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6 Miami Beach Police Department report, case No. 97–24687. Statement given to police by Carlos Silva on July 15, 1997.
7 Miami Beach Police Department report. Evidence/Inventory Log, 6979 Collins Ave, room 322, p. 5.
8 Horyn, “The Murder on Ocean Drive.”
9 Pat Jordan, “Versace’s Paradise: In a World of Pleasure, Murder Can Be the Most Powerful Memory,” Playboy, December 1, 1997, p. 90.
10 Miami Beach Police Department report. Statement given to police by Vivan C. Oliva on July 16, 1997.
11 Interview with Frank Scottolini, May 14, 2008.
12 Miami Beach Police Department report. Statement given by Brad (no last name given) to police on July 16, 1997, via MBPD’s Crimestoppers tips phone line.
13 Miami Beach Police Department report. Statement given by Mersiha Colakovic on July 24, 1997.
14 Todd S. Purdum, “Stark Images of a Suspect Who Lived Fast and Loose,” New York Times, July 17, 1997.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Mireya Navarro, “At End of Cunanan Manhunt, Suicide and Mystery,” New York Times, July 25, 1997.
19 Miami Beach Police Department report. Statement given by Mirian Hernandez on July 18, 1997.
20 Miami Beach Police Department report. Statement given by Lazaro Quintana on July 15, 1997.
21 Gastel, Il mito Versace, p. 246.
22 Austin, “Swelter,” Ocean Drive Magazine.
23 Lizette Alvarez with Don Van Natta, Jr., “In the End, Cunanan Proved Neither Cunning Nor Brazen,” New York Times, July 27, 1997.
24 Interview with J. Wallace Tutt III, January 2, 2008.
25 Orth, Vulgar Favors, p. 80.
26 Ibid., p. 216.
27 “An Industry Grieves,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 16, 1997, p. 7.
28 Orth, Vulgar Favors, p. 468.
fourteen: Understudy on the Stage
1 Interview with Brian Atwood, January 30, 2009.
2 Interview with Santo Versace, February 12, 2009.
3 Interview with Antonio D’Amico, February 9, 2009.
4 Christopher Ciccone, Life with My Sister Madonna (London: Simon & Schuster, 2008), pp. 254–57.
5 Chiara Di Beria, “Senza Gianni Ho Paura, Lui E’ Insostituibile,” La Stampa, October 1, 1997.
6 Ibid.
7 “Il Tributo degli altri Re alla Nuova Regina,” Corriere della Sera, October 10, 1997.
8 Di Beria, “Senza Gianni.”
fifteen: Inheritance and Loss
1 Interview with Anna Candela, September 16, 2008.
2 Interview with Antonio D’Amico, February 9, 2009.
3 Ibid.
4 Mirri, It’s Your Song, pp. 132–33.
5 Naomi McElroy, “Kate Gives Versace Mourners a Wake-Up Call,” Sunday Mirror, October 14, 2007.
sixteen: Siblings at War
1 Ciccone, Life with My Sister Madonna, pp. 262–64.
2 Amy M. Spindler, “In Paris Couture, the Spectacle’s the Thing,” New York Times, July 21, 1998.
3 Ciccone, Life with My Sister Madonna, p. 265.
4 Cathy Horyn, “Boatloads of Stars, but Ideas Are Elsewhere,” New York Times, September 14, 1999.
5 Interview with Lori Goldstein, April 23, 2008.
6 Fabio Galvano, “Abiti, diamanti e tanti VIP alla grade festa organizzata per beneficenza da Donatella e Santo,” La Stampa, June 11, 1999.
7 Dana Thomas, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (London: Penguin, 2007), p. 9.
8 Rupert Everett, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (London: Little, Brown, 2006), pp. 328–29.
9 Ibid., p. 331.
seventeen: Toward Ruin
1 “Lo and Behold,” Women’s Wear Daily, October 4, 2001, p. 7.
2 Interview with Alan Rohwer, September 24, 2008.
3 Ibid.
eighteen: Breaking Down
1 Anamaria Wilson, “Versace Drums Up $620,000 at Bergdorf,” Women’s Wear Daily, April 16, 2003, p. 15.
2 Interview with Ron Frasch, April 23, 2008.
3 Singer, “Coming Clean,” p. 275.
4 Ibid., p. 257.
5 Ibid., p. 257.
6 Ibid., p. 275.
7 Ibid., p. 257.
8 Daniela Fedi, “Cocaina, Donatella Versace in Clinica. La Stilista E’ Ricoverata per Disintossicarsi,” Il Giornale, July 29, 2004.
9 Gian Marco Ansaloni, “Vicious Versace Sfila Lo Stile Savile Rock,” Milano Finanza, June 29, 2004.
10 Singer, “Coming Clean,” p. 257.
11 Maria Corbi, “Da Lady Diana e Donatella Versace alla new entry Afef, il principe gay del pop e tutte le sue donne,” La Stampa, March 27, 2007.
12 Collins, “Mondo Donatella,” p. 159.
13 Singer, “Coming Clean,” p. 275.
14 Ibid., p. 275.
15 Ibid.
16 Levy, “Summer for the Sun Queen.”
nineteen: Recovery
1 Amanda Kaiser, “Fendi’s Next Phase: Scent, More Stores and the Great Wall,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 1, 2007, p. 4.
2 Interview with Giancarlo Di Risio, March 12, 2009.
3 Peter Howarth, “Prima Donna,” Observer Magazine, March 11, 2007, p. 14.
4 Collins, “Mondo Donatella,” p. 161.
5 Jenny Peters, “The Big Party: Gianni and Donatella Versace Honored with Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award,” www.FashionWireDaily.com, February 9, 2007.
6 Cathy Horyn, “At Versace, a Testament to Genius,” New York Times, February 26, 2007.
7 Interview with Patrick Guadagno, April 1, 2009.
8 Interview with Ron Frasch, April 23, 2008.
9 Ginsberg, “Donatella & Allegra,” p. 455.
twenty: A New Beginning
1 Collins, “Mondo Donatella,” p. 163.
About the Author
A native of Boston, Deborah Ball has been a business journalist in Europe for more than fifteen years. For twelve years, she has been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Milan, London, and Zurich, covering a wide variety of business, finance, and political topics. Between 1999 and 2002, she covered the European luxury-goods sector for the Journal. Ms. Ball currently lives between Italy and Switzerland with her husband, Fabrizio Mucci.
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Ball, Deborah.
House of Versace / Deborah Ball.
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1. Fashion design—Italy—History. 2. Gianni Versace S.p.A.—History.
3. Fashion designers—Italy. 4. Versace, Gianni. 5. Clothing trade—Italy—
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