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For his upcoming movie, The House of Gucci, director Ridley Scott secured some of the best known names in Hollywood—Lady Gaga,
Adam Driver, Jared Leto, and Al Pacino—to play members of the notorious fashion family. But some descendants of the $15 billion
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“My grandfather was a very handsome man, like all the Guccis, and very tall, blue eyes and very elegant,” she said. “He is being played
by Al Pacino, who is not very tall already, and this photo shows him as fat, short, with sideburns, really ugly. Shameful, because he
doesn’t resemble him at all.”

Leto, who plays Aldo’s son Paolo, also failed to meet their standards. Patrizia told the AP that she was alarmed by Leto’s “unkempt hair
and a lilac corduroy suit” in photos from the set. “Horrible, horrible,” she said. “I still feel offended.” (Patrizia Gucci did not respond to
The Daily Beast’s request for comment).

The production, adapted from Sara Gay Forden’s book of the same name, follows the 1995 killing of the fashion house founder’s
grandson, Maurizio Gucci, played by Driver. In the subsequent trial, the designer’s ex-wife, “Black Widow” Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli,
played by Lady Gaga, was sentenced to 29 years in prison for ordering the hit.

Patrizia isn’t the only family member to make her displeasure public. Reggiani, who was released from prison after 16 years, told the
Italian outlet ANSA in January that she was “rather annoyed” that Lady Gaga was playing her, “without having had the consideration
and sensibility to come and meet” her.

“It is not an economic question,” she said. “I won’t get a cent from the film. It is a question of good sense and respect.”

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In the 2000s, not long after the book was first published, Scott’s wife and collaborator, Giannina Facio, met with members of the Gucci
family for a different project.

According to the AP, that project would have centered on Patrizia Gucci’s father and grandfather, rather than the sensational murder,
but that didn’t pan out. For the film under way, the producers are collaborating with Gucci brand, which the family has not owned since
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‘It’s Devastating’: Chicago Residents Reeling After Footage Shows 13-Yr-Old Had His Hands Up as Cop
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“There was no need to shoot a 13-year-old. He was just a little kid. He still had a life to live.”

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CHICAGO—Residents of the West Side neighborhood where 13-year-old Adam Toledo was fatally shot last month were visibly shaken
on Thursday after police released a huge trove of videos, including body-camera footage, showing an officer fatally shooting the boy with
his hands in the air.

“It felt like someone ripped my childhood from my heart. And that is what they did to Adam, they took away his childhood,” said
Kristian Armendariz, 23, a painter and lifelong Little Village resident.

“I have no words to describe how I feel.”

Armendariz had joined with other activists gathered at 26th St. and Central Park Ave late Thursday to hold up banners demanding
justice for Toledo.

“There was no need to shoot a 13 year-old,” said Monica Sanchez, 21. “He was just a little kid. He still had a life to live. It’s devastating to
see how the cops here treat Hispanic people.”

She said she had to fight back tears after watching the gut-wrenching video of Toledo’s death.

“We should do better with our children, not just the individual parents, but as an entire community.”

Protesters took to the streets on Thursday night to keep the pressure on over Toledo’s death. Several dozen demonstrators marched
from Union Park to a Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7, where they were met by a line of police officers on bikes.

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Toledo was shot dead on March 29 in what police described at the time as an “armed confrontation.” Videos released Thursday
afternoon by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) include 17 body-cam videos, four third-party videos, and a
slowed-down version of the events. Two 911 calls, the case incident report, and the tactical response reports were also released.

One video, taken from the body-cam of the officer who shot Toledo— identified in the incident report as Officer Eric Stillman—shows
the teen with both hands up at the moment he is shot once in the chest.
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“Police! Stop! Police, stop right fucking now,” Stillman is heard saying as he chases Toledo down an alley. Toledo then stops, turns
around, and puts both hands up as the cop yells, “Show me your fucking hands, drop it.”
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About two minutes later, the body-camera footage shows another officer shining a flashlight on a gun located a few feet ahead of Toledo.
It’s not clear if the gun is Toledo’s, or if he was holding it at any time during the chase or shooting.

Tensions have already been at a boiling point across the country following the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a
Minneapolis suburb.
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city’s gun problem.

“We failed Adam,” she said. “We cannot afford to fail one more young person in our city.”

Authorities say a chaotic chain of events led to the March 29 shooting on the city’s West Side. Several gunshots were detected at around
2:30 a.m and when officers arrived Toledo was there with 21-year-old Ruben Roman. Both of them took off running, police say.

Roman was tackled and arrested, while Toledo kept running and was pursued down the alley by Officer Stillman. (Roman was later
charged with child endangerment, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and reckless discharge of a firearm for his role in that night’s
fateful events.)

In their initial statement, Chicago Police said an armed person ran from the scene, prompting officers to start a foot pursuit that ended
with an “armed confrontation.” The statement said a gun was recovered from the scene.

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During a hearing for Roman over the weekend, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said the footage showed that
Toledo did stop but refused to show his hands and turned towards the officer with a gun. He said the gun landed a few feet away after
Toledo was shot in the chest.

On Thursday, however, a spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the prosecutor’s account was inaccurate, and the prosecutor was not
“fully informed.”

“An attorney who works in this office failed to fully inform himself before speaking in court,” the spokesperson said. “Errors like that
cannot happen and this has been addressed with the individual involved. The video speaks for itself.”

The body-camera footage also shows Toledo with both hands raised as he’s shot. Stillman approaches Toledo afterwards to ask if he is
all right before repeating, “Stay with me. Stay with me.” A slew of officers arrive on the scene and perform CPR until an ambulance
arrives.

“Adam, during his last second of life, did not have a gun in his hand. The officer screamed at him, ‘Show me your hands.’ Adam
complied, turned around, his hands were empty when he was shot in the chest at the hands of the officer. He did not have a gun in his
hand,” Adeena Weiss Ortiz, an attorney representing the Toledo family, said during a Thursday news conference after the video was
released.

She said she didn’t know if Toledo had a gun at some point during the incident but, even if he did, “it is not relevant, because he tossed
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“There is irrefutable evidence that the shell casings recovered from [the corner where Toledo and Roman were standing] match the
handgun that was in the hands of the juvenile when he was tragically shot by the officer,” he said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

He said the officer “was faced with a life threatening and deadly force situation” and was “left with no other option” but to use his
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The shooting has shaken the community and sparked a spate of protests, but the Toledo family has called for calm. “Adam’s memory can
best be honored by refraining from violence and working constructively for reform,” attorneys for the family said Tuesday.

After watching the body-cam footage late Tuesday, the family vowed to “seek justice” by carrying out their own independent
investigation.

Lightfoot said Thursday that the videos of the incident make two things clear: that in the middle of the night Toledo was “in contact with
an adult who had a gun” and that “too many young people in our city... have been left vulnerable by system failures that we simply must
fix.”

She also blamed the city’s systemic issues of generational poverty, disinvestment, and racism as having a role in the boy’s death.

Cook County prosecutors have so far sought to place blame for the seventh-grader’s death on Roman.

“If the defendant does not bring the 13-year-old with him, if he doesn’t bring his gun with him while on gun offender probation, if he
doesn’t shoot that gun seven to eight times on a city street with (Toledo) standing in arm’s length of him while he’s firing those shots …
none of it would have happened,” Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy argued in court.

Roman was initially released from custody on a misdemeanor charge but was taken back in after ditching a court hearing in a separate
case. He reportedly told police he didn’t know who Toledo was and claimed he’d been waiting in the alley for a train.

It’s not clear how Roman and Toledo knew each other. Toledo’s mother, Elizabeth, told The Chicago Sun-Times she “just wants answers
about what really happened.”

“He wanted to be a cop when he grew up. And next thing you know, a cop took his life,” she said.

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