article_snippet: Gianni Versace ordered a radical makeover of a Mayfair mansion he planned to buy, but never got to complete the sale because he was murdered before he could move in.
article_snippet: But the designer never got to live in the palatial home because the designer was shot dead outside the designer Miami beach mansion in 1997 by Andrew Cunanan, a serial killer the designer had met in San Francisco whilst designing costumes for the opera.
article_snippet: The purchase of The house (blue door) was never completed.
article_snippet: Versace was killed in 1997 and never got to live in the house, where oversized glass doors lead to a 34ft garden at the back (right) '
article_snippet: Versace, who died at the age of 50, owned property in Miami, Manhattan and Milan.
article_snippet: Last year the Ocean Drive mansion where he was shot dead was reopened as a luxury boutique hotel.
article_snippet: the Ocean Drive mansion where he was shot dead boasts a number of elements that may have been seen in the London home
article_snippet: Cunanan, a 27-year-old ‘high-class’ gay prostitute, was said to be responsible for Versace's murder. 
article_snippet: After an international manhunt he was was found to have committed suicide in the upstairs bedroom of the Miami houseboat where he had been hiding out.
highlights_snippet: But Gianni Versace was shot dead in 1997 outside Gianni Versace Miami mansion and never got to live in property or complete the sale .
  