MIAMI – Twenty-five years in the past, famed Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was gunned down outdoors his South Beach mansion in a murder that surprised South Florida–and the remainder of the world.
It was July fifteenth, 1997. The designer, 50, had simply unlocked the gate of his dwelling after having breakfast at News Café on Ocean Drive when a person in his mid-twenties, serial killer Andrew Cunanan, pulled a gun and shot him twice within the again of the pinnacle.
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International media swarmed into South Beach to cowl the sensational slaying which befell outdoors Casa Casuarina, his elaborate and opulent 10-bedroom Ocean Drive mansion.
Versace’s blood stained the coral entrance steps of the property after the taking pictures. The world well-known, part-time resident lived within the dwelling for 5 years earlier than his murder.
The manhunt for Cunanan, as soon as a male prostitute, made worldwide headlines within the days that adopted.
He was suspected within the murders of 4 different males and was already on the federal ten most wished checklist on the time he shot and killed Versace.
A bit greater than per week after Versace’s murder, Cunanan killed himself on a shuttered houseboat about 40 blocks north of the mansion as police closed in.
More than twenty years later, investigators nonetheless do not know why Cunanan murdered Versace or his different victims within the lethal crime spree that unfold from Minneapolis to Chicago to South Beach.
Since the crime, the Versace mansion at eleventh Street and Ocean Drive has been became a boutique lodge and restaurant generally known as Villa Casa Casaurina.
