Unlike the other members of the family, he could not participate in industrial and financial activities due to a serious illness.
[6] Agnelli died at age 35 in a Swiss clinic in Prangins at Lake Geneva, where he had been treated for a long time.
[7] According to the poet Marta Vio, who was his companion for ten years, he had long suffered from schizophrenia.
They met in 1946 on the beach of Forte dei Marmi, the holiday resort of the Agnelli family.
[9] According to a family member, Giorgio died in the clinic as a result of sleep therapy, a common treatment for schizophrenia in the 1960s before the development of pharmaceutical cures.