'Black Widow' Patrizia Reggiani Speaks Out

The Guardian recently sat down for an interview with Reggiani, who now works for Bozart, a Milanese costume jewelry firm, as a design consultant.

As a condition of her parole, Reggiani was required to find a job. Born into a very wealthy family, she initially found the very idea of working repulsive.

"I’ve never worked in my life and I don’t intend to start now," the Black Widow apparently told one of her lawyers.

But in April 2014, she changed her mind, and began working for Bozart.

Speaking with The Guradian, Reggiani described herself as a "very strong person because I survived all these years in captivity."

"I slept a lot. I took care of my plants. I looked after Bambi, my pet ferret," Reggiani continued, noting that the ferret was a special privilege she enjoyed in prison thanks to her lawyers.

"I don’t like to talk about this time at all. It is all a bad dream to me," she said.

Per the publication, Reggiani dislikes talking about her time in prison, and refers to her incarceration as "my stay at Vittore Residence."

Reggiani met Maurizio Gucci at a party. They married several years later, in 1972, when they were both 24 years old.

"I didn’t think much of him at first. He was just the quiet boy whose teeth crossed over at the front," Reggiani began.

"Maurizio felt free with me. We had fun, we were a team," she continued, "we were a beautiful couple and we had a beautiful life, of course."

Until the early 1990s, the couple enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle, spending millions on lavish parties, yachts, and private islands. But everything changed in 1993, when Maurizio's father Rodolfo died.

When Rodolfo died, Maurizio inherited his stake in Gucci. For years, he fought with his cousins and uncle, who owned the remaining 50 percent of the company.

The turmoil led to Reggiani and Maurizio's marriage imploding. Maurizio soon left his wife, and moved in with Paola Franchi.

Angry and frustrated, Reggiani arranged the murder of her husband with the help of four paid accomplices, including her friend Pina Auriemma.

Reggiani would have gotten away with the murder, had one of the accomplices not bragged to the wrong person. That person notified the police, which soon zeroed in on Reggiani and arrested her.