‘Black Widow’ Passes on Parole Because ‘It Would Mean Getting A Job’
- Posted on October 20, 2011 at 6:57am by
Becket Adams
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Remember Patrizia Gucci? She was the wife who arranged for the murder of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci, heir and CEO of the Gucci empire.
That’s why they call her the “Black Widow.”
Since being found guilty in 1998 for organizing her ex-husband’s death, she has spent the last 13 years in prison watering her plants and tending to the needs of her pet ferret.
And now she is eligible for parole. After 13 years behind bars you would assume she’d would jump at the chance for her freedom, right? Well, you assumed wrong.
She has rejected the offer, reportedly telling the parole board at San Vittore: “No thanks as it would mean getting a job and I have never worked a day in my life,” reports the Daily Mail. “‘I would prefer to stay in my cell and water my plants,” she added.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Years before she hired the hitman, she was known for her extravagant and privileged lifestyle.
As the story goes, Patrizia Gucci decided to have Maurizio Gucci killed because he had left her for a younger woman and she was dissatisfied with her $650,000 divorce settlement. She claimed that the amount offered was far too little; she was aiming for at least $1 million.
According to the The Gaurdian, because she was enraged at being left for a younger woman and because the settlement amount was unsatisfactory, “She . . . plotted her ex-husband’s death in league with a bizarre assortment of low-life accomplices, including a fortune teller from Naples and the night porter at a down-at-heel Milan hotel.”
In 1995, Maurizio Gucci was shot to death in front of his office.
After his murder, and all signs pointing to the embittered ex-wife as the mastermind, she was found guilty and sentenced to 29 years in prison. However, since the original sentencing, it has been reduced to 26 years on appeal.
As one would expect, the high-profile murder case attracted a media frenzy.
But after being locked away for so long, many have forgotten her lavish lifestyle (she reportedly showed up everyday in court wearing a different designer outfit) and she has fallen more or less into obscurity as far as the U.S. is concerned.
Earlier this week, Gucci’s lawyer Danilo Boungiorno said she had been offered work in a restaurant or gym as part of her parole agreement, but had turned them both down and he added: “She would prefer to stay in jail and make use of the weekend visits she is granted to see her family.”
It seems that she was serious when she famously said “I’d rather cry in a Rolls than be happy on a bicycle.”
Although it’s difficult to imagine that prison is anything like the “Rolls” she was talking about.
(H/T Business Insider)
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Comments (42)
georgeisn6
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:54pmperfect example of a democrat voter, says, I want my stuff and you can take your job and shove it
Report Post »oldwmn
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 11:26amShe is sitting in a jail cell in ROME ITALY who gives a crap what they do there YOUR TAX DOLLARS are NOT paying for her expenses , do you want the UN Blue Berets to come here and start telling you how to run your jails in USA…its not your problem ITALY can do whatever it damn well pleases
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 11:24amWhat a spineless bum.
Report Post »Heck62
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 10:36amI’d rather work than sit in a cell all day.
Report Post »Pardawg
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 10:25amWhat? A pet and plants in PRISON? Good grief. Take it away and send her back out if she’s served her time. No reason for everyone else to pay for her freeloading.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 10:31amIf they release her, what’s to stop her from killing some innocent person just to get back into prison. It’s clear she had no moral conscience and enjoys her current lifestyle.
Report Post »orangestate
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 10:20amWhy can’t she be released to occupy Wall Street?
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:27amJust goes to prove that jail must be better than getting alot of money. So we need to improve our jail system. Put um on the road in a chain gang like they use too.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:20amI feel sorry for the ferret..
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:19amThis story is as annoying as the pop ups telling you the “next story”!.Do you people running this site know the pop up BLOCKS the advertising? I mean who would advertise when it’s blocked from sight?
Report Post »burr99
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:53amSorta explaines why so many people that get on social programs never get off eh. Just sayin…
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:34amGive her ‘hard labor’ without parole………. And a bicycle.
Report Post »cayenne523
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:34amA bicycle without a seat.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:30am” I’d rather cry in a Rolls then be happy on a bicycle”
Proverbs17:1….Better a dry crust with peace and quiet
than a house full of feasting, with strife.
Repent: to turn around/change direction, and change your thinking, feel regret/sorrow
Report Post »LORD; this woman needs your help!
~This message is posted with a prayer~
That prayer… that tears of repentance would water her plants
that she would come to know you,
and your joy would fill her heart,
that she would buy a bike,
with the money she earned,
and ride it, and be happy!
hi
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:47amAmen. She needs Christ.
Report Post »LouisVet
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:26amShe is in a jail in Milan, Italy not in the U.S.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:25amCushy cells these days, wouldn’t you say?
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:15am..I’d say“follow the money” and you would see why her life is so cushy.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:13amApparently she finds freedom anmd responsibility to be a greater prison than actual state confinment. Why should we play along in letting her dictate the manner of her confinement? Give her a life sentence of actual LIFE on the outside where she has to fend for herself.
The “punishment” would be so sweet in its spiritual and moral irony. Didn’t the Israelites want to go back to slavery?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:11amSee how well that government education works, she’s not stupid, 3 hots and a cot for free and that’s all you need. Totally rehabilitated.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:02amI did not know you could have plants and PETS in Prison…..Who pays for the food, shots,
Report Post »cleans the poop, etc. it doesn’t sound like she would be a real pooper scooper to me……
This is absurd…. what prison does this?? It not like any prison on TV.
Darla_K
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:55amUnreal. This lady needs some mental help it sounds like. She needs to be let go and stand on her own 2 feet. I am sick and tired of paying for inmates as it is and she wants to stay at our expense? Maybe she could get a job working at the prison cleaning in return for her essential needs.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 11:36amSo you pay for Italian prisons? Get an accountant, you are being screwed.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:49amPet Ferret? I think it’s really a sewer rat!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:12am@ares338–Thanks! assuming she can read, now she knows it’s a Rat.Now those guards will have Hell to pay. Also if a Rat is in prison which of them has only two legs?
Report Post »drago
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:37amHeh, just goes to show, the very wealthy and the poor, do not want to work, and want a free ride……
Report Post »Kara_ite
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:41amDRAGO, what this really shows is that criminals are sent to jail for a reason. They have criminal minds. A criminal mind says, ” I do not want to work, support me!”
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:57amNo…It shows how cooshey a prison is now. Television, weight training, free meals and housing that is not as bad as people think. Myself, I would not want to ever be there, but to many this is easy peezy lemon squeezy. All I can say to the prisoners…be glad i am not your warden but only the guy who is forced to pay for your free meals and rent.
Wonder what they will do when society collapses and they dont have a place to stay or people to feed them?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:29am.
Report Post »They should at least make her the conjugal visit girl, to pay for her stay……
BrerRabbit
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:23amSomething is sooooo wrong when prison is a place you woudl want to be.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 8:30amI wonder if she has a girlfriend (or two) there. Maybe that’s why she had hubby killed in the first place.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:12amMake her pay room and board.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:15amthat was my first thought, but she could have someone do that for her. Make her get a job.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:05amSounds like the Occupy protesters.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 1:18pmOccupy Jail Cell.
Report Post »Where is PETA for the ferret when you need them?
loriann12
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:05amMaybe they should take away her plants and pet ferret and let her know what prison life is REALLY like. Sounds pampered even in prison. She probably has too high of a net worth to qualify for government aid…She better be glad she’s not in Bermuda…they have a prison there that feeds you bread and water (if you want more, you have relatives bring it in) and you sleep on a thin mattress on a stone slab. No exercise room, no plants, etc. We need more places like that here.
Report Post »Airb0rne4325
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:17amAgreed, this should point out the problems with our prison system. If a person would prefer to stay in prison instead of getting out then that’s a problem. Life is better and easier IN prison than out on the streets. Give her 5 years of hard labor, take away the dang ferret and the plants and then re-visit the question and see how she feels.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 20, 2011 at 7:51amAIRB0RNE4325, got to agree with you there. The only problem is we are talking about the Italian justice system. But, for somebody like this it would be great to see her spend the remainder of her sentence working in the prison laundry or doing something appropriate to pull her own weight. I wouldn’t want her to do anything in food service though.
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