his family. When he awoke and was released from the hospital, he promptly left the country.
Now, he is back, in what has been a slow and meticulously managed return to Italy after an 18-month exile in America following the incident in Turin that nearly cost him his life and what seemed like an extremely charmed existence.
In October 2005 all that came to a very public end. He was found near death in a coma from a cocaine and heroin overdose, in the apartment of a 54-year-old transsexual prostitute named Patrizia. It was front-page news in every major newspaper — including the one owned by his family. When he awoke and was released from the hospital, he promptly left the country.
Now, he is back, in what has been a slow and meticulously managed return to Italy after an 18-month exile in America following the incident in Turin that nearly cost him his life and what seemed like an extremely charmed existence.