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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa000.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://people.com/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://people.com/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864","crawl_time":1774688071,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,people!\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864 s443","src_root_hash":"8987252745502061200","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Where Is Patrizia Reggiani Now? Inside Her Life After Killing Ex Maurizio Gucci","meta_descriptions":["Patrizia Reggiani spent 18 years in jail for hiring a hitman to murder her ex-husband, fashion mogul Maurizio Gucci. Here’s everything to know about where Patrizia Reggiani is now."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022.\nCredit :\nIpa\/Shutterstock ; Mimmo Carriero-\/IPA\/Shutterstock\nNEED TO KNOW\nPatrizia Reggiani married Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci in 1972, though they eventually divorced\nIn 1995, Gucci was killed by a hitman who was hired by Reggiani\nShe served 18 years in prison for murder before being released in 2016\nPatrizia Reggiani\nwent from being known as Lady Gucci to “La Vedova Nera” — the Black Widow.\nThe Italian socialite became one-half of a fashion power couple when she married\nMaurizio Gucci\n, the heir to the Gucci brand, in 1972. The couple went on to live a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, complete with homes in New York and Milan and vacations aboard their mega-yacht. They welcomed two daughters together, Alessandra and Allegra.\nHowever, their marriage eventually soured. In 1985, Maurizio\nwalked out on her\n, and in 1993, mounting debts forced him to sell Gucci to a Bahrain-based investment firm.\n“I was angry with Maurizio about many, many things at that time,” Patrizia told\nThe Guardian\nin 2016. “But above all, this. Losing the family business. It was stupid. It was a failure. I was filled with rage, but there was nothing I could do.”\nBut then, on March 27, 1995 — one year after their divorce was finalized —\nMaurizio was shot dead by a hitman\nwhile walking into his Milan office. Two years later, Patrizia was arrested and charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire — changing her persona from “Lady Gucci” to the “Black Widow.”\nShe was convicted of premeditated murder in 1998 and sentenced to 29 years in prison.\nSo where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Here’s everything to know about her life after serving time in prison for the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci.\nWho is Patrizia Reggiani?\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s.\nIpa\/Shutterstock\nPatrizia was born on Dec. 2, 1948, in Vignola, Italy. According to\nTIME\n, she grew up poor, and her biological father was not in the picture. But when Patrizia was 12, her mother married a wealthy entrepreneur named Ferdinando Reggiani, who adopted Patrizia as his own.\nFrom that point on, Patrizia lived an affluent lifestyle, her stepfather spoiling her with fur coats and luxury cars,\nThe Guardian\nreported.\nShe became a socialite in Milan but had difficulty breaking into the most elite circles, according to TIME, until she met Maurizio — the heir to the house of Gucci — at a party in 1970.\nHow long were Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci married?\nPatrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.\nIndependent Photo Agency\/Alamy\nAfter a two-year courtship, Patrizia and Maurizio married on Oct. 28, 1972, in Milan. The fashion power couple became fixtures in both Milan and Manhattan’s social scene, frequently socializing with\nJackie Kennedy Onassis\nand other members of the Kennedy clan.\nTheir luxurious lifestyle didn’t stop there: Patrizia and Maurizio were chauffeured around Manhattan in a vehicle notorious for its vanity plate, which read “Mauizia.”\nThey owned multiple vacation homes, including a ski chalet in St. Moritz, a getaway in Mexico and a farm in Connecticut, according to\nThe Guardian\n. Maurizio even purchased a yacht following Allegra’s birth, and the family used it to travel to private islands.\n“We were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course,” Patrizia told\nThe Guardian\nin 2016.\nBut that all changed abruptly in 1985, when Maurizio told Patrizia he was traveling for a business trip — and never returned. Instead, he sent a friend to tell Patrizia that their marriage was over. Their divorce was made official nearly a decade later, in 1994.\nThe divorce was so lengthy, in part, because Patrizia refused to settle. When Maurizio offered to pay her 2.5 million euros plus 650,000 euros in yearly alimony, Patrizia rejected the deal — referring to the amount as “a mere bowl of lentils,”\nThe Guardian\nreported.\nIn their final settlement, Maurizio agreed to pay his ex-wife $1.5 million a year for the rest of her life, among other conditions, according to\nThe Telegraph\n.\nOne of those conditions involved Patrizia losing her most precious asset: The legal right to use the Gucci name. Patrizia’s close friend, Pina Auriemma, told\nDateline\nthat the former Lady Gucci was “more sad and sorry about losing her name” than losing her husband.\nAt the time of their divorce, Patrizia was also reportedly bitter over Maurizio’s business dealings (he lost the family business, selling Gucci to Investcorp in 1993 for $120 million, according to\nThe Guardian\n) and his personal life (Maurizio had a new, live-in girlfriend, Paola Franchi).\n“Patrizia was stalking us,” Franchi told\nThe Guardian\n. “She called many times abusing him and threatening to kill him.”\nWhat happened to Maurizio Gucci?\nMaurizio Gucci in the 80s.\nIpa\/Shutterstock\nAs Maurizio walked into his Milan office building on the morning of March 27, 1995, a well-dressed hired hitman fired two shots — hitting the fashion mogul in the back and shoulder. The gunman then fatally shot Maurizio in the face before fleeing the scene.\n“It was clearly a premeditated murder,” Italian police Maj. Paolo La Forgia told PEOPLE about Maurizio’s death.\nPatrizia's actions after his death raised some red flags, including filing a legal claim within three hours of Maurizio’s murder to have his girlfriend Franchi removed from the apartment they shared,\nThe Guardian\nreported.\n“I was very happy because all my problems were gone,” Patrizia later said on\nPeople Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion\nin 2018.\nHowever, at the time, police had nothing to tie Patrizia to the crime — and the investigation stalled for more than a year.\nWhat was Patrizia Reggiani convicted of?\nPatrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.\nSipa\/Shutterstock\nPatrizia was arrested in January 1997, after an anonymous caller tipped off police that an accomplice had bragged about arranging Maurizio’s murder with Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s best friend and psychic.\nThe tip led authorities to launch a sting operation where Patrizia and her four accomplices — Auriemma, a friend of her's who hired the hitman, the getaway driver and the hitman himself — eventually discussed the crime on wiretapped phones,\nThe Guardian\nreported.\nThe trial of Patrizia and her accomplices began in May 1998. Patrizia’s lawyers claimed that she was mentally unstable due to a 1992 operation on a brain tumor, according to\nThe New York Times\n.\nHer lawyers also alleged that it was Auriemma who had hired the hitman and then blackmailed Patrizia into keeping quiet.\nIn November 1998, after a five-month trial, Patrizia and her four accomplices were found guilty of premeditated murder. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison.\nWhere is Patrizia Reggiani now?\nPatrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.\nMimmo Carriero\/IPA\/Shutterstock\nPatrizia had her first opportunity to be released from prison in 2011 — but declined, since a condition of her parole was getting a job.\n“I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she reportedly told her lawyer, per\nThe Guardian\n.\nBut by 2014, Patrizia had a change of heart and revealed she was willing to work at Gucci, of all places. That year, she told Italy’s\nLa Repubblica\nnewspaper that she was available to work and hoped to return to her ex-husband’s former company.\n“They need me,” she said, per\nThe Guardian\n. “I still feel like a Gucci — in fact, the most Gucci of them all.”\nPatrizia did not end up working at Gucci, however. Instead, in April 2014, she was granted day release from prison and took a parole job as a design consultant for Bozart, a costume jewelry firm based in Milan, according to\nThe Guardian\n.\nBy October 2016, Patrizia had finished her parole on credit for good behavior and was officially free from prison. She had served 18 years of her reduced 26-year sentence and was 67 years old. Upon her release, she went to live in a Milan townhouse with her mother, who later died in 2019.\nThough Patrizia has maintained that she was wrongfully convicted, her statements to the press over the years leave cause for confusion.\nOne such statement came in 2014, when a camera crew from an Italian reality television show stopped Patrizia outside her workplace and asked her why she hired a hitman and didn’t shoot Maurizio herself.\n“My eyesight is not so good,” Patrizia infamously responded, per\nThe Guardian\n. “I didn’t want to miss.”\nDid Patrizia Reggiani receive money from Gucci's estate?\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s.\nIpa\/Shutterstock\nAn Italian court ruled in February 2017 that, despite being convicted of her husband’s murder, Patrizia was still entitled to receive more than $1 million annually from Maurizio’s estate,\nThe Telegraph\nreported.\nThe appeals court ruled in favor of Patrizia due to an agreement that Maurizio signed in 1993, two years prior to his death. In addition to the annual payments, Patrizia was also entitled to back payments for the 18 years she spent in prison, which totaled more than $20 million.\nThe payments to Patrizia come from her late ex-husband’s estate, which is managed by her daughters.\nWhat did Patrizia Reggiani think of\nHouse of Gucci\n?\nLady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.\nFabio Lovino\/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture\nAdam Driver\nand\nLady Gaga\nbrought the story of Maurizio’s murder and Patrizia’s arrest to life on the big screen in 2021’s\nHouse of Gucci\n. The film received critical praise and\naward nominations\n— but Patrizia was not pleased, particularly with Lady Gaga.\n“I’m\nannoyed by the fact that Lady Gaga is portraying me\nin the new Ridley Scott film without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me,” Patrizia told\nAnsa\n, the Italian national news agency, ahead of the film’s release.\nShe continued, “It’s nothing to do with money because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film. It’s about common sense and respect.”\n\"I believe that any good actor should first get to know the person that they are meant to be playing,\" Reggiani said, adding, \"I think it is not right that I wasn't contacted. And I say this with all the sympathy and appreciation that I have for her.\"","attrs_markdown":"\n\n[Skip to content](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864#main)\n\n[PEOPLE](https:\/\/people.com\/)\n\n- Please fill out this field.\n- [Log In](https:\/\/people.com\/authentication\/login?regSource=26075&relativeRedirectUrl=%2Fwhere-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864)\n- My Account\n  - [Log Out](https:\/\/people.com\/authentication\/logout?relativeRedirectUrl=%2Fwhere-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864)\n- Magazine\n  - [Subscribe](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864)\n  - [Manage Your Subscription](https:\/\/w1.buysub.com\/servlet\/CSGateway?cds_mag_code=PPL)\n  - [Give a Gift Subscription](https:\/\/www.magazines.com\/people-magazine.html)\n  - [Get Help](https:\/\/people.com\/about-us-page-5499056#toc-contact-us)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864)\n- [Sweepstakes](https:\/\/people.com\/sweepstakes)\n- [Subscribe](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864)\n\nPlease fill out this field.\n\n- [Entertainment](https:\/\/people.com\/entertainment\/)\n  Entertainment\n  \n  - 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Her work has previously appeared in GLAMOUR, Vanity Fair, Teen Vogue, Allure and more.\n\n[People Editorial Guidelines](https:\/\/people.com\/editorial-policy-page-5499057)\n\nPublished on March 27, 2026 06:30AM EDT\n\n[3 Comments](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864#comments)\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/imjozuTZ89X-NjjOc0rP_1vheTc=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$988x423:990x425\$\/patrizia-reggiani-then-and-now-032526-1bc984cb06aa49768a6b43ff135fe312.jpg)\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/imjozuTZ89X-NjjOc0rP_1vheTc=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$988x423:990x425\$\/patrizia-reggiani-then-and-now-032526-1bc984cb06aa49768a6b43ff135fe312.jpg)\n\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022.\n\nCredit :\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock ; Mimmo Carriero-\/IPA\/Shutterstock\n\n### NEED TO KNOW\n- Patrizia Reggiani married Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci in 1972, though they eventually divorced\n- In 1995, Gucci was killed by a hitman who was hired by Reggiani\n- She served 18 years in prison for murder before being released in 2016\n\n[Patrizia Reggiani](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/maurizio-gucci-death-ex-wife-patrizia-reggiani-speaks\/) went from being known as Lady Gucci to “La Vedova Nera” — the Black Widow.\n\nThe Italian socialite became one-half of a fashion power couple when she married [Maurizio Gucci](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/behind-investigation-maurizio-gucci-murder\/), the heir to the Gucci brand, in 1972. The couple went on to live a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, complete with homes in New York and Milan and vacations aboard their mega-yacht. They welcomed two daughters together, Alessandra and Allegra.\n\nHowever, their marriage eventually soured. In 1985, Maurizio [walked out on her](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/how-turbulent-marriage-in-house-of-gucci-led-to-murder\/), and in 1993, mounting debts forced him to sell Gucci to a Bahrain-based investment firm.\n\n“I was angry with Maurizio about many, many things at that time,” Patrizia told [*The Guardian*](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2016\/jul\/24\/the-gucci-wife-and-the-hitman-fashions-darkest-tale) in 2016. “But above all, this. Losing the family business. It was stupid. It was a failure. I was filled with rage, but there was nothing I could do.”\n\nBut then, on March 27, 1995 — one year after their divorce was finalized — [Maurizio was shot dead by a hitman](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/inside-hitman-murdered-maurizio-gucci-death\/) while walking into his Milan office. Two years later, Patrizia was arrested and charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire — changing her persona from “Lady Gucci” to the “Black Widow.”\n\nShe was convicted of premeditated murder in 1998 and sentenced to 29 years in prison.\n\nSo where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Here’s everything to know about her life after serving time in prison for the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci.\n\n## Who is Patrizia Reggiani?\n![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.]()\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/W2_DG_H6E8Fg5KyBfMmYMzXMUyA=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$506x337:508x339\$\/patrizia-reggiani-1980s-032526-ee6387efca274405833bc405a5fcfcaa.jpg)\n\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s.\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock\n\nPatrizia was born on Dec. 2, 1948, in Vignola, Italy. According to [TIME](https:\/\/time.com\/6122130\/house-of-gucci-true-story\/), she grew up poor, and her biological father was not in the picture. But when Patrizia was 12, her mother married a wealthy entrepreneur named Ferdinando Reggiani, who adopted Patrizia as his own.\n\nFrom that point on, Patrizia lived an affluent lifestyle, her stepfather spoiling her with fur coats and luxury cars, *The Guardian* reported.\n\nShe became a socialite in Milan but had difficulty breaking into the most elite circles, according to TIME, until she met Maurizio — the heir to the house of Gucci — at a party in 1970.\n\n## How long were Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci married?\n![Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.]()\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/HfFrYq8jDjeBosVV0EiJ7EoYtV4=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$547x401:549x403\$\/patrizia-reggiani-maurizio-gucci-032526-b976d9e747d342e7babb7dd93ffecb06.jpg)\n\nPatrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.\n\nIndependent Photo Agency\/Alamy\n\nAfter a two-year courtship, Patrizia and Maurizio married on Oct. 28, 1972, in Milan. The fashion power couple became fixtures in both Milan and Manhattan’s social scene, frequently socializing with [Jackie Kennedy Onassis](https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jackie-kennedy\/) and other members of the Kennedy clan.\n\nTheir luxurious lifestyle didn’t stop there: Patrizia and Maurizio were chauffeured around Manhattan in a vehicle notorious for its vanity plate, which read “Mauizia.”\n\nThey owned multiple vacation homes, including a ski chalet in St. Moritz, a getaway in Mexico and a farm in Connecticut, according to *The Guardian*. Maurizio even purchased a yacht following Allegra’s birth, and the family used it to travel to private islands.\n\n“We were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course,” Patrizia told *The Guardian* in 2016.\n\nBut that all changed abruptly in 1985, when Maurizio told Patrizia he was traveling for a business trip — and never returned. Instead, he sent a friend to tell Patrizia that their marriage was over. Their divorce was made official nearly a decade later, in 1994.\n\nThe divorce was so lengthy, in part, because Patrizia refused to settle. When Maurizio offered to pay her 2.5 million euros plus 650,000 euros in yearly alimony, Patrizia rejected the deal — referring to the amount as “a mere bowl of lentils,” *The Guardian* reported.\n\nIn their final settlement, Maurizio agreed to pay his ex-wife \\$1.5 million a year for the rest of her life, among other conditions, according to [*The Telegraph*](https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/gucci-black-widow-is-awarded-gucci-fortune-by-court).\n\nOne of those conditions involved Patrizia losing her most precious asset: The legal right to use the Gucci name. Patrizia’s close friend, Pina Auriemma, told *Dateline* that the former Lady Gucci was “more sad and sorry about losing her name” than losing her husband.\n\nAt the time of their divorce, Patrizia was also reportedly bitter over Maurizio’s business dealings (he lost the family business, selling Gucci to Investcorp in 1993 for \\$120 million, according to *The Guardian*) and his personal life (Maurizio had a new, live-in girlfriend, Paola Franchi).\n\n“Patrizia was stalking us,” Franchi told *The Guardian*. “She called many times abusing him and threatening to kill him.”\n\n## What happened to Maurizio Gucci?\n![Maurizio Gucci in the 80s.]()\n\n![Maurizio Gucci in the 80s.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/mlZVz9gN5nAi3UJlZXw3umVjSpQ=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$519x342:521x344\$\/maurizio-gucci-1980s-032526-b2ca904f26884a84b427a11e244e9c03.jpg)\n\nMaurizio Gucci in the 80s.\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock\n\nAs Maurizio walked into his Milan office building on the morning of March 27, 1995, a well-dressed hired hitman fired two shots — hitting the fashion mogul in the back and shoulder. The gunman then fatally shot Maurizio in the face before fleeing the scene.\n\n“It was clearly a premeditated murder,” Italian police Maj. Paolo La Forgia told PEOPLE about Maurizio’s death.\n\nPatrizia's actions after his death raised some red flags, including filing a legal claim within three hours of Maurizio’s murder to have his girlfriend Franchi removed from the apartment they shared, *The Guardian* reported.\n\n“I was very happy because all my problems were gone,” Patrizia later said on *People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion* in 2018.\n\nHowever, at the time, police had nothing to tie Patrizia to the crime — and the investigation stalled for more than a year.\n\n## What was Patrizia Reggiani convicted of?\n![Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.]()\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/582Vl2TY5ZSgK3n92rqAGu2xVg0=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$509x369:511x371\$\/patrizia-reggiani-court-032526-3fdd4ff4389e4685a5a59b4d5ddc0081.jpg)\n\nPatrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.\n\nSipa\/Shutterstock\n\nPatrizia was arrested in January 1997, after an anonymous caller tipped off police that an accomplice had bragged about arranging Maurizio’s murder with Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s best friend and psychic.\n\nThe tip led authorities to launch a sting operation where Patrizia and her four accomplices — Auriemma, a friend of her's who hired the hitman, the getaway driver and the hitman himself — eventually discussed the crime on wiretapped phones, *The Guardian* reported.\n\nThe trial of Patrizia and her accomplices began in May 1998. Patrizia’s lawyers claimed that she was mentally unstable due to a 1992 operation on a brain tumor, according to [*The New York Times*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/05\/20\/world\/milan-journal-the-black-widow-goes-on-trial-in-gucci-slaying.html).\n\nHer lawyers also alleged that it was Auriemma who had hired the hitman and then blackmailed Patrizia into keeping quiet.\n\nIn November 1998, after a five-month trial, Patrizia and her four accomplices were found guilty of premeditated murder. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison.\n\n## Where is Patrizia Reggiani now?\n![Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.]()\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/rkjxWQJ7NCA4E8M1FrsdihIiOlQ=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$472x342:474x344\$\/patrizia-reggiani-milan-italy-032526-cf56ae2df5f2463ea4bed51a2c49a197.jpg)\n\nPatrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.\n\nMimmo Carriero\/IPA\/Shutterstock\n\nPatrizia had her first opportunity to be released from prison in 2011 — but declined, since a condition of her parole was getting a job.\n\n“I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she reportedly told her lawyer, per *The Guardian*.\n\nBut by 2014, Patrizia had a change of heart and revealed she was willing to work at Gucci, of all places. That year, she told Italy’s *La Repubblica* newspaper that she was available to work and hoped to return to her ex-husband’s former company.\n\n“They need me,” she said, per *The Guardian*. “I still feel like a Gucci — in fact, the most Gucci of them all.”\n\nPatrizia did not end up working at Gucci, however. Instead, in April 2014, she was granted day release from prison and took a parole job as a design consultant for Bozart, a costume jewelry firm based in Milan, according to *The Guardian*.\n\nBy October 2016, Patrizia had finished her parole on credit for good behavior and was officially free from prison. She had served 18 years of her reduced 26-year sentence and was 67 years old. Upon her release, she went to live in a Milan townhouse with her mother, who later died in 2019.\n\nThough Patrizia has maintained that she was wrongfully convicted, her statements to the press over the years leave cause for confusion.\n\nOne such statement came in 2014, when a camera crew from an Italian reality television show stopped Patrizia outside her workplace and asked her why she hired a hitman and didn’t shoot Maurizio herself.\n\n“My eyesight is not so good,” Patrizia infamously responded, per *The Guardian*. “I didn’t want to miss.”\n\n## Did Patrizia Reggiani receive money from Gucci's estate?\n![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.]()\n\n![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/G8QHOL3_K9yH6ls2kzuYJVG2fjk=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$479x319:481x321\$\/patrizia-reggiani-1980s-2-032526-a2feccaa6e0b45bab4f80ed428591ed1.jpg)\n\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s.\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock\n\nAn Italian court ruled in February 2017 that, despite being convicted of her husband’s murder, Patrizia was still entitled to receive more than \\$1 million annually from Maurizio’s estate, *The Telegraph* reported.\n\nThe appeals court ruled in favor of Patrizia due to an agreement that Maurizio signed in 1993, two years prior to his death. In addition to the annual payments, Patrizia was also entitled to back payments for the 18 years she spent in prison, which totaled more than \\$20 million.\n\nThe payments to Patrizia come from her late ex-husband’s estate, which is managed by her daughters.\n\n## What did Patrizia Reggiani think of *House of Gucci*?\n![Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.]()\n\n![Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/-VZgjmpmO3a0slSylLMNy-sBQn8=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$959x292:961x294\$\/house-of-gucci-2-eeb4c71bf86f44f7a9d1df9164a5e905.jpg)\n\nLady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.\n\nFabio Lovino\/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture\n\n[Adam Driver](https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/adam-driver\/) and [Lady Gaga](https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/lady-gaga\/) brought the story of Maurizio’s murder and Patrizia’s arrest to life on the big screen in 2021’s [*House of Gucci*](https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/lady-gaga-has-never-had-a-better-movie-experience-than-making-house-of-gucci-with-ridley-scott\/). The film received critical praise and [award nominations](https:\/\/people.com\/style\/sag-awards-2022-lady-gaga-plunging-armani-gown\/) — but Patrizia was not pleased, particularly with Lady Gaga.\n\n“I’m [annoyed by the fact that Lady Gaga is portraying me](https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/patrizia-reggiani-says-shes-annoyed-lady-gaga-didnt-meet-her-before-portraying-her-in-upcoming-movie\/) in the new Ridley Scott film without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me,” Patrizia told [*Ansa*](https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/lifestyle\/arts\/2021\/03\/11\/gucci-black-widow-miffed-by-lady-gaga-snub_3a95687b-2439-4fdb-8945-b19d3c067992.html), the Italian national news agency, ahead of the film’s release.\n\nShe continued, “It’s nothing to do with money because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film. It’s about common sense and respect.”\n\n\"I believe that any good actor should first get to know the person that they are meant to be playing,\" Reggiani said, adding, \"I think it is not right that I wasn't contacted. And I say this with all the sympathy and appreciation that I have for her.\"\n\nClose\n\n[Leave a Comment](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864#comments)\n\nRead more:\n\n- [Crime](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/)\n- [Crime History](https:\/\/people.com\/crime-history)\n\nTrending Now\n\n[![Rodney Metzer.]() ![Rodney Metzer.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/S87RY2__F07wUZHrt8Ri-L_Dgn8=\/343x228\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$\/rodney-metzer-032326-874d3df39a2042a6a656c73b92628ded.jpg) Where Is Rodney Metzer Now? Inside His Life After He Attacked His Ex-Wife in Disguise](https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-rodney-metzer-now-11932372)\n\n[Crime](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/)\n\n3 days ago\n\n[![American Nightmare. 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The couple went on to live a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, complete with homes in New York and Milan and vacations aboard their mega-yacht. They welcomed two daughters together, Alessandra and Allegra.\n\nHowever, their marriage eventually soured. In 1985, Maurizio [walked out on her](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/how-turbulent-marriage-in-house-of-gucci-led-to-murder\/), and in 1993, mounting debts forced him to sell Gucci to a Bahrain-based investment firm.\n\n“I was angry with Maurizio about many, many things at that time,” Patrizia told [*The Guardian*](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2016\/jul\/24\/the-gucci-wife-and-the-hitman-fashions-darkest-tale) in 2016. “But above all, this. Losing the family business. It was stupid. It was a failure. I was filled with rage, but there was nothing I could do.”\n\nBut then, on March 27, 1995 — one year after their divorce was finalized — [Maurizio was shot dead by a hitman](https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/inside-hitman-murdered-maurizio-gucci-death\/) while walking into his Milan office. Two years later, Patrizia was arrested and charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire — changing her persona from “Lady Gucci” to the “Black Widow.”\n\nShe was convicted of premeditated murder in 1998 and sentenced to 29 years in prison.\n\nSo where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Here’s everything to know about her life after serving time in prison for the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci.\n\n## Who is Patrizia Reggiani?\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s.\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock\n\nPatrizia was born on Dec. 2, 1948, in Vignola, Italy. According to [TIME](https:\/\/time.com\/6122130\/house-of-gucci-true-story\/), she grew up poor, and her biological father was not in the picture. But when Patrizia was 12, her mother married a wealthy entrepreneur named Ferdinando Reggiani, who adopted Patrizia as his own.\n\nFrom that point on, Patrizia lived an affluent lifestyle, her stepfather spoiling her with fur coats and luxury cars, *The Guardian* reported.\n\nShe became a socialite in Milan but had difficulty breaking into the most elite circles, according to TIME, until she met Maurizio — the heir to the house of Gucci — at a party in 1970.\n\n## How long were Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci married?\nPatrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.\n\nIndependent Photo Agency\/Alamy\n\nAfter a two-year courtship, Patrizia and Maurizio married on Oct. 28, 1972, in Milan. The fashion power couple became fixtures in both Milan and Manhattan’s social scene, frequently socializing with [Jackie Kennedy Onassis](https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jackie-kennedy\/) and other members of the Kennedy clan.\n\nTheir luxurious lifestyle didn’t stop there: Patrizia and Maurizio were chauffeured around Manhattan in a vehicle notorious for its vanity plate, which read “Mauizia.”\n\nThey owned multiple vacation homes, including a ski chalet in St. Moritz, a getaway in Mexico and a farm in Connecticut, according to *The Guardian*. Maurizio even purchased a yacht following Allegra’s birth, and the family used it to travel to private islands.\n\n“We were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course,” Patrizia told *The Guardian* in 2016.\n\nBut that all changed abruptly in 1985, when Maurizio told Patrizia he was traveling for a business trip — and never returned. Instead, he sent a friend to tell Patrizia that their marriage was over. Their divorce was made official nearly a decade later, in 1994.\n\nThe divorce was so lengthy, in part, because Patrizia refused to settle. When Maurizio offered to pay her 2.5 million euros plus 650,000 euros in yearly alimony, Patrizia rejected the deal — referring to the amount as “a mere bowl of lentils,” *The Guardian* reported.\n\nIn their final settlement, Maurizio agreed to pay his ex-wife \\$1.5 million a year for the rest of her life, among other conditions, according to [*The Telegraph*](https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/gucci-black-widow-is-awarded-gucci-fortune-by-court).\n\nOne of those conditions involved Patrizia losing her most precious asset: The legal right to use the Gucci name. Patrizia’s close friend, Pina Auriemma, told *Dateline* that the former Lady Gucci was “more sad and sorry about losing her name” than losing her husband.\n\nAt the time of their divorce, Patrizia was also reportedly bitter over Maurizio’s business dealings (he lost the family business, selling Gucci to Investcorp in 1993 for \\$120 million, according to *The Guardian*) and his personal life (Maurizio had a new, live-in girlfriend, Paola Franchi).\n\n“Patrizia was stalking us,” Franchi told *The Guardian*. “She called many times abusing him and threatening to kill him.”\n\n## What happened to Maurizio Gucci?\nMaurizio Gucci in the 80s.\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock\n\nAs Maurizio walked into his Milan office building on the morning of March 27, 1995, a well-dressed hired hitman fired two shots — hitting the fashion mogul in the back and shoulder. The gunman then fatally shot Maurizio in the face before fleeing the scene.\n\n“It was clearly a premeditated murder,” Italian police Maj. Paolo La Forgia told PEOPLE about Maurizio’s death.\n\nPatrizia's actions after his death raised some red flags, including filing a legal claim within three hours of Maurizio’s murder to have his girlfriend Franchi removed from the apartment they shared, *The Guardian* reported.\n\n“I was very happy because all my problems were gone,” Patrizia later said on *People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion* in 2018.\n\nHowever, at the time, police had nothing to tie Patrizia to the crime — and the investigation stalled for more than a year.\n\n## What was Patrizia Reggiani convicted of?\nPatrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.\n\nSipa\/Shutterstock\n\nPatrizia was arrested in January 1997, after an anonymous caller tipped off police that an accomplice had bragged about arranging Maurizio’s murder with Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s best friend and psychic.\n\nThe tip led authorities to launch a sting operation where Patrizia and her four accomplices — Auriemma, a friend of her's who hired the hitman, the getaway driver and the hitman himself — eventually discussed the crime on wiretapped phones, *The Guardian* reported.\n\nThe trial of Patrizia and her accomplices began in May 1998. Patrizia’s lawyers claimed that she was mentally unstable due to a 1992 operation on a brain tumor, according to [*The New York Times*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/05\/20\/world\/milan-journal-the-black-widow-goes-on-trial-in-gucci-slaying.html).\n\nHer lawyers also alleged that it was Auriemma who had hired the hitman and then blackmailed Patrizia into keeping quiet.\n\nIn November 1998, after a five-month trial, Patrizia and her four accomplices were found guilty of premeditated murder. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison.\n\n## Where is Patrizia Reggiani now?\nPatrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.\n\nMimmo Carriero\/IPA\/Shutterstock\n\nPatrizia had her first opportunity to be released from prison in 2011 — but declined, since a condition of her parole was getting a job.\n\n“I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she reportedly told her lawyer, per *The Guardian*.\n\nBut by 2014, Patrizia had a change of heart and revealed she was willing to work at Gucci, of all places. That year, she told Italy’s *La Repubblica* newspaper that she was available to work and hoped to return to her ex-husband’s former company.\n\n“They need me,” she said, per *The Guardian*. “I still feel like a Gucci — in fact, the most Gucci of them all.”\n\nPatrizia did not end up working at Gucci, however. Instead, in April 2014, she was granted day release from prison and took a parole job as a design consultant for Bozart, a costume jewelry firm based in Milan, according to *The Guardian*.\n\nBy October 2016, Patrizia had finished her parole on credit for good behavior and was officially free from prison. She had served 18 years of her reduced 26-year sentence and was 67 years old. Upon her release, she went to live in a Milan townhouse with her mother, who later died in 2019.\n\nThough Patrizia has maintained that she was wrongfully convicted, her statements to the press over the years leave cause for confusion.\n\nOne such statement came in 2014, when a camera crew from an Italian reality television show stopped Patrizia outside her workplace and asked her why she hired a hitman and didn’t shoot Maurizio herself.\n\n“My eyesight is not so good,” Patrizia infamously responded, per *The Guardian*. “I didn’t want to miss.”\n\n## Did Patrizia Reggiani receive money from Gucci's estate?\nPatrizia Reggiani in the 80s.\n\nIpa\/Shutterstock\n\nAn Italian court ruled in February 2017 that, despite being convicted of her husband’s murder, Patrizia was still entitled to receive more than \\$1 million annually from Maurizio’s estate, *The Telegraph* reported.\n\nThe appeals court ruled in favor of Patrizia due to an agreement that Maurizio signed in 1993, two years prior to his death. In addition to the annual payments, Patrizia was also entitled to back payments for the 18 years she spent in prison, which totaled more than \\$20 million.\n\nThe payments to Patrizia come from her late ex-husband’s estate, which is managed by her daughters.\n\n## What did Patrizia Reggiani think of *House of Gucci*?\nLady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.\n\nFabio Lovino\/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture\n\n[Adam Driver](https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/adam-driver\/) and [Lady Gaga](https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/lady-gaga\/) brought the story of Maurizio’s murder and Patrizia’s arrest to life on the big screen in 2021’s [*House of Gucci*](https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/lady-gaga-has-never-had-a-better-movie-experience-than-making-house-of-gucci-with-ridley-scott\/). The film received critical praise and [award nominations](https:\/\/people.com\/style\/sag-awards-2022-lady-gaga-plunging-armani-gown\/) — but Patrizia was not pleased, particularly with Lady Gaga.\n\n“I’m [annoyed by the fact that Lady Gaga is portraying me](https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/patrizia-reggiani-says-shes-annoyed-lady-gaga-didnt-meet-her-before-portraying-her-in-upcoming-movie\/) in the new Ridley Scott film without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me,” Patrizia told [*Ansa*](https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/lifestyle\/arts\/2021\/03\/11\/gucci-black-widow-miffed-by-lady-gaga-snub_3a95687b-2439-4fdb-8945-b19d3c067992.html), the Italian national news agency, ahead of the film’s release.\n\nShe continued, “It’s nothing to do with money because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film. It’s about common sense and respect.”\n\n\"I believe that any good actor should first get to know the person that they are meant to be playing,\" Reggiani said, adding, \"I think it is not right that I wasn't contacted. And I say this with all the sympathy and appreciation that I have for her.\"","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022. Credit : Ipa/Shutterstock ; Mimmo Carriero-/IPA/Shutterstock NEED TO KNOW Patrizia Reggiani married Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci in 1972, though they eventually divorced In 1995, Gucci was killed by a hitman who was hired by Reggiani She served 18 years in prison for murder before being released in 2016 Patrizia Reggiani went from being known as Lady Gucci to “La Vedova Nera” — the Black Widow. The Italian socialite became one-half of a fashion power couple when she married Maurizio Gucci , the heir to the Gucci brand, in 1972. The couple went on to live a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, complete with homes in New York and Milan and vacations aboard their mega-yacht. They welcomed two daughters together, Alessandra and Allegra. However, their marriage eventually soured. In 1985, Maurizio walked out on her , and in 1993, mounting debts forced him to sell Gucci to a Bahrain-based investment firm. “I was angry with Maurizio about many, many things at that time,” Patrizia told The Guardian in 2016. “But above all, this. Losing the family business. It was stupid. It was a failure. I was filled with rage, but there was nothing I could do.” But then, on March 27, 1995 — one year after their divorce was finalized — Maurizio was shot dead by a hitman while walking into his Milan office. Two years later, Patrizia was arrested and charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire — changing her persona from “Lady Gucci” to the “Black Widow.” She was convicted of premeditated murder in 1998 and sentenced to 29 years in prison. So where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Here’s everything to know about her life after serving time in prison for the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci. Who is Patrizia Reggiani? Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock Patrizia was born on Dec. 2, 1948, in Vignola, Italy. According to TIME , she grew up poor, and her biological father was not in the picture. But when Patrizia was 12, her mother married a wealthy entrepreneur named Ferdinando Reggiani, who adopted Patrizia as his own. From that point on, Patrizia lived an affluent lifestyle, her stepfather spoiling her with fur coats and luxury cars, The Guardian reported. She became a socialite in Milan but had difficulty breaking into the most elite circles, according to TIME, until she met Maurizio — the heir to the house of Gucci — at a party in 1970. How long were Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci married? Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci. Independent Photo Agency/Alamy After a two-year courtship, Patrizia and Maurizio married on Oct. 28, 1972, in Milan. The fashion power couple became fixtures in both Milan and Manhattan’s social scene, frequently socializing with Jackie Kennedy Onassis and other members of the Kennedy clan. Their luxurious lifestyle didn’t stop there: Patrizia and Maurizio were chauffeured around Manhattan in a vehicle notorious for its vanity plate, which read “Mauizia.” They owned multiple vacation homes, including a ski chalet in St. Moritz, a getaway in Mexico and a farm in Connecticut, according to The Guardian . Maurizio even purchased a yacht following Allegra’s birth, and the family used it to travel to private islands. “We were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course,” Patrizia told The Guardian in 2016. But that all changed abruptly in 1985, when Maurizio told Patrizia he was traveling for a business trip — and never returned. Instead, he sent a friend to tell Patrizia that their marriage was over. Their divorce was made official nearly a decade later, in 1994. The divorce was so lengthy, in part, because Patrizia refused to settle. When Maurizio offered to pay her 2.5 million euros plus 650,000 euros in yearly alimony, Patrizia rejected the deal — referring to the amount as “a mere bowl of lentils,” The Guardian reported. In their final settlement, Maurizio agreed to pay his ex-wife $1.5 million a year for the rest of her life, among other conditions, according to The Telegraph . One of those conditions involved Patrizia losing her most precious asset: The legal right to use the Gucci name. Patrizia’s close friend, Pina Auriemma, told Dateline that the former Lady Gucci was “more sad and sorry about losing her name” than losing her husband. At the time of their divorce, Patrizia was also reportedly bitter over Maurizio’s business dealings (he lost the family business, selling Gucci to Investcorp in 1993 for $120 million, according to The Guardian ) and his personal life (Maurizio had a new, live-in girlfriend, Paola Franchi). “Patrizia was stalking us,” Franchi told The Guardian . “She called many times abusing him and threatening to kill him.” What happened to Maurizio Gucci? Maurizio Gucci in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock As Maurizio walked into his Milan office building on the morning of March 27, 1995, a well-dressed hired hitman fired two shots — hitting the fashion mogul in the back and shoulder. The gunman then fatally shot Maurizio in the face before fleeing the scene. “It was clearly a premeditated murder,” Italian police Maj. Paolo La Forgia told PEOPLE about Maurizio’s death. Patrizia's actions after his death raised some red flags, including filing a legal claim within three hours of Maurizio’s murder to have his girlfriend Franchi removed from the apartment they shared, The Guardian reported. “I was very happy because all my problems were gone,” Patrizia later said on People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion in 2018. However, at the time, police had nothing to tie Patrizia to the crime — and the investigation stalled for more than a year. What was Patrizia Reggiani convicted of? Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy. Sipa/Shutterstock Patrizia was arrested in January 1997, after an anonymous caller tipped off police that an accomplice had bragged about arranging Maurizio’s murder with Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s best friend and psychic. The tip led authorities to launch a sting operation where Patrizia and her four accomplices — Auriemma, a friend of her's who hired the hitman, the getaway driver and the hitman himself — eventually discussed the crime on wiretapped phones, The Guardian reported. The trial of Patrizia and her accomplices began in May 1998. Patrizia’s lawyers claimed that she was mentally unstable due to a 1992 operation on a brain tumor, according to The New York Times . Her lawyers also alleged that it was Auriemma who had hired the hitman and then blackmailed Patrizia into keeping quiet. In November 1998, after a five-month trial, Patrizia and her four accomplices were found guilty of premeditated murder. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison. Where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy. Mimmo Carriero/IPA/Shutterstock Patrizia had her first opportunity to be released from prison in 2011 — but declined, since a condition of her parole was getting a job. “I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she reportedly told her lawyer, per The Guardian . But by 2014, Patrizia had a change of heart and revealed she was willing to work at Gucci, of all places. That year, she told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper that she was available to work and hoped to return to her ex-husband’s former company. “They need me,” she said, per The Guardian . “I still feel like a Gucci — in fact, the most Gucci of them all.” Patrizia did not end up working at Gucci, however. Instead, in April 2014, she was granted day release from prison and took a parole job as a design consultant for Bozart, a costume jewelry firm based in Milan, according to The Guardian . By October 2016, Patrizia had finished her parole on credit for good behavior and was officially free from prison. She had served 18 years of her reduced 26-year sentence and was 67 years old. Upon her release, she went to live in a Milan townhouse with her mother, who later died in 2019. Though Patrizia has maintained that she was wrongfully convicted, her statements to the press over the years leave cause for confusion. One such statement came in 2014, when a camera crew from an Italian reality television show stopped Patrizia outside her workplace and asked her why she hired a hitman and didn’t shoot Maurizio herself. “My eyesight is not so good,” Patrizia infamously responded, per The Guardian . “I didn’t want to miss.” Did Patrizia Reggiani receive money from Gucci's estate? Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock An Italian court ruled in February 2017 that, despite being convicted of her husband’s murder, Patrizia was still entitled to receive more than $1 million annually from Maurizio’s estate, The Telegraph reported. The appeals court ruled in favor of Patrizia due to an agreement that Maurizio signed in 1993, two years prior to his death. In addition to the annual payments, Patrizia was also entitled to back payments for the 18 years she spent in prison, which totaled more than $20 million. The payments to Patrizia come from her late ex-husband’s estate, which is managed by her daughters. What did Patrizia Reggiani think of House of Gucci ? Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci. Fabio Lovino/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Adam Driver and Lady Gaga brought the story of Maurizio’s murder and Patrizia’s arrest to life on the big screen in 2021’s House of Gucci . The film received critical praise and award nominations — but Patrizia was not pleased, particularly with Lady Gaga. “I’m annoyed by the fact that Lady Gaga is portraying me in the new Ridley Scott film without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me,” Patrizia told Ansa , the Italian national news agency, ahead of the film’s release. She continued, “It’s nothing to do with money because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film. It’s about common sense and respect.” "I believe that any good actor should first get to know the person that they are meant to be playing," Reggiani said, adding, "I think it is not right that I wasn't contacted. And I say this with all the sympathy and appreciation that I have for her."
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[People Editorial Guidelines](https://people.com/editorial-policy-page-5499057) Published on March 27, 2026 06:30AM EDT [3 Comments](https://people.com/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864#comments) ![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022.](https://people.com/thmb/imjozuTZ89X-NjjOc0rP_1vheTc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$988x423:990x425$/patrizia-reggiani-then-and-now-032526-1bc984cb06aa49768a6b43ff135fe312.jpg) ![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022.](https://people.com/thmb/imjozuTZ89X-NjjOc0rP_1vheTc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$988x423:990x425$/patrizia-reggiani-then-and-now-032526-1bc984cb06aa49768a6b43ff135fe312.jpg) Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022. Credit : Ipa/Shutterstock ; Mimmo Carriero-/IPA/Shutterstock ### NEED TO KNOW - Patrizia Reggiani married Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci in 1972, though they eventually divorced - In 1995, Gucci was killed by a hitman who was hired by Reggiani - She served 18 years in prison for murder before being released in 2016 [Patrizia Reggiani](https://people.com/crime/maurizio-gucci-death-ex-wife-patrizia-reggiani-speaks/) went from being known as Lady Gucci to “La Vedova Nera” — the Black Widow. The Italian socialite became one-half of a fashion power couple when she married [Maurizio Gucci](https://people.com/crime/behind-investigation-maurizio-gucci-murder/), the heir to the Gucci brand, in 1972. The couple went on to live a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, complete with homes in New York and Milan and vacations aboard their mega-yacht. They welcomed two daughters together, Alessandra and Allegra. However, their marriage eventually soured. In 1985, Maurizio [walked out on her](https://people.com/crime/how-turbulent-marriage-in-house-of-gucci-led-to-murder/), and in 1993, mounting debts forced him to sell Gucci to a Bahrain-based investment firm. “I was angry with Maurizio about many, many things at that time,” Patrizia told [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jul/24/the-gucci-wife-and-the-hitman-fashions-darkest-tale) in 2016. “But above all, this. Losing the family business. It was stupid. It was a failure. I was filled with rage, but there was nothing I could do.” But then, on March 27, 1995 — one year after their divorce was finalized — [Maurizio was shot dead by a hitman](https://people.com/crime/inside-hitman-murdered-maurizio-gucci-death/) while walking into his Milan office. Two years later, Patrizia was arrested and charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire — changing her persona from “Lady Gucci” to the “Black Widow.” She was convicted of premeditated murder in 1998 and sentenced to 29 years in prison. So where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Here’s everything to know about her life after serving time in prison for the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci. ## Who is Patrizia Reggiani? ![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.]() ![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.](https://people.com/thmb/W2_DG_H6E8Fg5KyBfMmYMzXMUyA=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$506x337:508x339$/patrizia-reggiani-1980s-032526-ee6387efca274405833bc405a5fcfcaa.jpg) Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock Patrizia was born on Dec. 2, 1948, in Vignola, Italy. According to [TIME](https://time.com/6122130/house-of-gucci-true-story/), she grew up poor, and her biological father was not in the picture. But when Patrizia was 12, her mother married a wealthy entrepreneur named Ferdinando Reggiani, who adopted Patrizia as his own. From that point on, Patrizia lived an affluent lifestyle, her stepfather spoiling her with fur coats and luxury cars, The Guardian reported. She became a socialite in Milan but had difficulty breaking into the most elite circles, according to TIME, until she met Maurizio — the heir to the house of Gucci — at a party in 1970. ## How long were Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci married? ![Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.]() ![Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci.](https://people.com/thmb/HfFrYq8jDjeBosVV0EiJ7EoYtV4=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$547x401:549x403$/patrizia-reggiani-maurizio-gucci-032526-b976d9e747d342e7babb7dd93ffecb06.jpg) Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci. Independent Photo Agency/Alamy After a two-year courtship, Patrizia and Maurizio married on Oct. 28, 1972, in Milan. The fashion power couple became fixtures in both Milan and Manhattan’s social scene, frequently socializing with [Jackie Kennedy Onassis](https://people.com/tag/jackie-kennedy/) and other members of the Kennedy clan. Their luxurious lifestyle didn’t stop there: Patrizia and Maurizio were chauffeured around Manhattan in a vehicle notorious for its vanity plate, which read “Mauizia.” They owned multiple vacation homes, including a ski chalet in St. Moritz, a getaway in Mexico and a farm in Connecticut, according to The Guardian. Maurizio even purchased a yacht following Allegra’s birth, and the family used it to travel to private islands. “We were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course,” Patrizia told The Guardian in 2016. But that all changed abruptly in 1985, when Maurizio told Patrizia he was traveling for a business trip — and never returned. Instead, he sent a friend to tell Patrizia that their marriage was over. Their divorce was made official nearly a decade later, in 1994. The divorce was so lengthy, in part, because Patrizia refused to settle. When Maurizio offered to pay her 2.5 million euros plus 650,000 euros in yearly alimony, Patrizia rejected the deal — referring to the amount as “a mere bowl of lentils,” The Guardian reported. In their final settlement, Maurizio agreed to pay his ex-wife \$1.5 million a year for the rest of her life, among other conditions, according to [The Telegraph](https://nationalpost.com/news/world/gucci-black-widow-is-awarded-gucci-fortune-by-court). One of those conditions involved Patrizia losing her most precious asset: The legal right to use the Gucci name. Patrizia’s close friend, Pina Auriemma, told Dateline that the former Lady Gucci was “more sad and sorry about losing her name” than losing her husband. At the time of their divorce, Patrizia was also reportedly bitter over Maurizio’s business dealings (he lost the family business, selling Gucci to Investcorp in 1993 for \$120 million, according to The Guardian) and his personal life (Maurizio had a new, live-in girlfriend, Paola Franchi). “Patrizia was stalking us,” Franchi told The Guardian. “She called many times abusing him and threatening to kill him.” ## What happened to Maurizio Gucci? ![Maurizio Gucci in the 80s.]() ![Maurizio Gucci in the 80s.](https://people.com/thmb/mlZVz9gN5nAi3UJlZXw3umVjSpQ=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$519x342:521x344$/maurizio-gucci-1980s-032526-b2ca904f26884a84b427a11e244e9c03.jpg) Maurizio Gucci in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock As Maurizio walked into his Milan office building on the morning of March 27, 1995, a well-dressed hired hitman fired two shots — hitting the fashion mogul in the back and shoulder. The gunman then fatally shot Maurizio in the face before fleeing the scene. “It was clearly a premeditated murder,” Italian police Maj. Paolo La Forgia told PEOPLE about Maurizio’s death. Patrizia's actions after his death raised some red flags, including filing a legal claim within three hours of Maurizio’s murder to have his girlfriend Franchi removed from the apartment they shared, The Guardian reported. “I was very happy because all my problems were gone,” Patrizia later said on People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion in 2018. However, at the time, police had nothing to tie Patrizia to the crime — and the investigation stalled for more than a year. ## What was Patrizia Reggiani convicted of? ![Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.]() ![Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy.](https://people.com/thmb/582Vl2TY5ZSgK3n92rqAGu2xVg0=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$509x369:511x371$/patrizia-reggiani-court-032526-3fdd4ff4389e4685a5a59b4d5ddc0081.jpg) Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy. Sipa/Shutterstock Patrizia was arrested in January 1997, after an anonymous caller tipped off police that an accomplice had bragged about arranging Maurizio’s murder with Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s best friend and psychic. The tip led authorities to launch a sting operation where Patrizia and her four accomplices — Auriemma, a friend of her's who hired the hitman, the getaway driver and the hitman himself — eventually discussed the crime on wiretapped phones, The Guardian reported. The trial of Patrizia and her accomplices began in May 1998. Patrizia’s lawyers claimed that she was mentally unstable due to a 1992 operation on a brain tumor, according to [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/20/world/milan-journal-the-black-widow-goes-on-trial-in-gucci-slaying.html). Her lawyers also alleged that it was Auriemma who had hired the hitman and then blackmailed Patrizia into keeping quiet. In November 1998, after a five-month trial, Patrizia and her four accomplices were found guilty of premeditated murder. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison. ## Where is Patrizia Reggiani now? ![Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.]() ![Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy.](https://people.com/thmb/rkjxWQJ7NCA4E8M1FrsdihIiOlQ=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$472x342:474x344$/patrizia-reggiani-milan-italy-032526-cf56ae2df5f2463ea4bed51a2c49a197.jpg) Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy. Mimmo Carriero/IPA/Shutterstock Patrizia had her first opportunity to be released from prison in 2011 — but declined, since a condition of her parole was getting a job. “I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she reportedly told her lawyer, per The Guardian. But by 2014, Patrizia had a change of heart and revealed she was willing to work at Gucci, of all places. That year, she told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper that she was available to work and hoped to return to her ex-husband’s former company. “They need me,” she said, per The Guardian. “I still feel like a Gucci — in fact, the most Gucci of them all.” Patrizia did not end up working at Gucci, however. Instead, in April 2014, she was granted day release from prison and took a parole job as a design consultant for Bozart, a costume jewelry firm based in Milan, according to The Guardian. By October 2016, Patrizia had finished her parole on credit for good behavior and was officially free from prison. She had served 18 years of her reduced 26-year sentence and was 67 years old. Upon her release, she went to live in a Milan townhouse with her mother, who later died in 2019. Though Patrizia has maintained that she was wrongfully convicted, her statements to the press over the years leave cause for confusion. One such statement came in 2014, when a camera crew from an Italian reality television show stopped Patrizia outside her workplace and asked her why she hired a hitman and didn’t shoot Maurizio herself. “My eyesight is not so good,” Patrizia infamously responded, per The Guardian. “I didn’t want to miss.” ## Did Patrizia Reggiani receive money from Gucci's estate? ![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.]() ![Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s.](https://people.com/thmb/G8QHOL3_K9yH6ls2kzuYJVG2fjk=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$479x319:481x321$/patrizia-reggiani-1980s-2-032526-a2feccaa6e0b45bab4f80ed428591ed1.jpg) Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock An Italian court ruled in February 2017 that, despite being convicted of her husband’s murder, Patrizia was still entitled to receive more than \$1 million annually from Maurizio’s estate, The Telegraph reported. The appeals court ruled in favor of Patrizia due to an agreement that Maurizio signed in 1993, two years prior to his death. In addition to the annual payments, Patrizia was also entitled to back payments for the 18 years she spent in prison, which totaled more than \$20 million. The payments to Patrizia come from her late ex-husband’s estate, which is managed by her daughters. ## What did Patrizia Reggiani think of House of Gucci? ![Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.]() ![Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci.](https://people.com/thmb/-VZgjmpmO3a0slSylLMNy-sBQn8=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$959x292:961x294$/house-of-gucci-2-eeb4c71bf86f44f7a9d1df9164a5e905.jpg) Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci. Fabio Lovino/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture [Adam Driver](https://people.com/tag/adam-driver/) and [Lady Gaga](https://people.com/tag/lady-gaga/) brought the story of Maurizio’s murder and Patrizia’s arrest to life on the big screen in 2021’s [House of Gucci](https://people.com/movies/lady-gaga-has-never-had-a-better-movie-experience-than-making-house-of-gucci-with-ridley-scott/). The film received critical praise and [award nominations](https://people.com/style/sag-awards-2022-lady-gaga-plunging-armani-gown/) — but Patrizia was not pleased, particularly with Lady Gaga. “I’m [annoyed by the fact that Lady Gaga is portraying me](https://people.com/movies/patrizia-reggiani-says-shes-annoyed-lady-gaga-didnt-meet-her-before-portraying-her-in-upcoming-movie/) in the new Ridley Scott film without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me,” Patrizia told [Ansa](https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2021/03/11/gucci-black-widow-miffed-by-lady-gaga-snub_3a95687b-2439-4fdb-8945-b19d3c067992.html), the Italian national news agency, ahead of the film’s release. She continued, “It’s nothing to do with money because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film. It’s about common sense and respect.” "I believe that any good actor should first get to know the person that they are meant to be playing," Reggiani said, adding, "I think it is not right that I wasn't contacted. And I say this with all the sympathy and appreciation that I have for her." Close [Leave a Comment](https://people.com/where-is-patrizia-reggiani-now-8641864#comments) Read more: - [Crime](https://people.com/crime/) - [Crime History](https://people.com/crime-history) Trending Now [![Rodney Metzer.]() ![Rodney Metzer.](https://people.com/thmb/S87RY2__F07wUZHrt8Ri-L_Dgn8=/343x228/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc/rodney-metzer-032326-874d3df39a2042a6a656c73b92628ded.jpg) Where Is Rodney Metzer Now? Inside His Life After He Attacked His Ex-Wife in Disguise](https://people.com/where-is-rodney-metzer-now-11932372) [Crime](https://people.com/crime/) 3 days ago [![American Nightmare. Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn in American Nightmare. ]() ![American Nightmare. 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Readable Markdown	Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s ; Patrizia Reggiani on January 20, 2022. Credit : Ipa/Shutterstock ; Mimmo Carriero-/IPA/Shutterstock ### NEED TO KNOW - Patrizia Reggiani married Gucci heir Maurizio Gucci in 1972, though they eventually divorced - In 1995, Gucci was killed by a hitman who was hired by Reggiani - She served 18 years in prison for murder before being released in 2016 [Patrizia Reggiani](https://people.com/crime/maurizio-gucci-death-ex-wife-patrizia-reggiani-speaks/) went from being known as Lady Gucci to “La Vedova Nera” — the Black Widow. The Italian socialite became one-half of a fashion power couple when she married [Maurizio Gucci](https://people.com/crime/behind-investigation-maurizio-gucci-murder/), the heir to the Gucci brand, in 1972. The couple went on to live a lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, complete with homes in New York and Milan and vacations aboard their mega-yacht. They welcomed two daughters together, Alessandra and Allegra. However, their marriage eventually soured. In 1985, Maurizio [walked out on her](https://people.com/crime/how-turbulent-marriage-in-house-of-gucci-led-to-murder/), and in 1993, mounting debts forced him to sell Gucci to a Bahrain-based investment firm. “I was angry with Maurizio about many, many things at that time,” Patrizia told [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jul/24/the-gucci-wife-and-the-hitman-fashions-darkest-tale) in 2016. “But above all, this. Losing the family business. It was stupid. It was a failure. I was filled with rage, but there was nothing I could do.” But then, on March 27, 1995 — one year after their divorce was finalized — [Maurizio was shot dead by a hitman](https://people.com/crime/inside-hitman-murdered-maurizio-gucci-death/) while walking into his Milan office. Two years later, Patrizia was arrested and charged with orchestrating the murder-for-hire — changing her persona from “Lady Gucci” to the “Black Widow.” She was convicted of premeditated murder in 1998 and sentenced to 29 years in prison. So where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Here’s everything to know about her life after serving time in prison for the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci. ## Who is Patrizia Reggiani? Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock Patrizia was born on Dec. 2, 1948, in Vignola, Italy. According to [TIME](https://time.com/6122130/house-of-gucci-true-story/), she grew up poor, and her biological father was not in the picture. But when Patrizia was 12, her mother married a wealthy entrepreneur named Ferdinando Reggiani, who adopted Patrizia as his own. From that point on, Patrizia lived an affluent lifestyle, her stepfather spoiling her with fur coats and luxury cars, The Guardian reported. She became a socialite in Milan but had difficulty breaking into the most elite circles, according to TIME, until she met Maurizio — the heir to the house of Gucci — at a party in 1970. ## How long were Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci married? Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci. Independent Photo Agency/Alamy After a two-year courtship, Patrizia and Maurizio married on Oct. 28, 1972, in Milan. The fashion power couple became fixtures in both Milan and Manhattan’s social scene, frequently socializing with [Jackie Kennedy Onassis](https://people.com/tag/jackie-kennedy/) and other members of the Kennedy clan. Their luxurious lifestyle didn’t stop there: Patrizia and Maurizio were chauffeured around Manhattan in a vehicle notorious for its vanity plate, which read “Mauizia.” They owned multiple vacation homes, including a ski chalet in St. Moritz, a getaway in Mexico and a farm in Connecticut, according to The Guardian. Maurizio even purchased a yacht following Allegra’s birth, and the family used it to travel to private islands. “We were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course,” Patrizia told The Guardian in 2016. But that all changed abruptly in 1985, when Maurizio told Patrizia he was traveling for a business trip — and never returned. Instead, he sent a friend to tell Patrizia that their marriage was over. Their divorce was made official nearly a decade later, in 1994. The divorce was so lengthy, in part, because Patrizia refused to settle. When Maurizio offered to pay her 2.5 million euros plus 650,000 euros in yearly alimony, Patrizia rejected the deal — referring to the amount as “a mere bowl of lentils,” The Guardian reported. In their final settlement, Maurizio agreed to pay his ex-wife \$1.5 million a year for the rest of her life, among other conditions, according to [The Telegraph](https://nationalpost.com/news/world/gucci-black-widow-is-awarded-gucci-fortune-by-court). One of those conditions involved Patrizia losing her most precious asset: The legal right to use the Gucci name. Patrizia’s close friend, Pina Auriemma, told Dateline that the former Lady Gucci was “more sad and sorry about losing her name” than losing her husband. At the time of their divorce, Patrizia was also reportedly bitter over Maurizio’s business dealings (he lost the family business, selling Gucci to Investcorp in 1993 for \$120 million, according to The Guardian) and his personal life (Maurizio had a new, live-in girlfriend, Paola Franchi). “Patrizia was stalking us,” Franchi told The Guardian. “She called many times abusing him and threatening to kill him.” ## What happened to Maurizio Gucci? Maurizio Gucci in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock As Maurizio walked into his Milan office building on the morning of March 27, 1995, a well-dressed hired hitman fired two shots — hitting the fashion mogul in the back and shoulder. The gunman then fatally shot Maurizio in the face before fleeing the scene. “It was clearly a premeditated murder,” Italian police Maj. Paolo La Forgia told PEOPLE about Maurizio’s death. Patrizia's actions after his death raised some red flags, including filing a legal claim within three hours of Maurizio’s murder to have his girlfriend Franchi removed from the apartment they shared, The Guardian reported. “I was very happy because all my problems were gone,” Patrizia later said on People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion in 2018. However, at the time, police had nothing to tie Patrizia to the crime — and the investigation stalled for more than a year. ## What was Patrizia Reggiani convicted of? Patrizia Reggiani in court on November 3, 1998 in Milan, Italy. Sipa/Shutterstock Patrizia was arrested in January 1997, after an anonymous caller tipped off police that an accomplice had bragged about arranging Maurizio’s murder with Pina Auriemma, Patrizia’s best friend and psychic. The tip led authorities to launch a sting operation where Patrizia and her four accomplices — Auriemma, a friend of her's who hired the hitman, the getaway driver and the hitman himself — eventually discussed the crime on wiretapped phones, The Guardian reported. The trial of Patrizia and her accomplices began in May 1998. Patrizia’s lawyers claimed that she was mentally unstable due to a 1992 operation on a brain tumor, according to [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/20/world/milan-journal-the-black-widow-goes-on-trial-in-gucci-slaying.html). Her lawyers also alleged that it was Auriemma who had hired the hitman and then blackmailed Patrizia into keeping quiet. In November 1998, after a five-month trial, Patrizia and her four accomplices were found guilty of premeditated murder. Patrizia was sentenced to 29 years in prison. ## Where is Patrizia Reggiani now? Patrizia Reggiani on January 24, 2019 in Milan, Italy. Mimmo Carriero/IPA/Shutterstock Patrizia had her first opportunity to be released from prison in 2011 — but declined, since a condition of her parole was getting a job. “I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now,” she reportedly told her lawyer, per The Guardian. But by 2014, Patrizia had a change of heart and revealed she was willing to work at Gucci, of all places. That year, she told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper that she was available to work and hoped to return to her ex-husband’s former company. “They need me,” she said, per The Guardian. “I still feel like a Gucci — in fact, the most Gucci of them all.” Patrizia did not end up working at Gucci, however. Instead, in April 2014, she was granted day release from prison and took a parole job as a design consultant for Bozart, a costume jewelry firm based in Milan, according to The Guardian. By October 2016, Patrizia had finished her parole on credit for good behavior and was officially free from prison. She had served 18 years of her reduced 26-year sentence and was 67 years old. Upon her release, she went to live in a Milan townhouse with her mother, who later died in 2019. Though Patrizia has maintained that she was wrongfully convicted, her statements to the press over the years leave cause for confusion. One such statement came in 2014, when a camera crew from an Italian reality television show stopped Patrizia outside her workplace and asked her why she hired a hitman and didn’t shoot Maurizio herself. “My eyesight is not so good,” Patrizia infamously responded, per The Guardian. “I didn’t want to miss.” ## Did Patrizia Reggiani receive money from Gucci's estate? Patrizia Reggiani in the 80s. Ipa/Shutterstock An Italian court ruled in February 2017 that, despite being convicted of her husband’s murder, Patrizia was still entitled to receive more than \$1 million annually from Maurizio’s estate, The Telegraph reported. The appeals court ruled in favor of Patrizia due to an agreement that Maurizio signed in 1993, two years prior to his death. In addition to the annual payments, Patrizia was also entitled to back payments for the 18 years she spent in prison, which totaled more than \$20 million. The payments to Patrizia come from her late ex-husband’s estate, which is managed by her daughters. ## What did Patrizia Reggiani think of House of Gucci? Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in House of Gucci. Fabio Lovino/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture [Adam Driver](https://people.com/tag/adam-driver/) and [Lady Gaga](https://people.com/tag/lady-gaga/) brought the story of Maurizio’s murder and Patrizia’s arrest to life on the big screen in 2021’s [House of Gucci](https://people.com/movies/lady-gaga-has-never-had-a-better-movie-experience-than-making-house-of-gucci-with-ridley-scott/). The film received critical praise and [award nominations](https://people.com/style/sag-awards-2022-lady-gaga-plunging-armani-gown/) — but Patrizia was not pleased, particularly with Lady Gaga. “I’m [annoyed by the fact that Lady Gaga is portraying me](https://people.com/movies/patrizia-reggiani-says-shes-annoyed-lady-gaga-didnt-meet-her-before-portraying-her-in-upcoming-movie/) in the new Ridley Scott film without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me,” Patrizia told [Ansa](https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2021/03/11/gucci-black-widow-miffed-by-lady-gaga-snub_3a95687b-2439-4fdb-8945-b19d3c067992.html), the Italian national news agency, ahead of the film’s release. She continued, “It’s nothing to do with money because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film. It’s about common sense and respect.” "I believe that any good actor should first get to know the person that they are meant to be playing," Reggiani said, adding, "I think it is not right that I wasn't contacted. And I say this with all the sympathy and appreciation that I have for her."
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