Stefano Casiraghi

Stefano Casiraghi (8 September 1960 – 3 October 1990) was an Italian offshore powerboat racer, socialite, and businessman. He was the second husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco; he died during a racing accident defending his 1990 Class 1 World Powerboat Championship title. Early life The son of Giancarlo Casiraghi (1925–1998), a wealthy businessman, and Fernanda Biffi (b. 1926), Stefano Casiraghi grew up in the Casiraghi family's estate, Villa Cigogne, in Fino Mornasco. He had two brothers, Marco and Daniele (1956–2016), and one sister, Rosalba. He also developed an early passion for the speedboat races on Lake Como. He followed in the footsteps of his brothers by enrolling at Milan's Bocconi University, but left without obtaining a degree. He began to work for his father and his oldest brother, Marco. Business Casiraghi 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 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, he was the director of the Christian Dior boutique in Monte Carlo. Speedboat racing