Murder in the House of Gucci | Humble Beginnings | 88
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci – the one-time chairman of the House of Gucci – was killed in cold blood. The murder became Italy’s crime of the century. As a story, it had it all: a rags-to-riches family saga, a vengeful ex-wife, and the glitz and glamor of the world of high fashion.
But what it didn’t have... was an ending. For two years, detectives went in circles. To solve the case, they’d have to crack open Maurizio’s life like a book.
In the first episode of our three-part series, we turn back to page one. How did Guccio Gucci, a poor bellhop, make his name synonymous with luxury? How did a family as glamorous as the Guccis produce a child as shy and awkward as Maurizio? And how did Maurizio go from the most overlooked member of the family to its most powerful?
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.8 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.6 | Just like when a real housewife finds out her Gucci bag is a fake, |
| 0:11.2 | we're going to swear. Arisha, Brooke. I want you to imagine it's |
| 0:16.4 | a reason. |
| 0:19.4 | Arisha. Brooke. |
| 0:21.4 | I want you to imagine it's 8.30 a.m. on March 27th, 1995. |
| 0:27.0 | You're in Milan, Italy, and you're standing on the steps of Via Palestro 20. |
| 0:32.0 | It's an elegant Renaissance style building where only the city's most elite |
| 0:36.8 | businessmen can afford office space. The street is picture perfect. There's a canopy of lush maple and fur trees. |
| 0:46.2 | Directly across the street is the city park, |
| 0:49.0 | an oasis of green dotted by yellow forcythia. But even though the street is calm, your eyes are busy. |
| 0:56.0 | You're constantly scanning left and right. And once in a while you take a little notebook and pen out of your breast pocket and scribble something |
| 1:04.3 | down. |
| 1:05.3 | Please tell me I'm a detective. |
| 1:07.3 | Well, kind of. |
| 1:09.1 | Your name is Giuseppe Onarato. |
| 1:11.9 | You're an ex-military man who's now a door man and you take your job very, very seriously. |
| 1:18.8 | Two years ago, a car bomb just down the street killed five people and you saw a strange looking |
| 1:24.5 | camper parked right next to where the bomb went off but you didn't report it. |
| 1:28.9 | Oh. So ever since then you've been writing down everything out of the ordinary, just in case. |
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