The house of Gucci : a true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed / Sara Gay Forden.

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Forden, Sara Gay

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Custom House paperback editionDescription: viii, 532 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, geneaology chart, portraits, photographs ; 21 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780063159983
0063159988

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Contents:

Gucci family tree -- A death -- The Gucci dynasty -- Gucci goes American -- Youthful rebellion -- Family rivalries -- Paolo strikes back -- Wins and losses -- Maurizio takes charge -- Changing partners -- Americans -- A day in court -- Divorce -- A mountain of debts -- Luxury living -- Paradeisos -- Turnaround -- Arrests -- Trial -- Takeover -- Epilogue -- Afterword : Everything's Gucci.

Summary: On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan's elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his office by an unknown gunman. Two years later, Milan's chief of police entered the sumptuous palazzo of Maurizio's ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani--nicknamed "the Black Widow" by the press--and arrested her for murder. Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it out of jealousy, because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn't do it at all? The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, and intrigue--a chronicle of the rise, near fall, and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, Sara Gay Forden's The House of Gucci is a page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	New Books	364.152 FOR	Available	pap ed.		36748002535195

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

New York Times Bestseller * Source for the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver

The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword

Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn't do it at all?

The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, and intrigue--a chronicle of the rise, near fall, and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, The House of Gucci is a page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.

Film tie-in.

With a new afterword by the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan's elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his office by an unknown gunman. Two years later, Milan's chief of police entered the sumptuous palazzo of Maurizio's ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani--nicknamed "the Black Widow" by the press--and arrested her for murder. Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it out of jealousy, because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn't do it at all? The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, and intrigue--a chronicle of the rise, near fall, and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, Sara Gay Forden's The House of Gucci is a page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Gucci Family Tree (p. ix)
1 A Death (p. 1)
2 The Gucci Dynasty (p. 8)
3 Gucci Goes American (p. 35)
4 Youthful Rebellion (p. 57)
5 Family Rivalries (p. 85)
6 Paolo Strikes Back (p. 109)
7 Wins and Losses (p. 126)
8 Maurizio Takes Charge (p. 140)
9 Changing Partners (p. 176)
10 Americans (p. 210)
11 A Day In Court (p. 224)
12 Divorce (p. 250)
13 A Mountain of Debts (p. 274)
14 Luxury Living (p. 308)
I5 Paradeisos (p. 326)
16 Turnaround (p. 343)
17 Arrests (p. 378)
18 Trial (p. 400)
19 Takeover (p. 429)
Epilogue (p. 470)
Afterword : Everything's Gucci (p. 483)
Acknowledgments (p. 499)
Notes (p. 503)
Index (p. 517)

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Kirkus Book Review

As the Gucci saga heads to the big screen with a dream-team cast, the opus that inspired it, originally published in 2000, is reissued and updated. Forden begins with a riveting description of the 1995 execution-style shooting of Maurizio Gucci, as witnessed by the doorman of his building. It's an apt opener given the subtitle. About half of what follows lives up to that billing, and surely it is that half we will see in Ridley Scott's upcoming film. The other half might be called "A True Story of Boardrooms, Lawyers, Negotiations, and Handbag Manufacturing." Forden presents the decades of poor business decisions made by the family--as one lawyer put it, "We have to save Gucci from the Guccis!"--in meticulous detail. The author, a former Milan bureau chief for Women's Wear Daily, does her best to bring the boardroom and banking scenes to life. She also gives a thorough account of the fashion side of the story, from the construction of the iconic bamboo-handle bag to the runway sensations of the "Tom and Dom" era (designer Tom Ford and CEO Domenico De Sole), which included a Gucci G-string. Perhaps the most outrageous of the many larger-than-life characters is Patrizia Reggiani (played by Lady Gaga in the film), a shameless gold digger who announced she would rather "weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle" and blithely ordered the murder of her husband when their interests diverged. As her own lawyer put it, "This story makes a Greek tragedy look like a children's story." According to Forden, "the trial spotlighted the passionate, excessive lives of Maurizio and Patrizia in stark contrast to the gray squalor in which Pina and her three accomplices lived. And like the O.J. Simpson trial, which underscored divisive racial attitudes in American society, the Gucci trial highlighted the chasm separating wealthy from poor in Italy." An epic story told in epic detail. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.