The story that inspired the film is truly mind-boggling, and we walk you through it
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: MGM In case you haven’t heard, people are pretty excited about Ridley Scott’s upcoming film House of Gucci. The movie birthed dozens of Halloween costumes based on its trailers alone and finally hits theaters on November 24. The film is based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 book of the same name and centers on Patrizia Reggiani , chronicling her entry into the Gucci family and the eventual murder of her former husband, Maurizio Gucci .
Patrizia helped Maurizio plot a takeover of the fashion house, which was in desperate need of a revamp by the time he took over in 1983 when his father Rodolfo died and left him majority ownership of the company. Maurizio was eventually forced out by Aldo and his cousins in the mid-’80s and struggling financially from the pile of lawsuits accrued during all the feuding; he later ended up having to sell his shares of Gucci to an investment group in 1993.
And then, in 1984, just around the time he started losing his grip on the Gucci dynasty, Maurizio left Patrizia for another woman. He told her he was going on a business trip and, the next day, sent a friend to tell her the marriage was over. In the ensuing years, Patrizia made her rage extremely clear. She frequently told friends she was writing an autobiography that would destroy the family and called her €2.5 million divorce settlement “a mere bowl of lentils.
What happened at the trial? Patrizia Reggiani’s trial was, to reiterate, absolutely bonkers. The tapes Reggiani sent threatening Maurizio and Franchi were played in court. Reggiani’s four co-conspirators testified, three of them confessing and stating Reggiani had organized the whole thing. Benedetto Ceraulo, the hit man who actually pulled the trigger, was the only one who denied the charges.
Despite the mountain of evidence suggesting otherwise, Reggiani maintained her innocence, claiming that she did indeed want Maurizio dead but that Auriemma was framing her. She even confessed to having asked her friends how much a hit man would cost, but in a just wondering sort of way and not an I’m planning to take out my ex-husband way. Her lawyers pleaded mental instability, blaming an operation she had in 1992 to remove a brain tumor, which they said had altered her personality.
Reggiani cooperated with Forden during research for the book, writing her letters from prison . She’s made it clear she’s disgruntled with her lack of involvement in the movie, though: In March, she told an Italian newspaper that she was “rather annoyed at the fact that Lady Gaga is playing me in the new Ridley Scott film without having had the consideration and sensibility to come and meet me.
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