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Nov 24, 2021 · Here's what's fact and fiction in 'House of Gucci,' Ridley Scott's new film inspired by the true story of the Gucci family.
- Cady Lang
- From Daughter of A Laundress to Star of The Social Scene
- Family Feuds and Financial Fears Spell Divorce — and Danger For Maurizio
- The Tip-Off That Led to A Team of Hitmen, A Psychic and 'La signora'
- A Court Case Fit For A Soap Opera
- 'The Most Gucci of Them All'
Born in the small northern town of Vignola in 1948, Patrizia grew up as the only child of Silvana Barbieri, a waitress and launderer. Patrizia never knew her biological father, but by the time she was 12, her mother had left her first husband (a Martinelli) for a handsome trucking magnate, Fernando Reggiani. They moved to up-and-coming Milan where ...
Early in their marriage, as Maurizio was finding his feet in the family business, Patrizia offered her husband advice, and propelled him toward a role as heir apparent. "Maurizio felt free with me. We had fun, we were a team," she told The Guardian. But she said everything changed when they returned to Milan after the death of Rodolfo in 1983. Maur...
On the day that Maurizio died, Patrizia wrote a single word into her Cartier diary: "PARADEISOS" — the Greek word for paradise. Afterward she marched over to the apartment on Corso Venezia where her ex-husband had been living with Paola and her son, and demanded to speak with the lady of the house. Paola was distraught. And according to Forden's bo...
Throughout the 80s and 90s, countless Gucci family dramas played out in the courts. Maurizio's cousin Paolo Gucci was sued by his father Aldo for secretly launching a business using the Gucci name. He then dobbed in his father to the IRS, and Aldo was jailed for tax evasion. Maurizio himself landed in hot water over offshore funds used to buy the C...
Patrizia's prison cell was a far cry from the opulence she had enjoyed as Mrs Gucci. She regularly clashed with other inmates and lobbied the warden for a private cell and a refrigerator to keep the homemade delicacies her mother Silvana delivered every week — to no avail. She was granted permission to keep plants and a pet ferret, Bambi, as a spec...
- Lucy Sweeney
Nov 26, 2021 · The larger-than-life characters of 'House of Gucci' are still no match for the lives of glamour, wealth and drama lived by the real-life subjects of the movie.
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Nov 11, 2021 · The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office.
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- Sara Gay Forden
Nov 23, 2021 · Described by Glamour magazine as a “tale of decadence, betrayal, revenge and ultimately murder”, the movie follows the real-life plot by Italian socialite Patrizia Reggiani to kill her ex ...
Nov 19, 2021 · Ahead of the release of Lady Gaga's movie House of Gucci, discover the real story of Maurizio and Patrizia and what it meant for fashion. Glamour, greed, murder... and some truly incredible...
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Nov 26, 2021 · 'House of Gucci' is surprisingly accurate in its depiction of the murder of Maurizio Gucci. Here's what's true and what isn't in the new movie.
