How were the members of the Gucci family in real life?

Vidala style House of Gucci has aroused interest in the brand's founding family and this is all you should know about the real life of the family

By Esteban Villaseñor

The fashion world gave a great turnaround in 1995, when the heir to the throne of the Gucci family, Maurizio Gucci, was killed at the hands of a hitman for his own ex -wife, the socialite Patrizia Reggiani.After years of bad handling, in which the grandson of the founder of the firm Florentina was intrusted, the sale of Gucci marked not only the end of the brand's management by the family, but also the death of the businessman, inOne of the most unfortunate events in the fashion world.The same event that House of Gucci intends to recreate, under the direction of the Oscar winner for best director, Ridley Scott in 2021, to show us what the members of the Gucci family were like in real life and the events that triggered Maurizio's death.

The stir that has generated the appearance of artists like Adam Driver, Lady Gaga or Jared Leto in the cast of the movie House of Gucci (the Gucci house, for their title in Spanish), have left us speculating about this new filmwhich will come out at the end of the year (November 24) in the movie theaters.The singer and protagonist actress, who embodies the Italian socialite Patrizia Reggiani, has been in charge of making known the first images of the filming and with it some of the characterizations that will give life to this story in cinematography, based onThe journalistic novel The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamor, and Greed, written by Sara Gay Forden.What has increased the expectation of seeing on the big screen one of the most tragic and dramatic stories within the fashion world and approaching the reality of the members of the Gucci family, also increasing our doubts about the real life of its members.

Here is a review of the members of the emblematic family.

Lady Gaga is Patrizia Reggiani

The actress and singer Lady Gaga, will be in charge of embodying the woman behind the murder of Maurizio Gucci, her ex -wife Patrizia Reggiani.The nickname Lady Gucci, after married in 1973 with the heir of the fashion firm, was one of the most influential Italian socialites in the 80s and a model to follow within the world of shows, surrounded by luxuries and eccentricity insideof the high social sphere in Italy.

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After 12 years of marriage and conceiving two daughters, Allegra and Alessandra, Patrizia Reggiani divorced from the Italian magnate and by 1997, two years after the death of his ex -husband, he was surprisingly arrested as the person behind his murder and ayear later, she was sentenced to 29 years in prison for crime.The nicknamed ‘Black Widow’, a forgiveness was granted in exchange for community work, which he denied in 2011 by declaring ‘I have never worked in my life and of course I will not start now’.After 18 years, it was released in 2016 for good conduct and in 2017 it received 900 million pounds per year from Gucci, due to a contract signed in 1993.

Adam Driver is Maurizio Gucci

Gucci Gucci's grandson, Maurizio was the heir of the fashion firm after the death of his father, Rodolfo and establishing a legal battle with his uncle Aldo for the control of the Florentina brand.Born in 1948, he was in charge of selling most of the family's signing actions in 1988 and by 1993, consolidating the sale of his shares to the investment group Investcorp, after failing in the direction and being blamed for badhandles when spending large amounts at the company's headquarters both in Florence and Milan.

Recognized for his extravagance and high social life, the tycoon was killed with three bullets in the back at the hands of an Italian hitman on the morning of March 27, 1995 (a murder by Patrizia Reggiani), when he met entering the building of the firm of the firm Fashion.Returning to one of the most dramatic crime stories and that would leave a mark on fashion and in one of the most important fashion firms in Italy and the world.He will be played by Oscar nominee for Best Actor of Distribution at Blackkklansman, and best actor in Marriage Story, Adam Driver

Jeremy Irons is Rodolfo Gucci

Better known as Maurizio D’Ancora, Rodolfo Gucci was an Italian actor from the 30s.He was in charge - after the term of World War II and his time for the performance - to expand the horizons of the fashion firm under the tutelage of his father, the founder of Gucci, Guccio Gucci, and his brothers Aldo and Vasco.

In 1944, he married the Italian actress Sandra Ravel, with which she had her only son Maurizio Gucci, who would take care of the fashion firm after her death in 1983.Rodolfo, as his brothers, are attributed takeoff and expansion of the fashion firm after the opening of several stores throughout Italy, mainly in Milan and Rome in 1938 and in the 50s in New York.In House of Gucci, he will be played by the Oscar winner for Best Actor in Reversal of Fortune, Jeremy Irons.

Al Pacino is Aldo Gucci

The eldest son of Guccio Gucci, who will be played by the iconic to the Paccino, began his career in Gucci in 1938, when he was barely 20 years old, at the opening of the stores in Milan and Rome.Marked by the recognition of the brand's expansion, the greatest of the Gucci, was considered the firm's propeller in new horizons in the 50, however, for the 70s the brand and himself, they were immersed in family problems thatThey marked the future of the sale of Gucci outside the founding family.

In 1974, after the death of Vasco Gucci, Aldo and Rodolfo divide the company's actions and after the creation of a perfume subsidiary by Aldo, the dispute over the management of the fashion brand begins.While for 1986, Paolo Gucci, son of Aldo and vice president of the firm, declares against his father and this is sentenced to a year in prison for tax evasion in New York.On the other hand, since the death of his brother Rodolfo, his nephew Maurizio, acquires 50% of the brand and sells 47.8% of its total in 1988, which would mark a legal dispute between the two that would end Maurizio as CEO for 1989.Finally Aldo dies in Rome in 1990 because of prostate cancer.In Scott Ridley's film, he will be personified by the cinema legend, Al Pacino.

Jared Leto is Paolo Gucci

The Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor by Dallas Buyers Club, actor and singer Jared Leto, will be in charge of giving life on the big screen to the eldest son of Aldo Gucci, Paolo;Who will mark the story of the fashion firm when entering a legal dispute with his own father, by creating subsidiaries with the name of the brand without the company's permission.

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Born in 1931, he was the Vice President of the brand in the 80s, while his father shared the direction with his brother Rodolfo.After the death of the latter, the dispute between father and son has as an outcome Paolo's ruin and his father's accusation for tax evasion, the same dispute that his cousin Maurizio took advantage of to access the management of the company;thus marking the end of Gucci as a family business.After his departure from the firm, he founded the Paolo Gucci brand without success, and for 1995 he dies from chronic hepatitis at 64 years.