Dubbed “the Black Widow” by the Italian tabloids however referred to as “Lady Gucci” in more cultured circles, Reggiani confessed to desiring her ex-husband dead, livid over his approaching marital relationship to a much more youthful female and his $170 million windfall from the sale of his Gucci stock in 1993, 2 years after their divorce was settled. And she confessed to being pleased after he was dead, believing all her issues were lastly gone.
But she kept her innocence in the murder-for-hire plot, informing author Sara Gay Forden in correspondence from prison, “Maurizio was a man that I had loved most, despite all of his mistakes.'”
Reggiani and 4 accomplices were founded guilty of murder after a five-month-long trial in 1998
Born in the northern city of Vignola in modest situations, she and Maurizio Gucci were both 24 years of ages when they wed in 1973– in spite of his daddy Rodolfo Gucci‘s issues.
“Be careful, Maurizio,” Rodolfo informed him, per Forden’s 2000 book House of Gucci “I have received information about the girl. I do not like the sound of her at all. I am told she is vulgar and ambitious, a social climber who has nothing in mind but money. Maurizio, she is not the girl for you.”
To which his kid responded, “Papá, I can’t leave her. I love her.”
Reggiani encouraged Maurizio to be more enthusiastic in his function at Gucci, and it was throughout their marital relationship that he ended up being head of the business. “As a younger man, he’d looked to Patrizia to support him and give him the strength to stand up to his own father, but as he gained power, he felt oppressed by her criticism,” Forden informed the New York Post They separated in 1985.
First sentenced to 29 years in jail for paying $375,000 to have Maurizio eliminated, an appeals court decreased her term to 26 years and she was launched in October2016 In 2017, according to Britain’s Telegraph, a court ruled that she was lawfully entitled to a yearly allowance of $1.2 million from Maurizio’s estate, plus back payments from the 17 years she remained in jail, per the regards to an arrangement he signed 2 years prior to he was eliminated.
“Maurizio always loved me, he wanted me to have the best,” Patrizia stated on People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion in2018 “But he changed completely.” She likewise stated, cryptically, “I am not guilty, but I am not innocent. All the things that happened were a misunderstanding.”
