"In 2006, she enrolled at UCLA, where she studied French, art history, and theatre. Allegra Versace was eleven years old when her uncle Gianni Versace was fatally shot outside his Miami mansion in July 1997. Her mother immediately sought counseling for her. On her 18th birthday, she received 50% ownership of Gianni Versace S.p.A.. Allegra's uncle Santo Versace already owned 30% of the fashion empire, and her mother already owned 20%, but due to a long-standing disagreement between the two, the remaining 50% of the Versace empire was willed by Gianni to Allegra. Allegra instantly became worth hundreds of millions"
"had been beaten and stabbed, and his throat had been slashed with a gardener's bow saw. Cunanan was allegedly a gay escort already wanted in Minneapolis for murdering his friend Jeffrey Trail, 28, and ex-lover David Madson, 33, a few days earlier. On May 9, 1997, Cunanan murdered 45-year-old William Reese, caretaker of the Finn's Point National Cemetery in Pennsville, New Jersey, then ditched Miglin's Lexus and stole Reese's red pickup truck. Following Miglin's murder, the FBI added Cunanan to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Cunanan also killed the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace on July 15, 1997, two months"
"Antonio D'Amico Antonio D'Amico (born 20 January 1959) is an Italian model and fashion designer. D'Amico was born in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi, Italy and later lived in Milan. He was hired as a part-time office administrator for his first job. He met Gianni Versace in 1982, and the couple eventually embarked on a long-term relationship that lasted 15 years, until Versace's murder in 1997. During that time, he worked as designer for the Versace Sport line. D'Amico now runs his own fashion design company. Versace's will left D'Amico with a pension of 50 million lira a month for life,"
"the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History"", the season examines the July 1997 assassination of legendary fashion designer Gianni Versace (Édgar Ramírez) by sociopathic serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), who killed himself in a Miami Beach houseboat after an eight-day manhunt. The season also stars Ricky Martin as Antonio D'Amico and Penélope Cruz as Donatella Versace. Based on Sheri Fink's book ""Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital"", the season will take an unflinching look at the decisions doctors made at Memorial Medical Center (see also: Memorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina). In August 2017,"
"designer for the company, having become head designer for Istante and Versus Sport. Versace's will left D'Amico with a lifelong pension of 50million lire (about ) per month, and the right to live in any of Versace's homes in Italy and the United States. However, due to the Versace family's interference he only obtained a fraction of these allowances. D'Amico now runs his own fashion company. Versace was known for doting on his nieces and nephews: Santo's two children, Francesca and Antonio, and Donatella's two children, Allegra and Daniel. Versace was shot and killed on 15 July 1997, at the"
"Como. On July 15, 1997, Versace was shot dead in front of this house by Andrew Cunanan. The mansion was purchased by Peter Loftin for $19 million in 2000; he renovated the property to be used as a boutique hotel, restaurant and luxury event space. The restaurant was Il Sole at The Villa Casa Casuarina. The mansion was bought by VM South Beach, LLC for $41.5 million in 2013. Since 2015, the Villa Casa Casuarina has been a luxury hotel with 10 unique suites and the renowned gourmet restaurant Gianni's. Casa Casuarina The Villa, Casa Casuarina, also known as Versace"
"Gianni Versace Giovanni Maria ""Gianni"" Versace (; 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings, and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Naomi Campbell, Duran Duran, Madonna, Elton John, Cher, Sting, Tupac and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world. He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. On 15 July 1997, Versace"
"in order to greet his dead parents buried at Nizza Monferrato's cemetery in Piedmont. Donato Bilancia Donato ""Walter"" Bilancia, (born July 10, 1951) is an Italian serial killer who murdered 17 people – nine women and eight men – on the Italian Riviera in the period from October 1997 to May 1998. Bilancia's particularly confusional and asymmetrical modus operandi, made him difficult to identify and capture. There were no apparent direct links between majority of murders, he chose most of his victims by random and killed them using a .38 Special revolver, proving to be a real scourge in a"
"on March 9, 1997, as he and Sean Combs left the 11th Annual Soul Train Music Awards after-party held at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The lawsuit states the killing was committed ""in a very efficient, organized and professional manner, suggesting that a high degree of coordination and planning preceded his murder."" The suit further alleges that Pérez admitted to the LAPD that he and David Mack ""conspired to murder, and participated in the murder of Christopher Wallace."" Both Pérez and Nino Durden were on duty during the night of March 9, 1997. Wallace's murder"
"27th G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, where leaders of the world's major industrialized nations met. Among these protesters was Carlo Giuliani, a 23-year-old Roman Italian and resident of Genoa, whom a police officer shot and killed during what had become a riot two miles from the summit. It was the first death in an anti-globalization demonstration since its rise from the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. According to a Reuters photographer, who took photographs of the incident, Giuliani and several other young, male protesters had surrounded and attacked a police vans with rocks and other weapons. Italian television broadcast several photographs,"
"Donatella Versace Donatella Francesca Versace (; born 2 May 1955) is an Italian fashion designer and current vice president of the Versace Group, as well as its chief designer. During the 1980s, Donatella's brother, Gianni Versace, launched a perfume dedicated to her, ""Blonde"", and gave her her own fragrance label, Versus, which Gianni formerly ran for her. After Gianni's death, Donatella took over all aspects of the label. She was born in the Italian city of Reggio di Calabria, the youngest of four children. An older sister, Tina, died at the age of twelve from an improperly treated tetanus infection."
"announced that Versace's brother, Santo, would serve as the new CEO of Gianni Versace S.p.A. while Versace's sister, Donatella, had become the new head of design. In his will, Versace left 50% of his fashion empire to his niece, Allegra Versace. She and her younger brother, Daniel, inherited Versace's rare artwork collection. Allegra inherited her stake, worth approximately $500 million, when she turned 18 years old, in 2004. Versace was involved in numerous onscreen projects. Gianni Versace Giovanni Maria ""Gianni"" Versace (; 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international"
"The first fashion show was presented in Milan in 1990. Between 1995 and 2003, each season's collection of ready-to-wear, accessories, eye wear, and watches were presented in New York during New York Fashion Week. Versus was known for its distinctive rock-chic look that Donatella favoured and still influences the houses main line collections today. Versus grew to include menswear, fragrances, and its own (sub) diffusion line, Versus sport, headed by Versace's life partner, Antonio D'Amico. During 2004, when the company was facing a downturn in profits, Versus was reduced to a limited collection of accessories, eventually being shut down with"
"police arrived. They placed him in a trauma suite, but he died ""en route"" to the hospital. Sclafani was outside of the vehicle, having been shot out of his shoes. Officers handcuffed him on the scene for weapons possession. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York refused to grant Farace a public funeral mass, citing his notorious life and death. However, the Archdiocese did permit his remains to be buried in the church-owned Cemetery of the Resurrection in Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, the same area where Hatcher was murdered. On September 17, 1997, then-Bonanno mobsters James Galione and Mario Gallo"
"and two sweat shops in Manhattan's garment district, where between forty and fifty women made fabric for dress suits. In 1957, Profaci allegedly asked Gallo and his crew to murder Albert Anastasia, the boss of the Anastasia crime family. Anastasia's underboss, Carlo Gambino, wanted to replace him and asked Profaci for assistance. On October 25, Anastasia entered the barber shop at the Park Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. As he relaxed in the barber's chair, two men—scarves covering their faces—rushed in, shoved the barber out of the way, and killed Anastasia in a hail of bullets. Anastasia's killers have never"
"March 1998, while receiving oral sex at gunpoint from a prostitute, he shot and killed two night watchmen who interrupted, then shot the prostitute, who survived to help develop a police sketch and later testify against him. He also killed a Nigerian prostitute and a Ukrainian prostitute, and robbed and assaulted an Italian prostitute without killing her. On April 12, 1998 he boarded the train from Genoa to Venice because he ""wanted to kill a woman"". Spotting a young woman travelling alone, he followed her to the toilet, unlocked the door with a skeleton key, shot her in the head"
"Donato Bilancia Donato ""Walter"" Bilancia, (born July 10, 1951) is an Italian serial killer who murdered 17 people – nine women and eight men – on the Italian Riviera in the period from October 1997 to May 1998. Bilancia's particularly confusional and asymmetrical modus operandi, made him difficult to identify and capture. There were no apparent direct links between majority of murders, he chose most of his victims by random and killed them using a .38 Special revolver, proving to be a real scourge in a vast area of Northern Italy and becoming synonym of terror and fear among the"
"spelling error which was immediately noticed by the police. On July 8, he killed Giusepinna Jerardi in Genoa in the same way and hid the body in a stolen abandoned car. On July 18, he killed 14-year-old Maria Catena ""Tina"" Alba, whose naked body was found in Valbrevenna the next day, tied with a garrote to a tree. On August 22, after a night at the disco, he killed 21-year-old Maria Strambelli, a saleswoman from Bari, whose body was found 3 days after her disappearance in the outskirts of Genoa. The last victim was 19-year-old Wanda Scerra, a friend of"
"when Gianni was alive. I respected him as the boyfriend of my brother, but I never liked him as a person. So the relationship stayed the same."" D'Amico was portrayed by actor Oscar Torre in the 1998 film ""The Versace Murder"". In 2018, Ricky Martin portrayed D'Amico in the second season of the true crime television series ""American Crime Story"", subtitled """". Martin was nominated for his first Primetime Emmy Award for his performance. Antonio D'Amico Antonio D'Amico (born 20 January 1959) is an Italian model and fashion designer. D'Amico was born in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi, Italy and later"
"Turin neighborhood of San Salvario. In May, 20-year-old Moroccan prostitute Fatima H'Didou was raped and then strangled with the snare of a tracksuit in Caselette. On February 14, 1998, he strangled 29-year-old Albanian prostitute Floreta Islami with a scarf in Rivoli. On January 30, 1999, he strangled 73-year-old prostitute Cosima ""Gina"" Guido, from Taranto, with a scarf, in her apartment in the center of Turin. On the stairs of the woman's pied-à-terre two pieces of a kitchen towel with organic traces belonging to Minghella were found. 27-year-old mother of two children Florentina ""Tina"" Motoc was killed on the night between"
"Her brother Santo Versace owns 30 percent of Versace stock. In the mid-1970s, Donatella followed her older brother, Giovanni (""Gianni""), to pursue knitwear design in Florence, Italy. She had planned to work for her brother in the public relations department, but was more valuable to him as a ""muse and critic"", according to her during an interview with ""Vogue"". Through her closeness to her brother's enterprises, she entered the fashion world. During the 1980s, Gianni launched a perfume dedicated to her, ""Blonde"", and gave her her own label, ""Versus"". A year and three days after Gianni's death on 15 July"
"Murder of The Notorious B.I.G. The murder of Christopher Wallace, better known by his stage names ""The Notorious B.I.G."" and ""Biggie Smalls"", occurred in the early hours of March 9, 1997. The hip hop artist was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California, one of which was fatal. Despite numerous witnesses and enormous media attention and speculation, no one was ever formally charged for the murder of Wallace. The case remains officially unsolved, as police have searched for years for more details without success. In 2006, Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace; his widow, Faith Evans and his"
"including Elton John and Michael Jackson. Versace designed the stage costumes and album cover costumes for Elton John in 1992. Versace has also designed clothing for the Princess of Wales and Princess Caroline of Monaco. The Versace company is known for using the same models in their ads as they do on the runway. After the murder of Gianni Versace in 1997, his sister Donatella Versace, formerly vice-president, took over as creative director and his older brother Santo Versace became CEO. Donatella's daughter Allegra Versace was left a 50 percent stake in the company, which she assumed control of on"
"worldwide. A 17-year-old hooligan from Catania was later jailed and detained in custody, charged with the murder. As of February 2007, he was being investigated by the Italian police. On 17 February 2007, the city council of Quarrata, in Tuscany, approved a proposal to name the local football stadium after the Italian policeman. An official ceremony, also attended by Raciti's widow, was held on 10 March, making Quarrata the first city to name a stadium after him. Filippo Raciti Filippo Raciti (17 January 1967–2 February 2007) was an Italian police officer (""ispettore capo di polizia"") who was killed in a"
"""Wannabe"". In August 2000, after a night out with friends and colleagues in Manhattan, Camitz was hit by a SUV and died at St. Vincents Hospital Medical Center several hours later. The freakish accident made worldwide headlines since the man behind the wheel had died from a gunshot wound while driving the SUV that killed Camitz. Ivory Davis, who was parked in front of Club NV, a nightclub on the corner of Spring Street and Hudson Street in Manhattan, attempted to drive away from the scene after purportedly being shot by Damion Hardy of the Cash Money Brothers Gang. Cash"
"kidnapped and killed after 779 days in a failed attempt to force the father to retract his testimony on the killing of Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone. In June 1998, he also received a life sentence in a series of bomb attacks in 1993 in via dei Georgofili in Florence, the Via Palestro massacre in Milan and in the churches of St. John Lateran and San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome, which left 10 people dead and 93 injured as well as damage to centres of cultural heritage such as the Uffizi Gallery. The bomb attacks were part of a campaign"
"a train at Castiglion Fiorentino station, near Arezzo. Galesi and Emanuele Petri (one of the policemen) were killed, Lioce was arrested. On 23 October 2003, Italian police arrested six members of the Red Brigades in early-dawn raids in Florence, Sardinia, Rome and Pisa in connection with the murder of Massimo D'Antona. On 1 June 2005, four members of the Red Brigades-PCC were condemned to life-sentence in Bologna for the murder of Marco Biagi: Nadia Desdemona Lioce, Roberto Morandi, Marco Mezzasalma and Diana Blefari Melazzi. Several figures from the 1970s, including philosopher Antonio Negri who was wrongly accused of being the"
"criminal background of Giosue's brothers in Italy was even more extensive. Vincenzo Gallucci spent two terms in prison and was convicted sixteen times for assault, attempted murder and other crimes. Francesco Gallucci was convicted six times for attempted murder, theft, and assaulting the police. Vincenzo was shot in New York City on November 20, 1898, supposedly on orders from an Italian ""secret society similar to the Mafia"". He died the next day. Francesco D'Angelo and Luigi LaRosa were accused of the killing; both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 20 years and 15 years in prison, respectively. According"
"(PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the party. Wallace's truck stopped at a red light from the museum. A black Chevy Impala pulled up alongside Wallace's truck. The driver of the Impala, an African-American male dressed in a blue suit and bow tie, rolled down his window, drew a 9 mm blue-steel pistol and fired at the GMC Suburban. Four bullets hit Wallace. His entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but he was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. (PST). Wallace's funeral was held on March 18, 1997, at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan. There"
"an open jail in Pescara, where he was allowed to live a lifestyle he was already accustomed to, as well as running a translation company. On 19 April 2000, during day release from prison, a gunfight broke out between Viccei, an accomplice, and the police, resulting in the Viccei's death. Two autobiographies of Viccei's life have been published, titled ""Too Fast to Live"" (1992) and ""Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun"" (published posthumously in 2004). Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Cheval Place, Knightsbridge, England, part of the"
"the world. Versace is portrayed by Italian actor Giovanni Cirfiera in the of the anthology series ""American Crime Story"", which premiered on January 17, 2018. Santo Versace Santo Domenico Versace (; born 16 December 1944) is an Italian businessman who is the president and co-chief executive officer of Gianni Versace SpA, based in Milan, Italy. Since 2008 he has been elected as Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic in the constituency of Calabria. He is a member of the Alliance for Italy political party, formerly being a member of The People of Freedom. He was born"
"Death of Carlo Giuliani During an anti-globalization demonstration outside the July 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, protester Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by riot police as he and other demonstrators attacked their van, making his the first death during an anti-globalization demonstration since the movement's rise from the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. Photographs showed Giuliani, a 23-year-old Roman living in Genoa, throwing a fire extinguisher towards the van, a pistol firing a shot in return from the van, and Giuliani's body having been run over by the van. Charges against the officer were initially dropped without trial as a"
"file on their activities and the bands in which they had played. When the third murder occurred, Tollis took his findings to the police, who used them to link all three murders to Andrea Volpe and the wider satanic sect. The third murder was committed in January 2004. Mariangela Pezzotta, 27-year-old shop assistant, prior girlfriend of group member Andrea Volpe was first shot in the throat and later buried while she was still alive in a greenhouse in the nearby town of Golasecca not far from Somma Lombardo. Andrea Volpe was arrested shortly after with his young fiancée, an 18-year-old"