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Anna inherited Beni Immobili Italia after Carlo Bonomi, a millionaire who adopted her as a child, died in 1940. When a group of relatives challenged her inheritance on the grounds that Anna was Carlo’s illegitimate child and thus not an heir under Italian law, she fought a hard court battle and won. After that, it was merely a matter of following in her father’s footsteps. “I was his only child,” Anna recalled recently for the Italian magazine Oggi (she refuses to see foreign journalists). “Often he would take me with him to visit his workshop, and he always quizzed me on the jobs he was doing: ‘Tell me, Anna, how would you design this palace?’ ” Anna credits her father with instilling in her “the religion of work and duty.The Lady Magnate of Milan - TIME
