Gaga’s Gucci coup
Singer to star as spurned killer of Italian label heir
ALPY DAYS Driver and Gaga filming in Italy
Reggiani herself, who griped Gaga had not contacted her.
She said: “I’m annoyed that Lady Gaga is portraying me without even having the courtesy or the good sense to come and meet me.
“It’s nothing to do with money, because I won’t be taking a single cent from the film.
“It’s about respect. Any good actor should get to know the person they’re playing.
“I think it is not right that I wasn’t contacted. And I say this with all the appreciation that I have for her.” She added: “I will watch the film anyway. She looks like me.”
A source told the Sunday Mirror: “This film has been Gaga’s passion project for a long time. She is determined to perfect the role and has been working all hours to get her portrayal of Patrizia right.
“It was decided by producers that she wouldn’t meet Patrizia.
“Authorities at the time of the murder didn’t want journalists to interview her as they were afraid of giving her a platform. The same is said for now.
“The producers were very aware of not wanting to endorse or support the awful crime that Patrizia carried out.
“Instead Gaga has spent hours watching footage and documentaries and reading books about her life.”
The film has been more than 10 years in the making, with Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio initially in the running to play the couple.
It is now going ahead with Adam
Driver – Kylo Ren in Star Wars – in the role of Gucci, while Robert De Niro and Al Pacino also star.
Current Gucci president and chief executive officer Marco Bizzarri said the Italian luxury label had opened its archives and given “total creative freedom” to the production.
Gaga – real name Stefani Germanotta – shared a first-look photo of herself and Driver in character in the Alps this month.
She posted it on her Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages, where she has racked up a total of 180 million followers.
The crew have already completed filming in Rome and production has now moved to Milan, where Gucci was gunned down.
The trial of his ex-wife played out like a real-life soap opera, with Reggiani dubbed “Vedova Nera” – the Black Widow – and painted as a bitter,
GLAMOUR Reggiani as Gucci queen
TRIAL Cops guard her in court, 1998 greedy, scorned woman who acted out of revenge and spite.
Despite confessing and serving time for her crime, Reggiani was still entitled to her divorce settlement.
That gives her an annuity of £900,000 a year from Gucci’s estate – and she also won a backpayment of £16million to cover her time in prison.
And while Gaga was taking on one of the fashion world’s most gripping dramas, she also faced a drama of her own – when her two French bulldogs were snatched by a gun gang who shot and injured her dog walker.
The singer put up a $500,000 “no questions asked” reward for the return of dogs Koji and Gustav after the harrowing attack last month was captured by a neighbour’s CCTV.
Jared Leto, who plays fashion designer Paolo Gucci in the new movie, said co-star Gaga was “doing OK” after the safe return of the dogs.
He said: “I mean, she got her dogs back. And that person that was watching the animals is doing better.”
It was a quirk of fate which gave yet another link between Gaga and the subject of her latest role.
Reggiani was left traumatised after her pet ferret Bambi – allowed to join her in prison – died when one of her fellow inmates sat on him.
Since leaving jail she has found a new companion – a macaw which was seen on her shoulder on a visit to Via Monte Napoleone, Milan’s equivalent of London’s Bond Street.
Reggiani visited the fashion quarter wearing dark sunglasses and lashings of gold jewellery soon after her release.
She can still be spotted around the city’s more upscale neighbourhoods with the pet parrot most weekends.
While Gaga has been researching her role, it seems inspiration may never have been far off.
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