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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.