Word: gianni
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...When Gianni Versace walked down the street in Miami Beach, he had every reason to think he had created the world. If fashion has joined Hollywood and sports among the great public spectacles of our time, Versace was one big reason why. And if Miami Beach is now a laboratory of instant gratification, full of clubs and in-line skaters and muscle guys with deltoids like the gas tanks on a Harley--in some measure that was Versace's doing too. Six years ago, when the city was threadbare, he fell in love with it, and soon began converting...
...worlds of Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan may have first intersected in the early 1990s, when both were in San Francisco--Versace to design costumes for a production of the San Francisco Opera. Erik Gruenwald, now a Los Angeles attorney, remembers that Cunanan approached him at Colossus, a local gay club, with exciting news. "I just met Gianni Versace," Cunanan told Gruenwald. "I said, 'Sure, and I'm Coco Chanel.'"A forthcoming article in Vanity Fair reports that Cunanan, now 27, had encountered Versace among a crowd backstage at the opera, and that Versace spoke to him, apparently thinking they...
MIAMI: The FBI is trying to determine if Andrew Cunanan had any help in evading authorities after he allegedly slayed fashion designer Gianni Versace. At the top of the FBI's suspected accomplice list: Torsten Reineck, the proprietor of a gay bath house in Las Vegas and owner of the houseboat where Cunanan was found dead with a self inflicted bullet wound to the head. TIME Miami bureau chief TammerlinDrummond reports the FBI is currently questioning him to determine if he knew the suspected serial killer. "There are very real questions as to whether Reineck gave Cunanan the keys...
MIAMI: SWAT teams surrounded a houseboat tonight some two miles from Gianni Versace's home after a caretaker surprised an intruder and then reported a gunshot. Aboard the boat, police after two initial searches found the body of a young man closely resembling Andrew Cunanan who had killed himself with a gunshot. Two investigative teams are currently on the boat, and attempts to positively identify the body are underway...
MIAMI: Authorities say the gun used to kill fashion designer Gianni Versace was used in two earlier slayings linked to suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Quoting an anonymous law enforcement source, The Miami Herald reported the bullets that killed architect David Madson in Minnesota and cemetery groundskeeper William Reese in New Jersey came from the same .40-caliber handgun that was used to pump two rounds into the back of Versace's head last week. Meanwhile, as the search for Cunanan continued in South Florida, Versace's brother and sister issued a heated statement denying that the fashion designer...