Fact Check: Was Lee Migl Gay?

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• FACT CHECK: WAS LEE MIGL GAY?
• THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: THE MYSTER MURR OF LEE MIGLWEDNDAY’S AMERIN CRIME STORY TRODUC THE MOST MYSTER OF ANDREW CUNANAN’S VICTIMS: LEE MIGL.BY JULIE MILLERJANUARY 31, 2018LARGE PHOTO, URTY OF FX; SET, OM A.P. IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETWO MONTHS BEFORE ANDREW CUNANAN KILLED GIANNI VERSACE, ANOTHER MURR WAS ALREADY MAKG NATNAL HEADL—THE SAVAGE KILLG OF LEE MIGL, A SELF-MA REAL-TATE TYON. AUTHORI DID NOT IMMEDIATELY LK CUNANAN TO THE KILLG—HIS THIRD MURR A SPREE THAT SPANNED OM MNEAPOLIS TO MIAMI. EVEN SO, THE REAL-TATE VELOPER’S AFFLUENCE, HIS POSN AS A PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY FIXTURE ALONGSI HIS HOME SHOPPG NETWORK EMPRS WIFE, MARILYN MIGL, AND MYSTER CIRCUMSTANC MA THE KILLG THE FOC OF TENSE MEDIA TERT.ON MAY 4, THE TONIT NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHIGO, MIGL WAS MURRED AT THE PROPERTY HE SHARED WH HIS WIFE WHILE SHE WAS OUT OF TOWN ON BS. THE CHIGO TRIBUNE REPORTED THAT MIGL’S BODY “WAS DISVERED A TACHED GARAGE, TUCKED UNR A R AND OBSCURED BY A TRASH N. MIGL’S FEET WERE BOUND TOGETHER AND HIS FACE WAS REFULLY WRAPPED MASKG TAPE, EXCEPT FOR A HOLE FOR HIS NOSE, SOURC SAID. THE MASKG TAPE WAS SOAKED BLOOD, AS WERE MIGL’S SHOULRS AND CHT, SOURC SAID.”“THE MURR WAS BTAL AND HAD GRISLY, RUALISTIC OVERTON: MIGL’S HANDS AND FEET WERE BOUND, AND HIS BODY WAS PARTIALLY WRAPPED PLASTIC, BROWN PAPER, AND TAPE,” WROTE VANY FAIR NTRIBUTOR MREEN ORTH. “HIS RIBS HAD BEEN BROKEN, AND HE HAD BEEN TORTURED WH FOUR STABS THE CHT, PROBABLY WH GARN SHEARS. HIS THROAT HAD BEEN CUT OPEN WH A GARN BOW SAW. ACRDG TO IENDS, HOWEVER, THE TOPSY REVEALED NO SEXUAL MOLTATN.”WHEN MIGL’S 96-YEAR-OLD MOTHER, ANNA, HEARD THE TAILS, SHE TOLD PRS THAT HER SON HAD “DIED A WORSE ATH THAN CHRIST.”PERHAPS EVEN MORE MYSTER THAN THE MURR SCENE, HOWEVER, WAS THE NDN OF THE MIGLS’ HOME WHEN MARILYN RETURNED TO . ACRDG TO ORTH, THE MURRER HAD SLEPT MIGL’S BED, EATEN A HAM SANDWICH THE LIBRARY, SHAVED THE BATHROOM, AND BATHED THE BATHTUB. THE KILLER, APPEARED, HAD BEEN NO HURRY TO LEAVE THE DUPLEX—AND WHEN HE DID, HE IS SAID TO HAVE HELPED HIMSELF TO AS MUCH AS $10,000 SH AND SEVERAL OF HIS VICTIM’S SUS. THE TAILS, ALONG WH THE FACTS THAT MIGL DID NOT HAVE FENSIVE WOUNDS AND THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF FORCED ENTRY THE HOME, SUGGTED THAT MIGL MIGHT HAVE KNOWN HIS KILLER, OR IMMEDIATELY ACQUICED TO A THREATENG TR.IN HER BOOK VULGAR FAVORS: ANDREW CUNANAN, GIANNI VERSACE, AND THE LARGT FAILED MANHUNT U.S. HISTORY, ORTH CLUD MORE TAILS ABOUT THE CRIME SCENE: THAT A TUBE OF HYDRORTISONE CREAM WAS FOUND UNR MIGL’S BODY; HE WAS WEARG CALV KLE BIKI UNRWEAR, JEANS (WH AN OPEN ZIPPER), AND JT ONE FERRAGAMO BLACK SUE SHOE. HIS ANKL WERE BOUND BY AN ORANGE EXTENSN RD, HIS CHT WAS WEIGHED DOWN BY TWO BAGS OF CEMENT, AND “THE WRAPPG OF MIGL’S FACE REMBLED THE LATEX MASKS ANDREW SEEMED SO TRIGUED WH OM WATCHG S&M PORNOGRAPHY.”ONCE POLICE FOUND CUNANAN’S STOLEN JEEP PARKED AROUND THE RNER OM THE MIGLS’ HOME—LKG CUNANAN TO THE CRIME—THEY DISVERED SEVERAL OTHER CLU SI: A PY OF OUT MAGAZE AND A TOURIST PAMPHLET.WH THE BENEF OF HDSIGHT, ORTH’S BOOK, AND ADDNAL REARCH, THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY WRER TOM ROB SMH VIEWS MIGL’S MURR AS BEG UNIQUELY REFLECTIVE OF CUNANAN’S PERSONALY.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BIS“THE MURR OF LEE MIGL IS FULL OF ANDREW’S MONSTRO THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW HE’S FUR WH THE WORLD AND HOW HE’S ATTACKG BOTH THE REPUTATN AND THE SUCCS OF LEE MIGL,” SMH TOLD VANY FAIR . “AND THAT AGA IS SPOKEN TO BY THE WOMEN’S CLOTHG, THE PORNOGRAPHY LEFT AROUND THE BODY OF LEE MIGL. IN THE SAME WAY THAT TERRORISTS TRY TO TALK TO THE WORLD, ANDREW’S TRYG TO TALK TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE MONSTRO ACTS.”“LEE MIGL REALLY WAS AN EXTRAORDARY EMBODIMENT OF THE AMERIN DREAM,” ADD SMH. THE FUTURE MOGUL SOLD PANKE BATTER OUT OF THE TNK OF HIS R BEFORE FDG REAL TATE.“I FOUND VERY SPIRATNAL READG ABOUT HIS JOURNEY OM BEG THE SEVENTH CHILD OF A AL MER WHO WAS WORTH NOTHG, EARNG HIS WAY TO THE HEIGHTS OF CHIGO SOCIETY THROUGH TENACY AND BRILLIANCE AND THE AMOUNT HE GAVE BACK.”SPEAKG ABOUT THE EXTREMELY VLENT NATURE OF THE MURR, SMH REASONED, “IF YOU N’T MUNITE TO THE WORLD THROUGH CREATN, YOU MUNITE THROUGH STCTN. AND THAT’S HOW A VERY CLEVER, GENUELY CLEVER YOUNG MAN WHO HAD NEVER HURT ANYONE END UP DOG THIS HORRIFIC, HORRIFIC THG. THE PROCS SEEMS MUCH CLOSER TO RADILIZATN AND TERRORISM THAN IS TO THE PATHOLOGY OF A SERIAL KILLER.”IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MURR, REPORTERS AND THORI TRIED TO FD A LK BETWEEN MIGL, WHO APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN HAPPILY MARRIED FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS, AND CUNANAN. CUNANAN HAD A HISTORY OF BEG “KEPT” BY WEALTHY OLR BOYIENDS, AND WAS MORED TO HAVE WORKED AS AN RT. WAS MIGL ONE OF THE MEN CUNANAN RENZ-VO-ED WH DURG HIS DAYS ON THE “SUGAR DADDY” CIRCU?AUTHORI ALSO QUTNED MIGL’S SURVIVG SON, DE, A HANDSOME ACTOR AT THE TIME. ACRDG TO ORTH, CUNANAN HAD SUALLY NAME-DROPPED DE—AND AN UNNAMED “RICH FAY CHIGO”—ON SEVERAL OCSNS HIS LIE-FILLED NVERSATNS WH FAY AND IENDS. THERE WERE SUGGTNS THAT CUNANAN ULD HAVE KNOWN MIGL: ONE OF MIGLS’ NEIGHBORS TOLD ORTH THAT SHE SAW MIGL DURG THE WEEKEND OF HIS MURR “WH A YOUNG MAN WH DARK FEATUR WEARG A BASEBALL HAT.” A SEX WORKER ALSO TOLD ORTH ABOUT BEG HIRED TWICE BY A MAN NAMED “LEE”—WHOM THE WORKER BELIEVED TO BE MIGL.INVTIGATORS SPECTED A RELATNSHIP BETWEEN KILLER AND VICTIM AS WELL.“WHY WOULD CUNANAN GO TO CHIGO, FD MIGL, AND TORTURE HIM WHOUT SOME MOTIVE?” VTIGATOR TODD RIVARD OF THE CHIGO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT ASKED ORTH, TTG THE LOGIC OF THE KILLG BEG RANDOM. GREGG MCCRARY, SENR NSULTANT OF THE THREAT ASSSMENT GROUP AND FORMER SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT OF THE F.B.I.’S BEHAVRAL SCIENC UN, ADD, “I’D SAY ’S HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT [CUNANAN] KNEW MIGL. WOULD THIS GUY LET SOME STRANGER OFF THE STREET? THE ANSWER IS NO. EHER [CUNANAN] KNEW OF THE GUY OR KNEW HIS SON. THE IA THAT HE JT PICKED HIM UP OFF THE STREET AND STALKED HIM AND TORTURED HIM AND THEN KILLED HIM IS BIZARRE—NOT THE MOST LIKELY SCENAR.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISAS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HOWEVER, DE MIGL MATAED THAT THERE WAS NO NNECTN BETWEEN HIS FATHER AND CUNANAN BEFORE THE MURR.“THERE WAS NO RELATNSHIP WHATSOEVER,” DE MIGL TOLD ABC, ADDG THAT ANY REPORTS TO THE NTRARY WERE “VERY HURTFUL, VERY PAFUL, FOR ME PERSONALLY . . . THERE WERE ATTACKS ON ME AS WELL THAT I REALLY DIDN’T APPRECIATE. AND I STILL DON’T.”EVEN REPORTERS AT THE TIME WERE LEFT STYMIED, LIKE JOHN CARPENTER, THE LEAD REPORTER ON THE STORY AT THE CHIGO SUN-TIM. “TO ME, WHAT EVERYBODY ALWAYS FELT WAS THAT WAS CLEARLY SOMEBODY WHO KNEW THAT MARILYN MIGL WAS AWAY FOR THE WEEKEND,” CARPENTER TOLD THE CHIGO SUN-TIM THIS WEEK. (MIGL’S FAY HAS MATAED THAT THE KILLER ULD HAVE KNOWN MARILYN WAS OUT OF TOWN BY LISTENED TO A VOICEMAIL SHE LEFT FOR HER HBAND, ALERTG HIM OF WHAT TIME SHE WOULD RETURN TO CHIGO ON SUNDAY.)THOUGH THE FAY MATAS THAT THE MURR WAS RANDOM, THE CREATORS OF AMERIN CRIME STORY CLEARLY BELIEVED DIFFERENTLY—AS EVINCED BY WEDNDAY’S EPISO, WHICH SUGGTS CUNANAN AND MIGL HAD A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.AMERIN CRIME STORY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRAD SIMPSON SAID THIS WEEK THAT THE EPISO “DRAMATIZE[S] WHAT WE BELIEVE HAPPENED THAT WEEKEND STARTG OM THE TABLISHED FACTS OF THE CRIME SCENE. BASED ON THE EVINCE, WE BELIEVE THAT LEE AND ANDREW DID KNOW EACH OTHER, AND [THAT] ANDREW’S ATTACK, AS WH ALL HIS VICTIMS EXCEPT FOR WILLIAM REE, WAS TARGETED AND SPECIFIC. WE ED MREEN ORTH’S BOOK AND NSULTANCY, AS WELL AS THE FBI RERDS AND THE STATEMENTS OM WNS SI THE RERDS FOR REARCH AND BACKGROUND.”WHEN ASKED WHETHER SHE FELT ANY NFLICT OVER THE SERI PICTG LEE MIGL AS GAY— DIRECT NTRADICTN TO THE MSAGE THE MIGL FAY HAS STUCK WH SCE HIS ATH—ACTRS JUDH LIGHT WHO PORTRAYED MIGL’S WIFE MARILYN THE EPISO, TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST: “I DON’T NTRADICT . THAT’S NOT MY BS. THAT’S FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT AND TO DISCS. . .I WOULD NEVER, EVER ADD ANYTHG TO A DYNAMIC OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERG THROUGH A TRAGEDY.”ACTOR MIKE FARRELL, WHO PLAYS MIGL, SAID THAT “A FURTHER MANIFTATN OF THE HORROR OF” THE MURR IS “A KD OF ABILY OR UNWILLGNS TO ACCEPT WHAT I THK IS A VERY REAL AND VERY NATURAL PART OF THIS MAN’S LIFE.”IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MURR, MARILYN, WORKED THROUGH HER GRIEF BY THROWG HERSELF BACK TO WORK—APPEARG ON THE HOME SHOPPG NETWORK JT THREE WEEKS AFTER THE FUNERAL.“I JT AGONIZED OVER , BUT I WAS TERMED TO NOT LET ADVERSY AFFECT MY LIFE, SO I GOT ON THAT PLANE FEELG MORE ALONE THAN I EVER FELT MY ENTIRE LIFE. . . I CID THAT I WOULD HI ONT OF THE MERA,” MARILYN TOLD PRS 1998, EXPLAG WHY SHE RETURNED TO WORK SO QUICKLY.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISA FORMER MOL AND DANCER WHO BUILT A $50 LN SMETICS EMPIRE AND EARNED THE NICKNAME “THE QUEEN OF MAKEOVERS,” MARILYN WAS FIRM HER REFAL TO BELIEVE THE MORS ABOUT LEE, SAYG, “WE DON’T EVEN THK ABOUT . WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE STAND FOR.”SPEAKG ABOUT HER UNWILLGNS TO LET HER HBAND’S MURR STROY HER, SHE TOLD THE PAPER, “I WILL NOT LET ONE EVIL FORCE N MY LIFE . . . I WON’T ACQUICE TO THAT.” AS FOR THE FACT THAT—LIKE DONATELLA VERSACE THE AFTERMATH OF HER BROTHER’S MURR—SHE DID NOT SHOW THE WORLD SHE WAS MOURNG, MARILYN SAID, “WEEPG PUBLICLY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR ME OR MY FAY . . . SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE CHARGE.”THE VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY CAST AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONLEFT, BY DAVID LE/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTN; RIGHT, BY RACHEL MURRAY, BOTH OM GETTY IMAG.ÉDGAR RAMíREZ AS GIANNI VERSACETHE EMMY NOMEE STARS AS THE LIMED SERI’S NAMAKE, THE FLAMBOYANT SIGNER MURRED MIAMI AT THE PEAK OF HIS REER.JULIE MILLER

FACT CHECK: WAS LEE MIGL GAY?

ClaimThe Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story claim Lee Migl is gayRatgUnprovenOrigThe Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story retold Andrew Cunanan’s third murr the latt episo.

Lee Migl, a wealthy Chigo bsman, is picted as gay the seri. Was Lee Migl gay?

In ACS, Migl is shown to be secretly gay and allegedly knew Cunanan.

THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: THE MYSTER MURR OF LEE MIGLWEDNDAY’S AMERIN CRIME STORY TRODUC THE MOST MYSTER OF ANDREW CUNANAN’S VICTIMS: LEE MIGL.BY JULIE MILLERJANUARY 31, 2018LARGE PHOTO, URTY OF FX; SET, OM A.P. IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETWO MONTHS BEFORE ANDREW CUNANAN KILLED GIANNI VERSACE, ANOTHER MURR WAS ALREADY MAKG NATNAL HEADL—THE SAVAGE KILLG OF LEE MIGL, A SELF-MA REAL-TATE TYON. AUTHORI DID NOT IMMEDIATELY LK CUNANAN TO THE KILLG—HIS THIRD MURR A SPREE THAT SPANNED OM MNEAPOLIS TO MIAMI. EVEN SO, THE REAL-TATE VELOPER’S AFFLUENCE, HIS POSN AS A PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY FIXTURE ALONGSI HIS HOME SHOPPG NETWORK EMPRS WIFE, MARILYN MIGL, AND MYSTER CIRCUMSTANC MA THE KILLG THE FOC OF TENSE MEDIA TERT.ON MAY 4, THE TONIT NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHIGO, MIGL WAS MURRED AT THE PROPERTY HE SHARED WH HIS WIFE WHILE SHE WAS OUT OF TOWN ON BS. THE CHIGO TRIBUNE REPORTED THAT MIGL’S BODY “WAS DISVERED A TACHED GARAGE, TUCKED UNR A R AND OBSCURED BY A TRASH N. MIGL’S FEET WERE BOUND TOGETHER AND HIS FACE WAS REFULLY WRAPPED MASKG TAPE, EXCEPT FOR A HOLE FOR HIS NOSE, SOURC SAID. THE MASKG TAPE WAS SOAKED BLOOD, AS WERE MIGL’S SHOULRS AND CHT, SOURC SAID.”“THE MURR WAS BTAL AND HAD GRISLY, RUALISTIC OVERTON: MIGL’S HANDS AND FEET WERE BOUND, AND HIS BODY WAS PARTIALLY WRAPPED PLASTIC, BROWN PAPER, AND TAPE,” WROTE VANY FAIR NTRIBUTOR MREEN ORTH. “HIS RIBS HAD BEEN BROKEN, AND HE HAD BEEN TORTURED WH FOUR STABS THE CHT, PROBABLY WH GARN SHEARS. HIS THROAT HAD BEEN CUT OPEN WH A GARN BOW SAW. ACRDG TO IENDS, HOWEVER, THE TOPSY REVEALED NO SEXUAL MOLTATN.”WHEN MIGL’S 96-YEAR-OLD MOTHER, ANNA, HEARD THE TAILS, SHE TOLD PRS THAT HER SON HAD “DIED A WORSE ATH THAN CHRIST.”PERHAPS EVEN MORE MYSTER THAN THE MURR SCENE, HOWEVER, WAS THE NDN OF THE MIGLS’ HOME WHEN MARILYN RETURNED TO . ACRDG TO ORTH, THE MURRER HAD SLEPT MIGL’S BED, EATEN A HAM SANDWICH THE LIBRARY, SHAVED THE BATHROOM, AND BATHED THE BATHTUB. THE KILLER, APPEARED, HAD BEEN NO HURRY TO LEAVE THE DUPLEX—AND WHEN HE DID, HE IS SAID TO HAVE HELPED HIMSELF TO AS MUCH AS $10,000 SH AND SEVERAL OF HIS VICTIM’S SUS. THE TAILS, ALONG WH THE FACTS THAT MIGL DID NOT HAVE FENSIVE WOUNDS AND THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF FORCED ENTRY THE HOME, SUGGTED THAT MIGL MIGHT HAVE KNOWN HIS KILLER, OR IMMEDIATELY ACQUICED TO A THREATENG TR.IN HER BOOK VULGAR FAVORS: ANDREW CUNANAN, GIANNI VERSACE, AND THE LARGT FAILED MANHUNT U.S. HISTORY, ORTH CLUD MORE TAILS ABOUT THE CRIME SCENE: THAT A TUBE OF HYDRORTISONE CREAM WAS FOUND UNR MIGL’S BODY; HE WAS WEARG CALV KLE BIKI UNRWEAR, JEANS (WH AN OPEN ZIPPER), AND JT ONE FERRAGAMO BLACK SUE SHOE. HIS ANKL WERE BOUND BY AN ORANGE EXTENSN RD, HIS CHT WAS WEIGHED DOWN BY TWO BAGS OF CEMENT, AND “THE WRAPPG OF MIGL’S FACE REMBLED THE LATEX MASKS ANDREW SEEMED SO TRIGUED WH OM WATCHG S&M PORNOGRAPHY.”ONCE POLICE FOUND CUNANAN’S STOLEN JEEP PARKED AROUND THE RNER OM THE MIGLS’ HOME—LKG CUNANAN TO THE CRIME—THEY DISVERED SEVERAL OTHER CLU SI: A PY OF OUT MAGAZE AND A TOURIST PAMPHLET.WH THE BENEF OF HDSIGHT, ORTH’S BOOK, AND ADDNAL REARCH, THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY WRER TOM ROB SMH VIEWS MIGL’S MURR AS BEG UNIQUELY REFLECTIVE OF CUNANAN’S PERSONALY.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BIS“THE MURR OF LEE MIGL IS FULL OF ANDREW’S MONSTRO THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW HE’S FUR WH THE WORLD AND HOW HE’S ATTACKG BOTH THE REPUTATN AND THE SUCCS OF LEE MIGL,” SMH TOLD VANY FAIR . “AND THAT AGA IS SPOKEN TO BY THE WOMEN’S CLOTHG, THE PORNOGRAPHY LEFT AROUND THE BODY OF LEE MIGL. IN THE SAME WAY THAT TERRORISTS TRY TO TALK TO THE WORLD, ANDREW’S TRYG TO TALK TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE MONSTRO ACTS.”“LEE MIGL REALLY WAS AN EXTRAORDARY EMBODIMENT OF THE AMERIN DREAM,” ADD SMH. THE FUTURE MOGUL SOLD PANKE BATTER OUT OF THE TNK OF HIS R BEFORE FDG REAL TATE.“I FOUND VERY SPIRATNAL READG ABOUT HIS JOURNEY OM BEG THE SEVENTH CHILD OF A AL MER WHO WAS WORTH NOTHG, EARNG HIS WAY TO THE HEIGHTS OF CHIGO SOCIETY THROUGH TENACY AND BRILLIANCE AND THE AMOUNT HE GAVE BACK.”SPEAKG ABOUT THE EXTREMELY VLENT NATURE OF THE MURR, SMH REASONED, “IF YOU N’T MUNITE TO THE WORLD THROUGH CREATN, YOU MUNITE THROUGH STCTN. AND THAT’S HOW A VERY CLEVER, GENUELY CLEVER YOUNG MAN WHO HAD NEVER HURT ANYONE END UP DOG THIS HORRIFIC, HORRIFIC THG. THE PROCS SEEMS MUCH CLOSER TO RADILIZATN AND TERRORISM THAN IS TO THE PATHOLOGY OF A SERIAL KILLER.”IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MURR, REPORTERS AND THORI TRIED TO FD A LK BETWEEN MIGL, WHO APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN HAPPILY MARRIED FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS, AND CUNANAN. CUNANAN HAD A HISTORY OF BEG “KEPT” BY WEALTHY OLR BOYIENDS, AND WAS MORED TO HAVE WORKED AS AN RT. WAS MIGL ONE OF THE MEN CUNANAN RENZ-VO-ED WH DURG HIS DAYS ON THE “SUGAR DADDY” CIRCU?AUTHORI ALSO QUTNED MIGL’S SURVIVG SON, DE, A HANDSOME ACTOR AT THE TIME. ACRDG TO ORTH, CUNANAN HAD SUALLY NAME-DROPPED DE—AND AN UNNAMED “RICH FAY CHIGO”—ON SEVERAL OCSNS HIS LIE-FILLED NVERSATNS WH FAY AND IENDS. THERE WERE SUGGTNS THAT CUNANAN ULD HAVE KNOWN MIGL: ONE OF MIGLS’ NEIGHBORS TOLD ORTH THAT SHE SAW MIGL DURG THE WEEKEND OF HIS MURR “WH A YOUNG MAN WH DARK FEATUR WEARG A BASEBALL HAT.” A SEX WORKER ALSO TOLD ORTH ABOUT BEG HIRED TWICE BY A MAN NAMED “LEE”—WHOM THE WORKER BELIEVED TO BE MIGL.INVTIGATORS SPECTED A RELATNSHIP BETWEEN KILLER AND VICTIM AS WELL.“WHY WOULD CUNANAN GO TO CHIGO, FD MIGL, AND TORTURE HIM WHOUT SOME MOTIVE?” VTIGATOR TODD RIVARD OF THE CHIGO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT ASKED ORTH, TTG THE LOGIC OF THE KILLG BEG RANDOM. GREGG MCCRARY, SENR NSULTANT OF THE THREAT ASSSMENT GROUP AND FORMER SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT OF THE F.B.I.’S BEHAVRAL SCIENC UN, ADD, “I’D SAY ’S HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT [CUNANAN] KNEW MIGL. WOULD THIS GUY LET SOME STRANGER OFF THE STREET? THE ANSWER IS NO. EHER [CUNANAN] KNEW OF THE GUY OR KNEW HIS SON. THE IA THAT HE JT PICKED HIM UP OFF THE STREET AND STALKED HIM AND TORTURED HIM AND THEN KILLED HIM IS BIZARRE—NOT THE MOST LIKELY SCENAR.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISAS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR, HOWEVER, DE MIGL MATAED THAT THERE WAS NO NNECTN BETWEEN HIS FATHER AND CUNANAN BEFORE THE MURR.“THERE WAS NO RELATNSHIP WHATSOEVER,” DE MIGL TOLD ABC, ADDG THAT ANY REPORTS TO THE NTRARY WERE “VERY HURTFUL, VERY PAFUL, FOR ME PERSONALLY . . . THERE WERE ATTACKS ON ME AS WELL THAT I REALLY DIDN’T APPRECIATE. AND I STILL DON’T.”EVEN REPORTERS AT THE TIME WERE LEFT STYMIED, LIKE JOHN CARPENTER, THE LEAD REPORTER ON THE STORY AT THE CHIGO SUN-TIM. “TO ME, WHAT EVERYBODY ALWAYS FELT WAS THAT WAS CLEARLY SOMEBODY WHO KNEW THAT MARILYN MIGL WAS AWAY FOR THE WEEKEND,” CARPENTER TOLD THE CHIGO SUN-TIM THIS WEEK. (MIGL’S FAY HAS MATAED THAT THE KILLER ULD HAVE KNOWN MARILYN WAS OUT OF TOWN BY LISTENED TO A VOICEMAIL SHE LEFT FOR HER HBAND, ALERTG HIM OF WHAT TIME SHE WOULD RETURN TO CHIGO ON SUNDAY.)THOUGH THE FAY MATAS THAT THE MURR WAS RANDOM, THE CREATORS OF AMERIN CRIME STORY CLEARLY BELIEVED DIFFERENTLY—AS EVINCED BY WEDNDAY’S EPISO, WHICH SUGGTS CUNANAN AND MIGL HAD A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.AMERIN CRIME STORY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRAD SIMPSON SAID THIS WEEK THAT THE EPISO “DRAMATIZE[S] WHAT WE BELIEVE HAPPENED THAT WEEKEND STARTG OM THE TABLISHED FACTS OF THE CRIME SCENE. BASED ON THE EVINCE, WE BELIEVE THAT LEE AND ANDREW DID KNOW EACH OTHER, AND [THAT] ANDREW’S ATTACK, AS WH ALL HIS VICTIMS EXCEPT FOR WILLIAM REE, WAS TARGETED AND SPECIFIC. WE ED MREEN ORTH’S BOOK AND NSULTANCY, AS WELL AS THE FBI RERDS AND THE STATEMENTS OM WNS SI THE RERDS FOR REARCH AND BACKGROUND.”WHEN ASKED WHETHER SHE FELT ANY NFLICT OVER THE SERI PICTG LEE MIGL AS GAY— DIRECT NTRADICTN TO THE MSAGE THE MIGL FAY HAS STUCK WH SCE HIS ATH—ACTRS JUDH LIGHT WHO PORTRAYED MIGL’S WIFE MARILYN THE EPISO, TOLD VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST: “I DON’T NTRADICT . THAT’S NOT MY BS. THAT’S FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT AND TO DISCS. . .I WOULD NEVER, EVER ADD ANYTHG TO A DYNAMIC OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERG THROUGH A TRAGEDY.”ACTOR MIKE FARRELL, WHO PLAYS MIGL, SAID THAT “A FURTHER MANIFTATN OF THE HORROR OF” THE MURR IS “A KD OF ABILY OR UNWILLGNS TO ACCEPT WHAT I THK IS A VERY REAL AND VERY NATURAL PART OF THIS MAN’S LIFE.”IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MURR, MARILYN, WORKED THROUGH HER GRIEF BY THROWG HERSELF BACK TO WORK—APPEARG ON THE HOME SHOPPG NETWORK JT THREE WEEKS AFTER THE FUNERAL.“I JT AGONIZED OVER , BUT I WAS TERMED TO NOT LET ADVERSY AFFECT MY LIFE, SO I GOT ON THAT PLANE FEELG MORE ALONE THAN I EVER FELT MY ENTIRE LIFE. . . I CID THAT I WOULD HI ONT OF THE MERA,” MARILYN TOLD PRS 1998, EXPLAG WHY SHE RETURNED TO WORK SO QUICKLY.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISA FORMER MOL AND DANCER WHO BUILT A $50 LN SMETICS EMPIRE AND EARNED THE NICKNAME “THE QUEEN OF MAKEOVERS,” MARILYN WAS FIRM HER REFAL TO BELIEVE THE MORS ABOUT LEE, SAYG, “WE DON’T EVEN THK ABOUT . WE KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE STAND FOR.”SPEAKG ABOUT HER UNWILLGNS TO LET HER HBAND’S MURR STROY HER, SHE TOLD THE PAPER, “I WILL NOT LET ONE EVIL FORCE N MY LIFE . . . I WON’T ACQUICE TO THAT.” AS FOR THE FACT THAT—LIKE DONATELLA VERSACE THE AFTERMATH OF HER BROTHER’S MURR—SHE DID NOT SHOW THE WORLD SHE WAS MOURNG, MARILYN SAID, “WEEPG PUBLICLY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR ME OR MY FAY . . . SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE CHARGE.”THE VERSACE: AMERIN CRIME STORY CAST AND THEIR REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS1 / 7CHEVRONCHEVRONLEFT, BY DAVID LE/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTN; RIGHT, BY RACHEL MURRAY, BOTH OM GETTY IMAG.ÉDGAR RAMíREZ AS GIANNI VERSACETHE EMMY NOMEE STARS AS THE LIMED SERI’S NAMAKE, THE FLAMBOYANT SIGNER MURRED MIAMI AT THE PEAK OF HIS REER.JULIE MILLER

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