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1997 – before and after: The story of the assassination of Gianni Versace
Vulgar Favours
What you need to know before your trail
A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life.
The basis for American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin, this is the unforgettable account of a sociopath, his savage crimes, and the devastation he left in his wake.
In the glamorous and hedonistic fashion world in the 1990s there was one world-famous name that everyone knew – Gianni Versace. Vulgar Favours details the events that led to his murder at the hands of Andrew Cunanan on July 15th, 1997.
Travel Guide
Cunnanan’s trail of murder
This is the trail of a serial killer – of the man who killed the fashion designer Gianni Versace as well as many other men on a killing spree which took him from San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago and just outside Philadelphia before heading to Miami where he shot Gianni Versace on the stairs of his mansion.
The mansion is now a restaurant and hotel . Gianni would walk from his home here to collect the newspapers and magazines from Italy. It was just along here where Andrew Cunnanan stayed in a motel whilst waiting for the perfect opportunity to carry out his crime.
The killing spree started with
Cunanan’s killing spree began in Minneapolis on April 27, 1997, with the murder of his close friend Jeffrey Trail, a former US Navy officer . He was murdrered in a loft apartment belonging to architect David Madson.
Madson, who had once been Cunanan’s lover, was his second murder victim; his body was found on the east shore of Rush Lake near Rush City, Minnesota, on May 3, 1997.
Cunanan next drove to Chicago and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer, on May 4, 1997.
Five days later, Cunanan, who had taken Miglin’s car, found his fourth victim in Pennsville, New Jersey, at Finn’s Point National Cemetery. Cunanan shot and killed 45-year-old caretaker William Reese.
Cunnan stole Reese’s truck and headed to Miami Beach, Florida, where he stayed for some time before committing his fifth and final murder – that of Gianni Versace.
The focus of this book is however not so much Gianni but the world Andrew lived in – the world of drugs, gay clubs, gay sex, the gay scene of the 1990s and the dull shine of the beauty/fashion industry, the gleam of wealth that attracted people like Cunnanan
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Vulgar Favours
Destination : Miami, Minnesota, Chicago,Minneapolis Author/Guide: Maureen Orth Departure Time:199os, 1997
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