What does not appear in his official biography, in English, at Wikipedia, is that in 2006 he was accused of being involved in a criminal racket. The accusations were so credible that one member of the family, at least, declared he was no longer a noble.

He also admitted responsibility in the death of Dirk Hammer, who died of a gun shot wound on the prince’s yacht years before, according to his Wikipedia article on the House of Savoy:

When incarcerated in June 2006, Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting with regard to the killing of Dirk Hamer that “I was in the wrong, […] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]”,^[23] leading to a call from Hamer’s sister Birgit for Vittorio Emanuele to be retried in Italy for the killing.^[24] After a long legal fight, Birgit Hamer obtained the full video.^[25] The story was broken in the press by aristocratic journalist Beatrice Borromeo,^[26] who also wrote the preface for a book on the murder Delitto senza castigo by Birgit Hamer. Vittorio Emanuele sued the newspaper for defamation, claiming the video had been manipulated. In 2015, a court judgement ruled in favor of the newspaper