Perhaps the saddest part of the whole Gucci saga is that it is little more than an illustration of the old adage, “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.”įounder Guccio Gucci was a former hotel bellhop who opened a luxury leather goods shop in Florence. Her current relationship with her daughters is unknown. Photo by REUTERS / Toronto SunĪllegra and Alessandra Gucci, the adult daughters of Patrizia and Maurizio, control their late father’s estate, and in 2016, Patrizia told The Guardian they had cut her off - hence the court tussle. Cast members Al Pacino, Lady Gaga and Jared Leto attend the Premiere of the film ‘House of Gucci’ at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, on Nov. In 2017, a court ruled that Patrizia was entitled to $1.47million a year from her husband’s estate.Īn appeals court in Milan ruled that she was entitled to the money because of an agreement that Gucci signed in 1993, two years before he was murdered. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison. Neither of the four paid to kill had committed a previous crime. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. So she hired a hit man to kill Maurizio, 46 at the time, in 1995.
Patrizia would later say she couldn’t bear to see him lose the company like that and others said she was loathe to give up the Gucci name - as Maurizio was about to remarry. By then, his extravagant lifestyle was also draining the business by 1993, he had to sell his piece of the Gucci empire to Investcorp. Maurizio manipulated his way to becoming head of Gucci in 1992, but he was running the company into the ground. Long before social media or “influencers,” their wealth and glamour were on display - as the movie shows.īut family infighting began once Maurizio’s father died, and he inherited half the company. When their marriage was good, Patrizia and Maurizio were a power couple, living in New York and moving in the same circles as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The couple, who had two children, separated in 1985 and divorced in 1994.Ī year later, Patrizia had Maurizio killed.
The film is about the marriage of Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci, their spectacular success with the designer label founded by his grandfather, and the sordid unravelling of it all. Starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver and directed by Ridley Scott, the movie is based on the actual events captured in the book, House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, by Sara Gay Forden.
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