Stefano Casiraghi
| Stefano Casiraghi | |
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Stefano Casiraghi (in the middle)
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| Born |
8 September 1960 Como, Italy |
| Died | 3 October 1990 (aged 30) Princess Grace Hospital Centre, Monaco |
| Occupation | Chairman, Cogefar France Founder/Majority shareholder, Engeco World Offshore Champion |
| Known for | Son-in-law of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco |
| Spouse(s) |
Princess Caroline of Monaco (m. 1983–90; his death) |
| Children |
Andrea Casiraghi Charlotte Casiraghi Pierre Casiraghi |
| Parent(s) | Giancarlo Casiraghi Fernanda Biffi |
Stefano Casiraghi (8 September 1960 – 3 October 1990) was an Italian socialite and businessperson. He was the son of Giancarlo Casiraghi and Fernanda Biffi, and became the second husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
The son of Giancarlo Casiraghi (d. 1998), a businessperson and Fernanda (née Biffi), Stefano Casiraghi grew up in the Casiraghi family's estate, Villa Cigogne, in Fino Mornasco. He had two brothers, Marco and Daniele (died in 2016), and one sister, Rosalba. He also developed an early passion for the speedboat races on Lake Como. He followed the course of his brothers by enrolling at Milan's Bocconi University. However, his eagerness to work in business was stronger than his wish to have a degree, or his skills to obtain one, and he left the university after only two years of study, to begin to work for his father and his oldest brother, Marco.
He was involved in the real estate and retail export enterprises of the family business that his father had built up. His obituary in The New York Times described him as a financier and said, at his death, Casiraghi was Chairman of "Cogefar France" (a construction subsidiary of Fiat). The same source said he had a majority interest in Engeco, a Monaco-based construction company which he founded in 1984. At the time of his first child's birth, it was said that he was the director of the Christian Dior boutique in Monte Carlo.
A self-styled "throttle man," Casiraghi participated in eighty offshore races during his lifetime. Over a 20-year career, he won a dozen of those competitions and, at the time of his death, was the world champion of offshore speedboat racing, including the World Championship held off the coast of Atlantic City in 1989. Casiraghi had set the record (since broken) for 172 mph on Lake Como in 1984. It is a very dangerous sport, but as Casiraghi once said, "There are more dangerous sports and I believe one should live life to the fullest."
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