Fausto Coppi's son was born in Argentina so he could carry the Coppi name, because Italian law made him another man's son

Fausto Coppi won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Tour de France twice. He married Bruna Ciampolini in 1945, and their daughter Marina was born in 1947. Giulia Occhini was married to Enrico Locatelli, a town doctor and Coppi fan. After the 1954 Giro, Coppi and Occhini left their families and moved into Villa Carla in Novi Ligure. Locatelli filed an adultery complaint. On 9 September 1954 police arrested Occhini. She spent four days in Alessandria prison and was sent to live under police supervision in Ancona. Coppi's passport was taken. In March 1955 a court gave Coppi two months for abandoning the marital home and the pregnant Occhini three months, both suspended. Bruna refused a divorce. The couple married in Mexico, and Italy never recognised it. Locatelli refused to disown paternity of a child born to his wife. Their son, Angelo Fausto, called Faustino, was born in Buenos Aires on 13 May 1955 so he could receive the Coppi surname. In December 1959 Coppi caught malaria in Upper Volta. Doctors treated it as flu, and he died on 2 January 1960, aged 40. In January 2002 Rome prosecutors opened a file on a claim he was poisoned; it produced nothing. Italy's Constitutional Court struck down the crime of a wife's adultery on 16 December 1968. Occhini died in 1993 after a car crash outside Villa Coppi.^† how Coppi's estate was divided between the two families.