Andrea Sassetti (born 1960) is an Italian shoe designer, owner of the Italian fashion company Andrea Moda , a brand of high-end women's shoes. Born in Fermo , he was also the owner of a Formula One motor racing team Andrea Moda Formula in 1992. The origin of Sassetti's fortune remain blurred; some sources attribute it to his father, Silvano Sassetti, a wealthy shoe manufacturer. Others suggest that he won a huge sum playing poker in the 1980s or hint at links with the mafia and illegal trade. According to a telephone interview published on the internet, Sassetti was born into a family of poor peasants who grew rich by working and earning money through gambling.
5-486: Sassetti is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Andrea Sassetti (born 1960), Italian shoe designer and businessman Bernardo Sassetti (1970–2012), Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer Filippo Sassetti , (1540–1588), Italian merchant Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490), Italian banker João Sassetti (1892–1946), Portuguese fencer See also [ edit ] Sassetti Chapel ,
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15-439: A gunman shot at him but missed. He now runs restaurants and nightclubs, and is involved in the construction business. Still interested in the sport, he had a home until the early 2000s with the two original Andrea Moda S921 cars; the cars subsequently disappeared. This business-related Italian biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article related to Italian auto racing
20-558: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Andrea Sassetti When preparing for the 1992 Formula One World Championship , the headquarters of Andrea Moda Formula was installed in the former workshops of the Coloni team, Passignano sul Trasimeno , a small town in central Italy. The new team, which had forty employees, continued to use the materials from the old team; according to several observers, Sassetti had very little, if any, additional funding invested in improving
25-403: The infrastructure, which could have denoted a lack of seriousness of the new racing structure. In January 1992, in order to complete his racing staff, Sassetti set out to recruit, among others, a mechanic and truck driver from among the workers at his shoe factory. During 1992, a suspected case of arson destroyed Sassetti's discothèque on the east coast of Italy, and as he fled from the flames,
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