House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

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In February 2012, Scott's daughter Jordan Scott had replaced him as director and was in talks with Penélope Cruz to play Reggiani. Patrizia could have had a shorter tenure in Milan’s San Vittore prison, where she notably was allowed to have a pet ferret, and was eligible for parole in 2011, but she refused, opting to stay in jail, as opposed to joining a work-release program.

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She also said that the Gucci family will decide what their next course of action will be after watching the completed film. Reviewing the film for The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney wrote: "Ridley Scott's film is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn't have missed for the world. After years of reckless spending, he was forced to sell his Gucci shares to Bahrain-based investment company Investcorp in 1993. The ""Gucci concept,"" a group of colors and designs largely derived from horse stables, didn't hurt either. However, three of the people involved in the scheme (Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s friend and personal astrologer; Orazio Cicala, the getaway driver; and Ivano Savioni, the man who hired the hitman and driver) confessed to not only their involvement in the murder, but Patrizia’s role in organizing it.In August 2020, it was reported that the filming was expected to begin when Scott completed production of The Last Duel (2021). On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office. Then, on the morning of March 27, 1995, Maurizio was shot dead outside his Milan office by a gunman who immediately fled the scene.

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Aldo introduces Patrizia to his eccentric son Paolo, who aspires to be a designer within Gucci despite his lack of talent. Tom Ford, in an article for Air Mail, stated that he "felt as though [he] had lived through a hurricane when [he] left the theater," saying that, despite laughing on a few occasions, he found it "hard for [him] to see the humor and camp in something that was so bloody. Did make me slightly sad we didn't get House of Gucci as a Succession-esque mini-series b/c it is RIPE for that.Principal photography began in Rome at the end of February, with COVID-19 safety precautions in place. To do this, Bentivegna supplemented his use of Forden’s text with Italian articles from the time about the Gucci family’s public dramas, which he said took on a “tabloid sensationalism” especially surrounding Maurizio’s murder, which was later revealed to be a crime of passion, organized by Patrizia herself.