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Forbes magazine, as every year, has compiled its ranking of the richest men in Italy, and several sports personalities are also found. First up is fashion designer Giorgio Armani, owner of Milan's basketball team, Olimpia, whose $11.3 billion in assets ranks on the national podium behind Giovanni Ferrero and Andrea Pignataro. In the world of soccer...

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A resounding success, the "Orgoglio e Memoria: Emigrazione dal Meridione” exhibit opened at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York in Manhattan Wednesday evening to an enthusiastic standing-room-only audience. After introductions and salient speeches by a plethora of speakers, this year’s esteemed “Wall of Fame” honorees, Rocco B. Commisso and...

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John Cabot University, the fully accredited American University located in the heart of Rome, hosted its annual Gala in New York City to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The premiere university event took place at the Union League Club. The New York Gala, is a celebration of John Cabot University and offers the opportunity to support its academic in...

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A billionaire cable TV empire owner does not own a yacht, private jet and mansion on a beach, instead he shelled out $170 million to buy an Italian pro soccer team. Rocco Commisso, 73, bought ACF Fiorentina in Florence three years ago. His wife told him that if he insisted on buying a team, it needed to be somewhere nice. The price tag was also a b...

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This Sunday at 7:00 p.m., CBS’s 60 Minutes television news program will feature Rocco B. Commisso, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Orange County headquartered Mediacom Communications Corporation in a segment entitled “Only in America.” Commisso is one of the most successful Italian immigrant entrepreneurs in the nation’s history, and his story will b...

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This interview is a little different from the others, because it concerns a project that was born from the collaboration between We the Italians and Zwan, a leading Reputation Assessment company in Italy. With Davide Ippolito, the protagonist of this interview, we decided to start the Italian American Reputation Lab, which will monitor the reputati...

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Rocco B. Commisso (’71SEAS, ’75BUS), the founder, chairman, and CEO of Mediacom Communications and president of Florence, Italy based football club ACF Fiorentina, and his wife Catherine Commisso have generously donated one of the largest gifts to date designated for undergraduate scholarship support to the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and A...

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Regarding the recent disagreements between Rocco Commisso and the national Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, the president of Fiorentina can also count on the support of a well-known Italian American philanthropist: Angelo Vivolo. A charismatic figure like Vivolo will be in the front line in defense of his compatriot and owner of Me...

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This is what America Oggi writes about Commisso's complaint to the Gazzetta dello Sport: "Commisso has decided to file a complaint-filing for the crime of aggravated defamation in the press against the Gazzetta dello Sport. The Italian-American businessman believes that the tone used in the article signed by Andrea Di Caro last May was "openly deni...

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“I’m a distinct animal,” says Rocco Commisso. “I hope they respect a distinct animal. And in the event that they don’t respect that, screw them.” The American billionaire and proprietor of ACF Fiorentina, a well-known however underachieving Italian soccer membership, is reflecting on his relationship with the staff’s supporters, gamers, different m...

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