Reggiani admitted that she was called “the Black Widow” by the Italian tabloids, but was known in more upmarket circles as “Lady Gucci” want Her ex-husband is dead, angry about his impending marriage to a much younger woman and his $ 170 million gain from the sale of his Gucci stock in 1993, two years after they finalized their divorce. And she admitted that she was overjoyed after his death and thought that all of her problems were finally gone.
But she kept her innocence on the homicide squad and told the writer Sara Gay Forden in a correspondence from prison: “Maurizio was a man I loved most, despite all his flaws. ‘”
Reggiani and four accomplices were convicted of murder in 1998 after a five-month trial.
Born in the northern city of Vignola in modest circumstances, she and Maurizio Gucci were both 24 years old when they married in 1973 – despite his father Rodolfo Gucci‘s concerns.
“Be careful, Maurizio,” Rodolfo told him, according to Forden’s 2000 book Gucci’s house. “I received information about the girl. I don’t like her sound at all. I was told that she is vulgar and ambitious, a social climber who only has money on her mind. Maurizio, she is not the girl for you.” “
His son replied: “Pá, I can’t leave you. I love you.”
Reggiani persuaded Maurizio to be more ambitious in his role at Gucci, and he became head of the company during their marriage. “As a younger man he looked at Patrizia to support him and give him the strength to assert himself against his own father, but when he came to power he felt suppressed by her criticism,” Forden said New York Post. In 1985 they separated.
First sentenced to 29 years in prison for paying US $ 375,000 to kill Maurizio, a criminal court reduced her sentence to 26 years and she was released in October 2016 Great Britain Telegrh, a court ruled that under the terms of an agreement he signed two years before he was assassinated, she was legally entitled to an annual allowance of $ 1.2 million from Maurizio’s estate, plus back payments over the 17 years that she was was imprisoned.
“Maurizio has always loved me, he wanted me to have the best,” said Patrizia People Magazine Investigates: The Crimes of Fashion in 2018. “But he’s completely changed.” She also said cryptically, “I’m not guilty, but I’m not innocent. All of the things that happened were a misunderstanding.”
