Hitman who killed fashion icon Maurizio Gucci shoots son in face, turns gun on self: reports
Benedetto Ceraulo, 63, was hosting family at his Pisa, Italy, home for the Easter holidays when the shocking attempted filicide occurred, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.
A family argument broke out on Tuesday — which escalated when the high-fashion hitman allegedly resolved the issue by firing a small-caliber pistol into the face of Gaetano Ceraulo, Il Tirreno reported.
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3 Benedetto Ceraulo pictured in 1995 after his arrest for the shooting of Maurizio Gucci.
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Ceraulo then turned the pistol on himself in the front garden of the Santa Maria a Monte home in an apparent suicide attempt, according to the local reports.
Despite being shot in the face, Gaetano never lost consciousness and managed to drive himself to a bar in a town in the nearby province of Valdinievole, while gushing blood. Once there, he was picked up by first responders and rushed to the hospital, according to Il Tirreno.
He is currently in stable condition after receiving treatment at Felice Lotti Hospital, the outlet reported.
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Meanwhile, his father, Gucci's assassin, remains in very serious condition at Cisanello Hospital in Pisa, Il Tirreno stated.
Ceraulo was convicted alongside another hitman of the 1995 killing of the third-generation Italian fashion house head on orders from the doomed businessman's ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani.
Gucci, 46, was shot to death outside his offices in Milan.
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3 Maurizio Gucci was shot to death outside his offices in Milan in 1995.
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In 2023, Ceraulo was granted semi-liberty after serving only 18 years of his sentence upon condition of participating in a social reintegration project, La Stampa reported.
Reggiani, dubbed the 'Black Widow,' was sentenced to 29 years in prison in 1998, but was released in 2016 after serving just 18 years.
The high-profile assassination became fodder for Hollywood in 2021 when director Ridley Scott's 'House of Gucci' hit the silver screen — much to the dismay of Reggiani and Gucci's daughter, Allegra Gucci.
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The 'bad caricature' of her beloved father inspired the devoted daughter to pen the book 'Game Over' in which she tried to set the record straight on her 'hard working' dad and her 'elegant' mother who was portrayed by Lady Gaga in Scott's film.
3 Patrizia Reggiani, dubbed the 'Black Widow,' ordered the hit on her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci.
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For years, Allegra averred the innocence of her mother, bringing the 'Black Widow' care packages in prison and even being inspired to study law due to what the daughter perceived to be an unjust legal accusation of her mother.
Reggiani eventually admitted to her daughter that she had hired the hitmen to kill Gucci.
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