Patrizia Reggiani

Italian socialite and murderer (born 1948)

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78
Born 1948
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Lady Gucci: The Story …
2020

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Updated 2026-08-26

She ordered the murder of her ex-husband, the heir to the Gucci fashion empire, in a case that turned Italian socialite scandal into international tabloid fixation.

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Born Patrizia Martinelli on December 2, 1948, she married into one of Italy's most storied luxury dynasties and lived the socialite life that came with the Gucci name. After her marriage to Maurizio Gucci ended, she hired a hitman to kill him. The murder and the trial that followed became a media sensation, and she was convicted of orchestrating the assassination. The case cemented her as a figure of both fascination and infamy, her name inseparable from the violent unraveling of a fashion empire's family.

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