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
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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. When a new child the fay was born, Gucc (pictured above) would say, acrdg to Sara Gay Forn's book, "The Hoe of Gucci: A Te Story of Madns, Glamour, and Greed, " "Let him smell a piece of leather, for is the smell of his future. The film, which was based on Sara Gay Forn's 2001 book "The Hoe of Gucci" vers the two-and-a-half s of the uple's history, om their first chance enunter to Reggiani hirg an assass to kill Mriz.