And yet she had no idea who he was, and since they were both married, she did not ask questions. He would arrive in Porto Cervo b y helicopter, sometimes with his wife, a petite, dark-haired Italian who looked like Joan Collins, though she never came aboard the little motorboat.
But until this year, I never had the opportunity to interview Sheree. Her perspective was a missing piece. This was unfortunate, as she held unique knowledge of the family’s turmoil, and Maurizio’s motivations. Maurizio tracked down Sheree in Florida where she and her husband had opened an operation for the sailmaker North Sails, and called her every day. He started telling her about the heavy legacy his father had handed down to him. He had become the brand’s single largest shareholder, but it did not give him the power to control the company.
Maurizio was transforming from the shy, awkward young man who had grown up in his father’s shadow into the CEO of the family company. Even though he could be charming and playful, he was fiercely determined to be the architect of a new era for the brand. Sheree got a divorce a year later, and Maurizio rented her a little apartment in New York. He flew back and forth often. They rarely used his grand penthouse at Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan, a gift from his father, where he had lived with Patrizia in the 1970s. They felt the staff there would feed information back to Signora Gucci.Patrizia had come from humble origins, which caused Rodolfo Gucci to oppose their wedding in 1972.
We hugged and went our separate ways for the next 20 years. When news of the movie adaptation splashed across the internet in 2020, Sheree got in touch. She recalled her relationship with Maurizio — which lasted from 1984 to 1990 — as a real-life Cinderella story. They each wanted to help the other “fly”, she says.
She would meet him in European port cities — Bremen, Monte Carlo, Palma de Mallorca — to help restore his prized historic sailing yacht, the Creole. It was a project she says took five years, and $25m. “I just got tired of the flying back and forth and the waiting and being all alone,” she says. “I really just wanted to have a normal life.”
He reeled off sales projections and said the company would break even that year, despite a 20% plunge in revenue. In the ensuing weeks, sources told me stories about how badly Maurizio’s turnaround of Gucci was failing, and I wrote articles that exposed the brand’s dire situation. He was always charming during our follow-up interviews, even as he disputed my reporting.
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