On the morning of March 27, 1995, at 8:30 a.m., Milanese entrepreneur Maurizio Gucci walks through the entrance hall of his office with a view of the Porta Venezia gardens.
He is surprised by a stranger who points a 32 caliber automatic pistol at him and fires four bullets.
The last, aimed at his temple, is fatal.
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At 47, the grandson of Guccio Gucci, founder of the great Florentine fashion house, died before help arrived.
The homicide triggers a media storm, Allegra Gucci's life changes.
Nothing will be the same for the 14-year-old girl and her older sister, Alessandra, 18, who lose their father that day.
They are not at the end of their sentence: two years after the assassination, on December 31, their mother, Patrizia Reggiani Gucci is arrested, accused of being the sponsor of the assassination of Maurizio Gucci, her ex-husband.
Seventeen years later, she will confess to being guilty of this crime of passion.
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