The true story
of House of
Gucci

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RELEASED ON THE 24TH OF NOVEMBER, 2021, YOU'VE
PROBABLY SEEN THE INFAMOUS HOUSE OF GUCCI FILM AND
A TAB BUT CURIOUS ABOUT JUST HOW REAL THE MOVIE IS.
SO IT IS? WELL, TO A GREAT EXTENT IT IS BUT YOU CAN
ALWAYS TRUST THE CREATIVITY OF HOLLYWOOD TO PUT A
SPIN OR TWO ON THE ORIGINALS.
THE MOVIE IS BASED ON THE STORY OF MAURIZIO GUCCI AND
PATRIZIA REGGIANI, BOTH REAL PEOPLE WITH TWISTS AND
TURNS IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

THE MOVIE WHICH FEATURED SENSATIONAL SINGER LADY
GAGA WAS AN ADAPTATION OF SARA G. FORDEN’S 2001 NON-
FICTION BOOK, THE HOUSE OF GUCCI: A STORY OF MURDER,
MADNESS, GLAMOUR, AND GREED.
THE BOOK IS A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE DRAMATIC
GUCCI FAMILY LEGACY AND FOCUSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF
ITALIAN SOCIALITE PATRIZIA REGGIANI AND GUCCI HEIR
MAURIZIO GUCCI AND HIS SCANDALOUS MURDER.

THE GUCCI HEIR MAURIZIO MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF A
TRUCKING MAGNATE PATRIZIA REGGIANI IN 1973 AT AGE 24
AND LATER HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, ALESSANDRA AND
ALLEGRA.
THEY OWNED PRIVATE ISLANDS AND PROPERTIES IN
VARIOUS LOCATIONS ACROSS THE WORLD INCLUDING SAINT
MORITZ, CONNECTICUT, AND ACAPULCO.

MAURIZIO DIRECTED THE AFFAIRS OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS
WHILE PATRIZIA SERVED IN THE CAPACITY OF GUCCI'S CHIEF
ADVISOR. BUT MAURIZIO'S OWNERSHIP OF HIS FATHER'S
STAKE WASN'T PLEASANT: HE INHERITED HIS FATHER’S
MAJORITY STAKE IN GUCCI AND THIS LED TO SOME FAMILY
SQUABBLES, PARTICULARLY WITH HIS UNCLE ALDO GUCCI,
VYING FOR FULL CONTROL OF THE COMPANY.
EVENTUALLY MAURIZIO WON. AND SOON AFTER, IN 1985, HE
LEFT PATRIZIA AND HIS DAUGHTERS FOR A LIFE WITH HIS
NEW GIRLFRIEND, PAOLA FRANCHI.

LIKE THE PROVERBIAL PRODIGAL SON, IN 1993, MAURIZIO
WAS FORCED TO SELL HIS SHARES IN THE COMPANY TO
INVESTCORP, FOR $120 MILLION AFTER HIS RECKLESS
SPENDING ESCAPADES.
IN 1994, REGGIANI RECEIVED A DIVORCE SETTLEMENT THAT
WOULD NET HER $1 MILLION A YEAR (A DECADE AFTER THEY
SPLIT) BUT SHE WAS PUBLICLY STILL EXTREMELY RESENTFUL
OF HER EX.

AND A YEAR AFTER THE DIVORCE, ON MARCH 27 MAURIZIO
WAS SHOT WHILE ENTERING HIS OFFICE BUILDING BY
MYSTERIOUS GUNMEN.
WITH HER OBVIOUS RESENTMENT FOR HER DIVORCED
HUSBAND, PATRIZIA WAS THE IMMEDIATE PRIME SUSPECT.

WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, THE POLICE WERE
UNABLE TO CHARGE ANYONE. IT WASN'T UNTIL TWO YEARS
LATER IN JANUARY 1997 THAT ITALIAN POLICE RECEIVED AN
ANONYMOUS TIP THAT SPARKED THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO
REGGIANI.

THEY SOON DISCOVERED THAT REGGIANI COLLUDED WITH
HER FRIEND AND PSYCHIC, PINA AURIEMMA, AND AGREED TO
PAY AURIEMMA 600 MILLION LIRE ($365,000) IN EXCHANGE
FOR HAVING MAURIZIO KILLED, ACCORDING TO FORBES.
REGGIANI'S ARREST AND CONNECTION TO HER HUSBAND'S
MURDER SET OFF A MEDIA FIRESTORM. DUBBED THE "BLACK
WIDOW," THE SENSATIONAL 1998 TRIAL WAS HIGHLIGHTED
BY REGGIANI'S UNAPOLOGETIC AND COLORFUL
PERSONALITY. PROSECUTORS ALLEGED SHE WAS MOTIVATED
BY GREED AND JEALOUSY OF HER EX'S NEW PARTNER,
FRANCHI.

ALTHOUGH SHE MAINTAINED HER INNOCENCE, CLAIMING
THAT PINA ORCHESTRATED THE MURDER AND THEN
BLACKMAILED HER, PATRIZIA WAS CONVICTED OF
ARRANGING MAURIZIO’S MURDER AND SENTENCED TO 29
YEARS IN PRISON. THE OTHER THREE INVOLVED IN THE
MURDER ALSO RECEIVED LENGTHY PRISON SENTENCES.
IN OCTOBER 2016, AFTER SERVING 18 YEARS, PATRIZIA
REGGIANI WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON