The former wife of murdered fashion king Maurizio Gucci denied last Friday that she had a hand in killing him but said she had been consumed by hatred for him and had no regrets he was dead. Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli, 51, goes on trial May 11 with her clairvoyant friend Pina Auriemma and three men over the contract killing of Gucci, who was shot dead in central Milan in March 1995. The trial promises to be the latest chapter in a compelling saga of bitter feuds and brutal power struggles in the style of the notorious Borgias of medieval Florence.

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