Lapo Elkann back in Italy

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One of country’s most eligible bachelors seen in Portofino (ANSA) – Rome, April 26 – Agnelli heir and Fiat executive Lapo Elkann has resurfaced on Italian soil six months after leaving the country amid a media frenzy to enter a drug rehab centre in the United States .

Italian newspapers on Wednesday published a photo of the 28-year-old Elkann with two female friends strolling through the Ligurian resort of Portofino, where he was snapped on Tuesday .

The young Fiat manager has been living in New York in recent weeks, preparing to return to Italy. He left on October 18 in order to enter a drug rehabilitation clinic in Arizona .

Elkann’s cocaine problem came to the public’s attention on the morning of October 10, when he was rushed to a Turin hospital in a coma after overdosing while at the home of a transexual prostitute .