His father was Edoardo Agnelli, who died in an air crash when he was just a year old, and he was orphaned when his mother Virginia also died early, in a car-accident when he was still only 11.
Его отец Эдуардо (1892—1935) погиб в авиакатастрофе, когда Умберто был год, и его мать погибла в автокатастрофе, когда ему было 11.