Paolo, whom I met on several occasions, was indeed eccentric and did some wacky things, but his overall demeanor was certainly not like the crazed and seemingly mentally challenged character of Leto's performance". Obviously, they were challenges in the transformation to the next level and Gucci exemplified that in the most extreme and dramatic way. According to Gucci, the three central concerns of the family are inaccuracies in the film, the lack of contact with Ridley Scott, and the casting of high-profile actors to play people who were not connected with the murder. I am just as worthy as the next man,” Onorato would think, “even if he is rich or from an important family. The rest of the book is about business: boardroom fiasco’s, family power struggles, legal battles and the world of investment banking.

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It is like hearing that Karen Millen thought about whacking her husband or finding out that the retailer Michael Marks planned to garrotte Thomas Spencer outside Marble Arch tube station. To give it its full title – The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. I was hoping for a story about the murder of Mauricio Gucci and trial of the accused (no spoilers here!Reggiani, the daughter of a waitress and a truck driver, met Maurizio, the grandson of fashion house founder Guccio Gucci, at a party in the early Seventies.

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Film critic Mark Kermode described his performance as "parodic", writing that "while others adopt faintly ridiculous Italian inflections, Leto delivers his lines in a string of high-pitched whoops that suggest he is attempting to communicate with whales.I haven't seen it) - it is an account of the creation, rise, fall, and rise again of the Gucci company - and I found it fascinating. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office.