The Wild True Story Behind Lady Gaga and Adam Driver’s Gucci Assassination Movie

Lady Gucci: the story of Patrizia Reggiani, Discovery +’s latest true crime documentary (premiering on March 21), is not a police officer. In revisiting the murder of March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, the head of the famous Italian fashion brand, director Jovica Nonkovic’s film makes it 100% clear that the brain behind this murder was Gucci’s wife, Patrizia Reggiani. As well? He interviews Reggiani herself, who openly admits on camera that she left Milan asking: “Does anyone here have the courage to kill my husband?” And that when the cops finally arrived at his door, his reaction was: “I didn’t think they would catch me. “

Reggiani’s participation is the main attraction of the non-fiction feature of the streaming service, whose arrival follows the recent announcement by Lady Gaga and Adam Driver that they are collaborating on the Ridley Scott drama Gucci house about Reggiani’s story. Certainly, there is a lot of juice in this story of bad taste, which here is guided by Reggiani, who in the back seat of a luxury sedan traveling the streets of Milan, confesses: “I grew up among beautiful things”. That ostentatious childhood came thanks to her mother’s marriage to the successful businessman Ferdinando Reggiani, and instilled in her a love of high life. Meanwhile, her beauty and charm made her a desirable socialite – “like a mini Liz Taylor,” says a friend – and she later caught Gucci’s attention, who was exactly the type of man (handsome, rich, important) that she was looking to arrest.

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A wedding of 500 people later (in 1972) and they were a couple of international power, much to the chagrin of Gucci’s father (who did not attend his son’s nuptials). However, as Lady Gucci elucidates, Reggiani was very dear to Gucci’s uncle, Aldo, and for a time, their union was happy, having two daughters and leading to a stay in a fabulous penthouse apartment in New York. Reggiani is nostalgic in Nonkovic’s documentary about her luxurious existence on the 70s jet set, full of waking up at 11 am and being driven around the city in a Bentley, and then attending and / or hosting gala parties where she was the real center of attention. At that time, she also befriended Giuseppina “Pina” Auriemma, who in a new interview revealed that Reggiani’s personality was deeply shaped by her tumultuous relationship with an egocentric mother who treated her badly (supposedly, she referred to Reggiani as her “Bastard”), forcing Reggiani to look for loyal love elsewhere.

Pina is fundamental to this sordid saga, although Nonkovic is slow to explain the tangled web that would soon involve his various characters. Through interviews not only with Reggiani and Pina, but also with acquaintances, journalists, criminologists and researchers, she conveys the brilliance of the environment that Reggiani inhabited, albeit in a hurry that can be a little frustrating. Part of the appeal of Lady Gucci it is the medium in which she operated – a daily procession of chauffeur-driven cars, private jets, beautiful models, business tycoons and celebrity elites who would make Robin Leach salivate. The fact that the program does not waste any more time establishing the context of its central crime seems like a lesser missed opportunity.

However, what he has is Reggiani, sitting in a living room chair talking to the camera with an unapologetic smugness that is both repulsive, good-natured and fascinating. There doesn’t seem to be a shameful bone in the 72-year-old woman’s body as she describes the cunning maneuvers that gave her husband control of the family empire, the purchase of a bloody 65-meter sailboat called Creole, and the disintegration of marriage in the decade. 1980, after the literal abandonment of her and her children by another woman. Reggiani does this with an expression of invincibility on his face, and the fact that director Nonkovic routinely punctuates dramatic moments with a close-up zoom of the “Black Widow” – his expression exuding haughtiness of cold blood – only accentuates the procedures . comic sensationalism.

Things came to a head when Gucci, struggling at the helm of the company, chose to sell his controlling stock to Investcorp, based in Bahrain for $ 170 million, and then filed for divorce – all while not visiting Reggiani when I was in the hospital for brain tumor surgery. “You are a … a deformed tumor. You are a painful appendage, ”Reggiani is heard saying to his spouse in a voicemail message, and slander was just the beginning of his plot. Faced with the loss of his social and financial position if Gucci remarried, Reggiani chose to get rid of him, hiring Pina to find men to carry out a coup. Lady Gucci details this scheme in a fun way, with Pina and Reggiani simultaneously giving their own versions of the events, with the first claiming that she only intended to deceive Reggiani without money (although the murder never actually occurred), and the last claiming that it was the deceived victim of Pina and her crooks.

Patrizia Reggiani on Lady Gucci

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Thanks to a complaint that materialized almost two years after Gucci’s death, police chief Filippo Ninni (who was also interviewed at length) ended up unraveling the conspiracy of Reggiani and Pina, through a framework known as “Operation Carlos” , which involved an undercover agent posing as a southern American killer killer. Lady Gucci it allows Reggiani and Pina to defend their own innocence, although it appears that Reggiani does not actually buy what he is selling. Her egomania is the real star of this show, so monumental and imperturbable that she was not even shaken by her condemnation, which earned her 26 years behind bars. “It was great. I wish I was still in San Vittore,” she says of the prison, while respondents report that she received first-class treatment in prison, which made it look like a vacation spa.

Reggiani’s attitude and demeanor seem like something out of a flourishing gangster film, which explains a lot why his story continues to resonate – and is set to be a luxurious Hollywood project headed by one of the world’s biggest music stars. Lady Gucci it is too formally straightforward to become anything close to global success. However, what is lacking in stylistic style is compensated by Reggiani herself. Living proof that the rich and powerful rarely suffer fatal blows in criminal justice (even when found guilty of heinous crimes), she is a tabloid-ready figure whose defiant lack of remorse makes her a mesmerizing and grotesque monster to behold.

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