Gianluigi Gabetti

[7] During the autumn of 1971 in New York City, Gabetti met Gianni Agnelli as he was completing the restructuring of the Olivetti Corporation of America, of which he had held the reins for six years.

Agnelli was impressed by Gabetti and offered him to return to Italy as general manager of IFI, the family's financial holding company.

[8] Gabetti accepted and a year later he was managing director, a position that launched the long partnership with Fiat S.p.A.,[9] of which he would also be vice-chairman from November 1993 to June 1999.

[11] His expertise in the financial and industrial fields, as well as his ethical and social commitment, which was aimed at improving the country's living and working conditions, made it possible for him to be appointed Knight of the Order of Merit for Labour in 1982.

[12][13] Along with Enrico Cuccia, Gabetti concluded the December 1976 agreement that led the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment (Lafico) to subscribe to a capital increase in Fiat.

[14] After he retired for having reached the age limit, he returned to Turin in 1999 to help the now ill Agnelli, and dealt with the logistics relating to the treatments to be carried out in the country and abroad.

[20][21] In 2007, after the deaths of the Agnelli brothers, Gabetti worked along with Franzo Grande Stevens to ensure the succession of power to Elkann.

"[25] Over the years, Gabetti held the roles of chairman of Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz, which later became Giovanni Agnelli B.V., director of Exor, director of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation [it], director of Banca del Piemonte [it], chairman of Lingotto Musica, member of the executive committee for relations between Italy and the United States, member of the life trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York,[26] board member of Deutsche Bank, and councilor of the Centro Studi Piemontesi [it].

It took ten years to recover and return to the top Italians, not yet Europeans: now the club makes over €300 million, but in the meantime Real, Bayern, and the others have taken off.

[40] Several observers allege that Calciopoli and its aftermath were a dispute within Juventus and between the club's owners that came after the deaths of the Agnelli brothers,[41] including Gabetti and Franzo Grande Stevens who favoured Elkann as chairman, and wanted to get rid of Luciano Moggi, Antonio Giraudo,[42][43] and Roberto Bettega, whose shares in the club increased.

[40] In March 1961, Gabetti married Bettina Sichel (1929–2008), an American who was already the mother of a daughter, Ann Tuteur, from a previous marriage.

Two children were born from their marriage: Alessandro, married to Diomira Mazzolini, daughter of the RAI journalist Salvo Mazzolini; and Cristina, a television journalist who worked for Mediaset on the satirical news program Striscia la Notizia and married to the sailor Paolo Martinoni.

[54][55][56] In 2009, Gabetti, along with the then IFIL managing director Virgilio Marrone, was involved in the allegations against Franzo Grande Stevens of market manipulation in the equity swap of IFI–IFIL that became Exor.

[60][61] On 21 December 2010, along with Grande Stevens and Marrone, Gabetti was acquitted of the charge of information rigging (Italian: aggiotaggio informativo), or microcap stock fraud.