Black Widow of the Gucci fashion dynasty on foot without trial on the murder of her husband

  When that did not happen , she tried to argue that the brain tumor was confused before his trial for the murder , when she could not be guilty. But if the court finally agreed that they leave on probation on the condition that they got a job , she is outraged. " I never worked a day in my life. I prefer it , be my plants in my cell and water," she sniffed .

Learn Patrizia Reggiani , Italy better known as Black Widow .

The daughter of a truck driver and a laundress , she married torn into a wealthy clan, which was also as by internal power struggles , he made the Borgias look like Walton .

Since 1997 she has been in prison for ordering the murder of her ex-husband , Maurizio Gucci died , the former owner of the fashion empire of the family and grandson of the founder , in a hail of bullets at the entrance to his office.

She was angry that he just offered her £ 410,000 a year as a divorce settlement , a sum which he has dismissed as a " mess of pottage " . But when she was arrested for the murder , she accused Giuseppina Auriemma , his confidante and personal assets adventure she arranged the shot had to say without him.

By Patrizia Auriemma turned informant for 29 years was arrested in 1998 , later reduced to 26 years on appeal. But yesterday, it turned out that after they bite the bullet and published a part time job at the Milan Fashion House Bozart .

At the age of 64, he will make his first day working honest though , as the position will involve advising the company delivers on the screens and windows, it is not exactly that would be difficult.

She remained there for three years has ended up to his sentence , factoring in a greater reduction for good behavior .

House of the more colorful fashion of Italy was founded by Guccio Gucci, who was born in Florence in 1881 . As a young man he worked in Paris and London , including as a waiter and dishwasher at the Hotel Savoy .

Inspired by the baggage of high quality, with which he saw as the upper class customers arrive , he returned to Florence in 1921 and set up a shop of leather bags and meet other wealthy tourists who visit Italy.

With his first double - G as a corporate brand has become an international success. In the thirties, he had to make ramifications in the most exclusive neighborhood in Los Angeles and New York , moving to Frank Sinatra moccasins and bags bamboo handle Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor.

Family quarrels started after the old man died in 1953. Daughter Grimalda vain pursues her three brothers when they left out of the will .

The oldest of them , Aldo , further , the company assigned to different parts of the empire to his son run three . But when one of them , Paolo , announced that it its own line of products to his tyrannical father dismissed launched by top brands to life him.

Paolo was physically whereupon he sued for damages and betrayed Aldo violating U.S. authorities for tax evasion by his brothers in a series of spectacular meeting room. His father was sentenced to one year in prison.

Maurizio was the son of the younger brother Rodolfo Aldo . He took over the company from his father when he died in 1983. The combination of the modest but beautiful Patrizia , who declared known , they would " rather cry in a Rolls than be happy on a bicycle " was his first act of rebellion .

Then he started a power struggle for control of the Gucci empire , borrowing huge sums to buy shares ruined every member of the family, including Aldo . Its purpose was the advance of his rival houses Armani and Versace Fashion resist , but he spent too much on his own lavish lifestyle and its creditors decided they wanted their money.

In 1991, Gucci was on the verge of bankruptcy and Maurizio was forced to sell up . At that time, his marriage fell apart and he left Patrizia and daughters Allegra and Alessandra for an interior designer named Paola Franchi.

After the rejection of the application for divorce Patrizia one year, he was shot by an assassin as he walked into the building from his office in Milan in March 1995 at least £ 620,000 . He was hit by four bullets . Patrizia was arrested with his Neapolitan clairvoyant . She admitted that she paid £ 240,000 for the group that killed her husband , but she said she was blackmailed.

She admitted she had often wished her late husband , but she said the gang of Auriemma had been ordered to carry out the killing without his consent , and then asked for money to them calmly. The court did not believe her . Several accomplices were also detained , including Auriemma , the killer , the driver of the flight and hotel porter .

Patrizia later admitted in a television interview that in a television interview that they search for a killer after her husband refused to support her when she was diagnosed with the brain tumor.

She said: " When I went into the operating room , I have said , to survive, because Maurizio , I 'll make you pay for all the trouble . " I started with the idea to find someone my husband kill to be possessed . I asked people find me a killer. "

Her mother and her daughters led a campaign for clemency , the first assertion of his death was imminent (it was 10 years ago, and it turned out not to be ), and then argues that a brain injury after his brain surgery is his deprived of his full powers and they could not be held responsible for his actions. But the thing was nothing after this long for the kind of protracted disputes for which the Italian legal system is notorious feuds.

Then it seemed that director Ridley Scott was planning a film about family with Angelina Jolie Patrizia Gucci, but to make the cut . Two years ago, she said Patrizia from the prison of San Vittore in Milan was discharged after 14 years in prison when she found a job in a restaurant or a gym . But haughtily rejected .

Outside watering plants in her cell , she said she wanted to stay inside to take their ferrets. This week turned out that she changed her mind . " We were very surprised when they contacted and asked to work for us, but we are more than happy to help us," said his new employer Alessandra Brunero owner Bozart .