NPR's David Folkenflik speaks wh Sara Gay Forn about her book, The Hoe of Gucci, which has jt been released as a feature film starrg Lady Gaga and Adam Driver.
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SARA GAY FORN: THE TRAGIC TTH ABOUT THE HOE OF GUCCI MURR
Queerre, the gay punk movement of the mid-1980s lends s name to a new llectn of sho. Played by Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, Patrizia and Mriz are part of a nstellatn of characters the movie, which also clus Mriz’s father, Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons), his uncle Aldo (Al Paco) and Paolo (Jared Leto), among screenplay is creded to Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, om a story by Johnston that adapted Sara Gay Forn’s 2000 book “Hoe of Gucci: A Sensatnal Story of Murr, Madns, Glamour and Greed. The film was adapted om journalist Sara Gay Forn’s 2001 nonfictn book of the same name, which chronicled the sensatnal real-life story of the fabuloly wealthy Gucci fay’s rise and fall as one of fashn’s most proment dynasti.
We may never know the full Gucci tth about what transpired the years before Mriz’s ath, and Sara Gay Forn’s adapted book Hoe of Gucci: A Sensatnal Story of Murr, Madns, Glamour, and Greed was never thorized by the fay. Acrdg to Gay Forn’s book, the task of fg Rodolfo’s signature on five share certifit fell to Rodolfo’s longtime secretary Roberta Cassol, whom Mriz asked to do the ed. ” Her passag differ om the acunts llected Gay Forn’s book, on which the film script was based.