Dubbed “the Black Widow” by the Italian tabloids however often known as “Girl Gucci” in additional genteel circles, Reggiani admitted to wanting her ex-husband useless, furious over his impending marriage to a a lot youthful lady and his $170 million windfall from the sale of his Gucci inventory in 1993, two years after their divorce was finalized. And he or she admitted to being blissful after he was useless, considering all her issues have been lastly gone.
However she maintained her innocence within the murder-for-hire plot, telling author Sara Homosexual Forden in correspondence from jail, “Maurizio was a person that I had cherished most, regardless of all of his errors.'”
Reggiani and 4 accomplices have been convicted of homicide after a five-month-long trial in 1998.
Born within the northern metropolis of Vignola in humble circumstances, she and Maurizio Gucci have been each 24 years outdated after they married in 1973—regardless of his father Rodolfo Gucci‘s considerations.
“Watch out, Maurizio,” Rodolfo advised him, per Forden’s 2000 ebook Home of Gucci. “I’ve acquired details about the lady. I don’t just like the sound of her in any respect. I’m advised she is vulgar and bold, a social climber who has nothing in thoughts however cash. Maurizio, she will not be the lady for you.”
To which his son replied, “Papá, I am unable to go away her. I really like her.”
Reggiani persuaded Maurizio to be extra bold in his function at Gucci, and it was throughout their marriage that he turned head of the corporate. “As a youthful man, he’d seemed to Patrizia to help him and provides him the energy to face as much as his personal father, however as he gained energy, he felt oppressed by her criticism,” Forden advised the New York Publish. They separated in 1985.
First sentenced to 29 years in jail for paying $375,000 to have Maurizio killed, an appeals court docket diminished her time period to 26 years and he or she was launched in October 2016. In 2017, in accordance with Britain’s Telegraph, a court docket dominated that she was legally entitled to an annual allowance of $1.2 million from Maurizio’s property, plus again funds from the 17 years she was in jail, per the phrases of an settlement he signed two years earlier than he was killed.
“Maurizio at all times cherished me, he wished me to have one of the best,” Patrizia mentioned on Individuals Journal Investigates: Crimes of Vogue in 2018. “However he modified utterly.” She additionally mentioned, cryptically, “I’m not responsible, however I’m not harmless. All of the issues that occurred have been a misunderstanding.”
