What happened is absurd, unexplainable, terrible I feel only infinite pain. While the fashion industry tried to make sense of the untimely death, the FBI was soon involved too. Reportedly a high I. One of the biggest questions marks left behind was whether Versace and Cunanan knew one another. Some sources claim that Cunanan met Versace in San Francisco years before the shooting, but the Versace family has been adamant that the two had never met.
Cunanan was on a rampage in the spring of , with four murders between April 27 and May 9. The first was his supposed best friend Jeffrey Trail, 28, followed by his crush, David Madson, 33, in Minnesota. He then moved on to Chicago year-old real estate businessman Lee Miglin. The deadly spree had landed Cunanan a spot as one of the F. While a couple of months had gone by, Cunanan had apparently been living in Miami since May 12 at Normandy Plaza, four miles away from the Versace mansion. He lived a sort of double life, dressing up and going out to enjoy the nightlife and then mostly just eating pizza.
For the last five years, Versace spent about half his time at his Miami Beach home. And on Thursday, July 10, he returned. Two days later, Cunanan checked out of the Normandy Plaza — and on that Tuesday, he attacked. Since he shot in such close range, eyewitnesses saw him running — and the clothes he was wearing were found by the red truck in a parking garage.
Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. This Day in History. Space Exploration. World War I. US Politics. Sign Up. Art, Literature, and Film History. Accusations about who could have done more and sooner became academic as Versace's family tried to go forward without him.
His younger sister and muse Donatella fell into drug addiction, nearly losing her place in the company, before checking into rehab at the urging of Elton John. In the last seven years, however, the company has made a sensational comeback with Santo and Donatella at the helm. They kept the house, they kept the name. Gianni was so close… and then all of a sudden he was gone. The Versace family believes that the designer did not know Cunanan. At that point in his life, they say, Versace was a workaholic who went to bed early, and cherished his committed longterm relationship.
In the end, no one knows for certain if these two vastly different men crossed paths before July 15, , or why Cunanan singled Versace out for death that day. The Scene. Type keyword s to search. By Nancy Bilyeau. An aerial view of the former Gianni Versace mansion. The photo was taken on July 24, one day after police found Cunanan dead.
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