Enzo Giovanni
Sobriquet: In public venues or at company functions he is "Mister Giovanni" or "Director Giovanni", among the undead, and usually behind his back they call him the prince's "Minister of Information."
Appearance: Enzo Giovanni is a big man, tall and muscular, not that you could tell as he carries an extra hundred pounds around his middle. He is six-foot and two-inches tall and weights a good three hundred pounds. Enzo is a rarity among the undead, a fat vampire, but he doesn't let his girth stand in the way of a stylish way of life. He wears custom tailored suits of light colored fabrics, to lessen the impression of pudginess. Enzo is of medium dark complexion, like coffee with a lot of creme. And like good Italian coffee, his tan skin has faint wrinkles that add up to age and presumably wisdom. His black hair is shot with gray, as is he van-dyke goatee. He only wears gold jewelry, cufflinks emblazoned with the Gothic G for Clan Giovanni and a gold Sky Moon Tourbillon wristwatch which runs a cool two million for the businessman who has everything.
Behavior: Enzo is a jovial fellow, he can well afford to be a one of the world's richest men. Despite his wealth and power, he is quite affable and gregarious. He can sit and talk all night, about most any subject and he throws the most amazing parties. Despite being a Giovanni, he is the darling of Houston's night society and he has friends in the most unlikely of places.
History: As far as anyone can remember, Enzo Giovanni's history began with his election to the board of directs of Endron. Though he occasionally makes references to his early days as a media mogul in London, there is virtually no evidence that Enzo ever visited, let alone lived in London. Considering Prince Mithras' decree against Clan Giovanni and the strength of Mithras' Ventrue in London, it seems impossible that the agreeable Enzo could have survived there for any length of time without drawing their ire. Though, there are plenty of financial records that corroborate his story, principally those of Irish Eyes Enterprises,Ltd., a huge business conglomerate that concentrated primarily on media franchises in England and North America. Unfortunately, that corporate entity dissolved into several different lesser corporations when it was acquired by Endron International and it seems doubtful that any of the original employees of Enzo's media conglomerate still work for Endron, after all these years.
Of the man himself, there are no verifiable facts that corroborate or disprove Enzo's autobiography. According to the many stories that Enzo has told in Elysium over the years since his arrival in Houston, he was born a scion of an impoverished and minor branch of the Giovanni family. His father was a typesetter for a Venetian printer, and Enzo grew up with ink on his fingers.
He was raised to believe he would take up his father's trade, but the advent of the electromagnetic telegraph changed all that. As a youth, he applied and was accepted as an apprentice telegraph operator, unfortunately, the job was much too tedious for Enzo, but he saw the possibilities in it and invested all his wages in the newfangled gadget. The investment paid off far better than Enzo could have imagined for Europe and the Americas adopted the gizmo wholeheartedly. Shortly thereafter, he purchased the print-house that employed his father and in doing so, gained the attention of his patron and sire within Clan Giovanni.
The rest, Enzo says, is history. He immigrated to the United States after World War II and stayed with family until he saw his opportunity in Houston, Texas in the 1970s. The oil business was a big change for Enzo, but as a master of the arts of communication, he found a substantial position within one of the oil companies that sought to change its image with the public, Endron. But to Enzo, Endron is just an investment and with the oil industry on its last legs, he has set his sights on returning to the arena of media manipulation; a fact, that the new prince of Houston has used to his advantage in covering up the Sabbat-Camarilla war in the New Republic of Texas. Thus, once again, Enzo has found a niche in which to thrive and though he has no official title, he is know around Elysium as the prince's Minister of Information.
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