On March 27, 1995, Mauricio Gucci was shot dead on the steps leading to his office in Milan,

House of Gucci author, Sara Gay Forden was then working around the corner from Mauricio’s office. The established fashion business journalist would cover the developing trial closely for years.

Michelle Martin meets the author of the mesmerising non-fiction page-turner that was written over 20 years ago and learns how the murder was a fraction of the scandal and twists of the Gucci story that Sara Gay Forden had been unravelling.  

You may have watched House of Gucci, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Al Pacino and Lady Gaga, now meet the woman who wrote the book that started it all.