Congrats! (With a cav-Fiat)
SORRY, ladies — Lapo Elkann is off the market. And what a catch he is!
Italian gossip site Whoopsee claims that the Fiat heir — who has variously faked his own kidnapping while on a bender with a transgender escort, fallen into a coma after overdosing on hard drugs (again with a transgender escort), and left Uma Thurman feeling “violated” after kissing her on the lips without her consent onstage at a gala — has tied the knot with Portuguese car racer Joana Lemos.
The pair are said to have said “I do” on Oct. 7, Elkann’s 44th birthday, in Portugal in a civil ceremony.
According to Italian reports, the couple met during the pandemic and did charity work together to help out those who were struggling.
Perhaps marriage will help to settle down Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli’s great-grandson.
In 2005, Elkann went into a coma at a trans sex worker’s apartment in Italy after overdosing on a cocktail of cocaine and heroin.
Then. in 2016, after running up a tab doing drugs with a different escort in a Manhattan housing project, he called a family member and pretended he had been kidnapped in order to get ransom money to pay off his drug bill.
Also in 2016, he kissed Thurman unexpectedly and non-consensually at amfAR’s Cinema Against AIDS gala in Cannes, France, after winning an item in an auction. Her rep said at the time that the “Pulp Fiction” star felt “violated.”
Elkann and Lemos are now working together at the LAPS Foundation. Elkann is the president of the organization, which seeks to help underserved kids get a quality education. Lemos, according to the charity’s Web site, is vice president.
Lemos raced motorcycles and cars before going on to plan sporting events. She has two children from a previous marriage.
This is Elkann’s first marriage (for some reason).