Word: beached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida, however, there have been complaints that the FBI did not focus early enough on Miami Beach's gay community. A number of bars and businesses in the area say they were alerted by agents. But though the FBI promised to send 1,500 flyers to the gay and lesbian center in Fort Lauderdale, they did not arrive until the day after Versace's killing. FBI officials blame government printing delays for the foul...
...Reported by Greg Aunapu, Cathy Booth and Tammerlin Drummond/Miami Beach, Julie Grace/Chicago, James Willwerth/San Diego, Laird Harrison/San Francisco and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...splendidly cut couture gowns (costing $20,000-plus) with accoutrements of denim and plastic. During his abbreviated life Versace designed costumes for several operas produced at Milan's fabled La Scala, and outfitted the cast of Miami Vice. He took stately villas and compounds in Milan, Lake Como, Miami Beach and New York City and refurbished them into homes unimaginably ornate...
...Donatella who persuaded Versace to visit her in 1991 in her favorite new sunbathing spot, Miami Beach. On his way to Cuba with his longtime companion Antonio D'Amico, he obliged his sister with a stop at the Hotel Fontainebleau, where she was vacationing with her husband Paul Beck, a former Versace model, and the couple's two children, Allegra and Daniel. The designer hired a driver to show him around the area, and he wound up in the then not yet trendy section of South Beach. "I sat in a bar and started to look around at the people...
...years, he spent $6.6 million (and an estimated $32 million in renovations) on the two Ocean Drive buildings that were transformed into his Casa Casuarina residence, where his life last week came to an abrupt end. Versace's arrival brought a much hyped infusion of glamour to South Beach. Soon after he started spending time there, it was hard to stroll down Ocean Drive without stumbling upon a fashion shoot. Chic restaurants popped up, and so did more and more modeling agencies, as aspiring cover girls and boys started hanging around Versace, hoping to be discovered. (Every now and then...