Despite repeated attempts, the Justice Department officials kept turning her down, so she did the next best thing: “I wrote letters to her and she answered a lot of my questions this way, Forden said. where she now leads a team of reporters covering tech policy and lobbying.
“I tried to get an interview with Patrizia in person but the prison authorities were worried about her having access to the media,” Forden told me from her office at Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. When Forden and Reggiani reacquainted, Forden was working on a book on the family dynasty and Gucci’s murder. On the morning of March 27, 1995, the 46-year-old Gucci was killed by a gunman in the lobby of his company headquarters on Via Palestro 20, just steps from Milan’s fashion district. It was early 1999, about a year after Reggiani had been convicted and sentenced to 29 years in prison for commissioning Maurizio Gucci’s murder. The next time Forden communicated with Reggiani, she was behind bars in the city’s San Vittore Prison. “The interview was pure vitriol: Patrizia was in a phase where she was worried that Maurizio was going to lose the company.
“Patrizia was on a personal campaign to discredit and destroy Maurizio and had reached out to various media outlets for interviews,” Forden said, referring to Reggiani’s ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, who was head of the famed fashion house at the time. It was 1993, and Reggiani had invited Forden-then the Milan Bureau Chief for Women’s Wear Daily-to sit down with her at her luxury apartment overlooking the fashion capital’s Piazza San Babila. The first time Sara Forden interviewed Italian socialite Patrizia Reggiani, she was in her penthouse, climbing the walls.
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