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...would contradict Carreira's claim he had not been at the houseboat for five days, and would indicate a possible connection with Cunanan. Police are treating Dudley's story with care, noting that she takes high doses of blood pressure medication, and wondering why she called police immediately after Gianni Versace was shot to death. If her account holds up, Carreira may be forced to forfeit the cash put up by the FBI and the Miami Beach police for information leading to Cunanan's arrest. Carreira's attorney, James Loren, called Dudley's account "hogwash...
...death of a fashion innovator does not necessarily spell doom for the company that bears his or her name. The fashion houses founded by Coco Chanel and Guccio Gucci, for example, continue to thrive long after their founders' passing. Yet such was the force of Gianni Versace's personality, life-style and flair for publicity, that the question of succession is more pertinent than ever: Without Versace, can his empire survive...
Certainly, at his death, the designer was at the height of his powers, with his fashion house stitching together numbers as eye catching as its merchandise. The profits of Gianni Versace SpA, which puts its Medusa-head logo on everything from $15,000 evening gowns to $395 bath-towel sets, soared from $7.9 million in 1990 to $43.5 million in 1996. Worldwide sales of Versace-brand products, including items manufactured by licensed companies, are on track to top $1 billion this year...
...with Gianni out of the picture, it falls to elder brother Santo, 53, and sister Donatella, 42, to keep the company's fashions and earnings hot. The family members are thoroughly versed in the business. Santo, an accountant by training, is the savvy CEO of the company, and the pineapple-blond Donatella, as vice president and a designer in her own right, has played an increasingly large role in matters of fashion. "Gianni was the genius, but they can still go ahead," says designer Donatella Girombelli, who gave Versace his first job in Milan...
Miami bureau chief Tammerlin Drummond was sipping coffee and scanning the wires last Tuesday when the bulletin flashed: Gianni Versace had been shot. Drummond dashed out the door and drove straight to the designer's South Beach villa, where his blood still stained the front steps. What she discovered there was more like a Versace catwalk than a crime scene. "It was totally surreal," says Drummond. "There was a squirrel on a leash perched atop a man's head. A dachshund wearing a necklace pranced about, and models were everywhere, mugging for the cameras...