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\"Fashion
Among those who care about such stuff, Gianni Versace was a legend. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A guy like me penning commentary on fashion would be like Chuck Schumer discussing ballistic coefficients. However, in the brutal murder of fashion icon, Gianni Versace, we get a peek into a particularly dark and sordid world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Victim<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
Versace grew up in his mother\u2019s dress shop. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gianni Versace was born in December 1946\nin Reggio Calabria, Italy. Italy was clawing its way out of a world war, and\nGianni\u2019s family struggled to stay afloat. Versace\u2019s mother,\nFrancesca, was a local dressmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Versace\u2019s fashion empire eventually spanned the globe. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gianni had three siblings, one of whom\nsuccumbed to a tetanus infection at age 12. Versace was consumed with ancient\nGreek history and began an apprenticeship in his mother\u2019s dressmaking shop\nat a young age. At 26 he moved to Milan. A year later he released his first fashion\nline. In 1978 he opened the first of 130 signature boutiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
I know I\u2019m an unwashed redneck, but I just don\u2019t get it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To a Philistine like me, high fashion seems a lot like expensive wine\u2014pretentious, over-rated, self-important, and dull. However, some of the commentaries are genuinely entertaining. Fashion folk apparently take themselves very seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Apparently this is \u201cluxurious classicism with overt sexuality.\u201d Who knew? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His aesthetic \u201ccombined luxurious classicism with overt sexuality\u201d whatever that actually means. I remember clothes from the 1970s. They could foment blindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Gianni Versace\u2019s world was nothing if not flamboyant. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He showed \u201cbrazen defiance of the rules of fashion\u201d and once opined \u201cI don\u2019t believe in good taste.\u201d Versace had an ongoing feud with Giorgio Armani. It was said that \u201cArmani dresses the wife. Versace dresses the mistress.\u201d That I can sort of visualize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Versace marketed lots of stuff other than just clothes. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By 1997 Versace\u2019s fashion empire\nwas worth a cool $807 million. He hawked jewelry, textiles, home furnishings,\nchina, and housewares. Gianni Versace ran with the likes of Elton John, Paul\nMcCartney, Tupac, Eric Clapton, the Notorious B.I.G., and Princess Diana.\nVersace was credited with inventing the supermodel, something for which I\u2019m not altogether\ncertain we should be grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
This is where Gianni Versace hung his hat in 1997. Not too shabby. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 1997, Versace was fifty years old and living with his partner Antonio D\u2019Amico in his sprawling mansion in Miami Beach, Florida. Aside from having developed a form of ear cancer Versace was, in the eyes of the world at least, living the dream. Rich, sought after, venerated, and surrounded by sycophants both famous and beautiful, Gianni Versace was at the pinnacle of his uniquely vain profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Darker Form of Chaos<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
This guy grew up to become a genuine piece of work. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Phillip Cunanan was born in\nNational City, California, in the summer of 1969 and was clearly just not wired\ncorrectly. Andrew had an IQ of 147, higher than 99.9% of the general population.\nA serial liar with a penchant for changing his appearance on a whim, he was\nvoted by his high school peers \u201cleast likely to be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Though they look like normal people, those afflicted with Antisocial Personality Disorder almost inevitably end up in prison or worse, perhaps even seeking public office. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The formal diagnosis for Cunanan\u2019s curious malady is\nAntisocial Personality Disorder. I saw a few of these in medical school, and\nthey were a wonder to behold. Think of it like the congenital absence of\nconscience. He once threw his mother against a wall during an argument and\ndislocated her shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Andrew Cunanan plied his guile, greed, and good looks into a comfortable life of decadence and debauchery. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cunanan moved from place to place living off of the generosity of older gay men. When he was between benefactors, he dealt drugs and created violent sadomasochistic gay pornography. Andrew was also known to have a taste for methamphetamine. Cunanan\u2019s mom referred to her son as a \u201chigh-class homosexual prostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
The Versace family denies that Gianni and Andrew ever met. However, the two did frequent the same sorts of places. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is suspected that Cunanan met Versace\nin October of 1990 in San Francisco, though the details of their encounter are\nunknown. Both men ran in the same sex-for-hire circles in both Miami and San\nFrancisco. By 1997 Andrew Cunanan had burned most of his bridges and found his\nlife spiraling out of control. He traveled to Minneapolis to meet with a former\nNaval officer turned propane salesman friend named Jeffrey Trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unleashing the Beast<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
Jeffrey Trail was an Annapolis graduate and Cunanan\u2019s first victim. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In April of 1997 as Cunanan was making plans to leave California his friends were growing afraid of him. Two days after arriving in Minneapolis, Cunanan had a heated argument with Trail and beat him to death with a claw hammer, leaving the young man\u2019s body wrapped in a carpet in the home of a former boyfriend named David Madson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
David Madson was a former consort of Cunanan\u2019s killed with a gun stolen from Jeffrey Trail. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Six days later Madson\u2019s body was\ndiscovered near Rush Lake in Minnesota with .40-caliber gunshot wounds to the back\nand head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Lee Miglin\u2019s connection to Cunanan is hopelessly murky. After this particularly gruesome killing Cunanan looted the fridge and kicked back with a sandwich. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cunanan then traveled to Chicago and kidnapped 72-year-old real estate developer Lee Miglin, a married father of two. Cunanan bound the man with duct tape and tortured him to death, stabbing him more than twenty times with a screwdriver before cutting his throat with a gardener\u2019s bow saw. No one has found any prior connection between the men. Afterward, Cunanan went into the Miglin home and made himself a ham sandwich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
William Reese was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. He died for his pickup truck. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cunanan stole Miglin\u2019s car but saw it referenced on a television program. He, therefore, shot a 45-year-old cemetery caretaker named William Reese in Pennsville Township, New Jersey, and stole his pickup. Cunanan then drove to Miami Beach and lived under his own name for two months, pawning stolen property and driving Reese\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Versace Killing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
Versace died on the steps of his opulent South Florida mansion. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace left his palatial estate to walk down the street to a nearby coffee shop for breakfast and the local newspaper. As he returned home and ascended the steps of his mansion, Andrew Cunanan approached him from behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
While the details are disputed, it is clear that Versace\u2019s killing was both close range and pitiless. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Witness reports diverge at this point. Some say the two men argued over a parcel of some sort. Others say Versace never knew the younger man was there. Regardless, Cunanan shot Versace twice in the back of the head execution-style with a Taurus PT-100 .40-caliber handgun he had taken from his first victim, Jeffrey Trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gun<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
The Taurus PT-92 has long been considered a less expensive alternative to the Beretta that inspired it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1974 Beretta set up a factory in Sao\nPaulo, Brazil, to build pistols for the Brazilian military. The Brazilian gun\nmaker Taurus purchased this facility six years later. Taurus then began producing\ncopies of the 9mm Beretta 92. As the original patents had expired they could\nproduce these guns without paying royalties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
The Taurus PT-series comes in a variety of flavors. The squared-off trigger guard found on the military M9 started here. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The original 9mm PT-92 featured the classic Beretta open-slide design along with its single-action\/double-action mechanism. The PT-92 introduced the squared-off trigger guard that was subsequently adopted on the familiar Beretta 92F\/M9 guns. These pistols fed from 15-round box magazines and featured a frame-mounted manual safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
The .40-caliber PT-100 is a rugged and effective combat tool. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This gun in .40 S&W comes in two\nvariations. The fixed sight variant sporting 3-dot sights is titled the PT-100.\nThe same gun with adjustable sights is the PT101. Both guns feed from 11-round\nbox magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Taurus pistols have seen widespread use around the globe. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Taurus PT pistols are typically a little\ncheaper than their Beretta counterparts, yet they seem to be of impeccable\nquality. The examples I have run would compare favorably to their Beretta\nforebears. The argument could be made that the thumb-activated manual safety is\nmore practical than the slide-mounted version on the Beretta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Death of a Monster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
Apparently, at the end Andrew Cunanan still considered escape. He held a passport from Sealand, an odd entity that bills itself as the world\u2019s smallest country. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Police investigating Versace\u2019s murder found\nReese\u2019s abandoned vehicle in a nearby parking garage. Inside were some of\nCunanan\u2019s clothes, newspaper clippings of his previous murders, and a Sealand\npassport. Sealand is itself a bizarre place claiming to be the world\u2019s smallest independent\ncountry. Established on a disused WW2-era antiaircraft platform in the North\nSea, Sealand issues travel documents but is not formally recognized by any of\nthe world\u2019s traditional governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
This is where Andrew Cunanan met his gory end. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eight days after the Versace murder, the caretaker of a large houseboat moored not far from the site of the killing reported hearing a gunshot. Police eventually breached the facility to find Andrew Cunanan dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the mouth. He had used the same .40-caliber weapon he had stolen from Jeffrey Trail and subsequently employed in the Versace killing. He left behind no suicide note and scant personal belongings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denouement<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
Gianni Versace had some undeniably rarefied friends. Here he is seen alongside Andy Warhol. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This story was just a wretched mess. Gianni Versace had everything his world could offer. At least from my poorly bred perspective, his profession was vapid and frivolous, and his travails were the very embodiment of first-world problems. In a life populated by supermodels and celebrities, the levels of vanity and self-absorption can indeed be prodigious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Versace\u2019s funeral was itself an A-list event. From left to right are Sting, somebody I don\u2019t recognize, Princess Di, and Elton John. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2,000 people attended Gianni Versace\u2019s funeral in Milan.\nElton John and Sting performed. Princess Diana was there, though she was\nherself killed just over a month later in an infamous traffic accident at age\n36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Donatella Versace took over the primary design duties. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Versace fashion empire passed on to Gianni\u2019s family. His brother Santo became CEO, while his sister Donatella became head of design. In his will, Gianni left half of his holdings to his niece Allegra Versace. She formally took control of roughly $500 million in assets in 2004 on her 18th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
We will likely never know for certain what drove Andrew Cunanan to become a cold-blooded serial killer. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Cunanan was a sociopath pure and simple. Authorities are vexed as regards to what drove him to kill in the first place and then why he chose his victims as he did. Trail and Madson were former lovers, and Cunanan was unambiguously crazy. However, his connection to Miglin was murky, and he apparently killed Reese simply to get his truck. Cunanan took his true feelings toward Gianni Versace with him to the grave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Throughout his life Andrew Cunanan coveted fame. In death he finally found it. He was briefly counted among the FBI\u2019s most wanted fugitives. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a world of lust, greed, vanity, and\nwealth one twisted young man\u2019s unhinged trail of death led to the\ndoorstep of fashion\u2019s greatest modern icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fashion
Gianni Versace certainly surrounded himself with nice furnishings. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fashion
Despite the death of its namesake, the Versace fashion empire lives on. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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