What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in House of Gucci

Having explored the fabulously wealthy dysfunctional Gettys in All the Money in the World, Ridley Scott has now turned his attention to another fabulously wealthy dysfunctional family, the Guccis. “And I don’t intend to start now.” Interestingly, Italian newspapers reported that Ferdinando’s son Vincenzo Reggiani told police that he believed Patrizia and her mother had conspired to kill his father as Ferdinando lay seriously ill in 1973 because they thought Patrizia was about to be disinherited, saying, “I believe this was not the first time Patrizia has committed murder.” An inquiry into Ferdinando’s death was opened but did not result in any charges. The Guccis the Movie Leaves Out The film suggests Guccio Gucci, the founder of the family fortunes, had two sons, Aldo and Rodolfo ; that Aldo had one son called Paolo ; and that Rodolfo also had only one son, Maurizio, with the two brothers each inheriting half of Gucci’s shares. As a sweetener, Paolo gives Maurizio a file containing “a black hole of undeclared income” that will implicate his father, Aldo, leading to Aldo’s imprisonment in the United States for a year on tax evasion. In 1986, Paolo did launch a new line of handbags and other items under the “PG” brand, and the judicial police did burst in to the launch because of Maurizio’s copyright infringement lawsuit.