Word: bonomi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women are known more for their success in the kitchen than in the countinghouse, the world of high finance has long been considered the preserve of males. Now, because of the publicity accompanying the merger of two giant real estate companies, Italians have become aware that a woman, Anna Bonomi-Bolchini, is giving their country's top financial wizards a real run for their money...
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...