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Shot dead
Versace was shot dead on July 15, 1997, aged 50, on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion as he returned from a morning walk on Ocean Drive. It was his custom to take a stroll to a coffee shop that received international periodicals, to read the Italian-language newspapers. He was murdered by Andrew Cunanan, who used the same gun to commit suicide on a boat several days later. Police have said they do not know why Versace was killed. "I don't know that we are ever going to know the answers," said Miami Beach Police Chief Richard Barreto.[2] Versace's body was cremated and his ashes returned to the family's estate near Cernobbio, Italy.
In September 1997, it was announced Versace's brother, Santo, and Jorge Saud would serve as the new CEOs of Gianni Versace S.P.A. Versace's sister, Donatella, became the new head of design.
In his will, Gianni Versace left 50 percent of his fashion empire to his niece Allegra Versace. Her younger brother, Daniel, inherited Versace's rare artwork collection. Allegra inherited her stake, worth around half a billion dollars, when she turned 18 in 2004.
My Tsunami painting, he txt me.
Black Cat
A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze
will be absorbed and utterly disappear:
just as a raving madman, when nothing else
can ease him, charges into his dark night
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels
the rage being taken in and pacified.
She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen
into her, so that, like an audience,
she can look them over, menacing and sullen,
and curl to sleep with them. But all at once
as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.
Autumn Day
Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.
Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now will not build one
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing.
Autumn
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."
And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars in the loneliness.
We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It's in them all.
And yet there is Someone, whose hands
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
Child in Red
Sometimes she walks through the village in her
little red dress
all absorbed in restraining herself,
and yet, despite herself, she seems to move
according to the rhythm of her life to come.
She runs a bit, hesitates, stops,
half-turns around...
and, all while dreaming, shakes her head
for or against.
Then she dances a few steps
that she invents and forgets,
no doubt finding out that life
moves on too fast.
It's not so much that she steps out
of the small body enclosing her,
but that all she carries in herself
frolics and ferments.
It's this dress that she'll remember
later in a sweet surrender;
when her whole life is full of risks,
the little red dress will always seem right.
Superstars
Poker Face at the first Hong Kong BTW Ball
Those hills are a killer, he txt me. You go to the top, I ask him? Yeah, I was thinking, he said, I don't know how your legs cope, mine are probably stronger but even in my lowest gear into a head wind the pain is almost too much. Just thinking of getting to the top. Hope it is worth it. Why do you think it was so hard, I asked? Maybe God was trying to slow me down, he say. A change of scenery. New route, still expanding it. Bought my last packet of cigarettes. You sure about that, I asked? Thought you were givin up at New Year. Yes, I have no money, he said. Had to cancel a dentist appointment and optician for new glasses.
I just wanted to put more air in my tyres at the petrol station where you used to work weekends. I never did, I told him. Yes I know, he said, but some high school girl who looked like you probably did.
Cup of tea used by Lady Gaga in 'VMAJ' 2011 will be auctioned:
Last year Gaga visited Japan after the tsunami that occurred on this island, she conducted a performance which the funds were to help the victims of that country. Then we made a press conference where Gaga drank tea in a very peculiar cup in which he said 'WE PRAY FOR JAPAN'.
Now this same cup was put up for auction to raise funds needed for Japanese artists, in order to specialize in different arts abroad.
The auction will begin on May 6 of this at 23 hours, the money will be delivered to the association 'Tomadachi', which gives young people opportunity to study in other countries.
- With Angel Juan Barrios.
Also, as I was riding, that if we fail to rendezvous on top of One Tree Hill at 1.00am on the 11th June, having failed to meet before then, that I'll meet you there at the same time and date in 2018. In six year's time, I asked him, OK? Six whole years, he said. Yes, it will be interesting to find out, whether you are still a multi-millionaire, and how many of those eight children you actually will have produced. I'll say three or four in six years. And you are planning on starting a family too, I asked? No he said, not this lifetime, I have a daughter, Sophie, who was my cousin's daughter for six years but she was killed in a traffic accident.
From what I remember I finally got married in about 600 years from now and did have a family, but that is all in my past. I haven't achieved anythiing that I wanted from this lifetime, apart from being born, and my thesis, which isn't finished yet, so it isn't worth anything.
What's this about an auction for Japan, he asked? It sounds a bit like Sharapove giving money to that charity in Russia. Yes I said, they need support. Charity begins at home he said. God caused that disaster, the Japanese should wake up and start listening to God, and start paying some of their internet debts, or else it will be one disaster after another. Their next disaster is going to be a volcano. I've already given then two of my paintings for free. Your cup is a nice jesture, but you could solve my problem for less than the price of a free concert. What do you mean, I asked him. You belive God and Jesus are real don't you? Yes I said. Then don't you think Jesus must have known something?
Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love
Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Yes, it will be interesting to find out, whether you are still a multi-millionaire, and how many of those eight children you actually will have produced. I'll say three or four in six years. And you are planning on starting a family too, I asked? No he said, not this lifetime, I have a daughter, Sophie, who was my cousin's daughter for six years but she was killed in a traffic accident. From what I remember i finally got married in abot 600 years from now and did have a family, but that is all in my past. I haven't achieved anythiing that I wanted from this lifetime, apart from being born, and my thesis, which isn't finished yet, so it isn't worth anything.
Wieder und wieder,
Wieder und wieder, aber wir kennen die Landschaft der Liebe
und der kleine Friedhof gibt, mit STI trauernden Namen,
und die erschreckend still Abgrund, in dem die anderen
Herbst: Immer wieder wir beide gehen zusammen
unter den alten Bäumen, leg dich wieder und wieder
unter den Blumen, von Angesicht zu Angesicht mit dem Himmel.
This is Mother G.O.A.T. http://pic.twitter.com/ubK1IWMb
Edge of Glory is playing right now he txt me. What time is it there? 3.03 am on Wednesday 2nd May, he said. Your show is tonight, you should be asleep.
Papparazi baby, he txt me, just before noon. When I woke up this morning the whole house was shaking and a digger was drilling a hole through my water pipe, so no shower and I'm having a bad hair day. Hong Kong show tonight! Why you not been in touch. I'm taking a wee off you won't be able to contact me. So much to do, working away like a busy bee, baby I txt him. Ready to tear the face off this city.
Never be afraid to dream.
4 hrs to go baby, he txt me, good luck, better head over to the stadium soon.
Things that you say to your hair stylist when he's pulling your coiffeur into alien banshee-tails before show: *not suitable for Twitter*
Thomas ⚡ LadyGaga
@TomyKMonster HD VIDEO: Lady Gaga performing "Alejandro" at the #BornThisWayBall in Hong Kong: http://youtu.be/8H_UsnlFSJU
http://ultimategaga.net/?p=1050
We've added more pictures and videos from the #BornThisWayBall in Hong Kong to the site, check them out here: http://ultimategaga.net/?p=1050
You all set for the concert tonight, he txt me. You back from your bike ride, I ask him? Yeah. And donee some thinking again. Yep. I'm going to post the rules to the game of poker on another page, he say, but I note nobody has clicked on any of my pages yet.
Pulled HK bad kids out of monster pit. Met them back stage, they broke out Judas choreography & then side-eyed me & said "were 15." AMAZING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDiOoI0kh9w&feature=youtu.be
HD VIDEO: Lady Gaga performing "Hair" at the #BornThisWayBall in Hong Kong: http://youtu.be/9W90dJJeTfs
HD VIDEO: Lady Gaga performing "Yoü and I" at the #BornThisWayBall in Hong Kong: http://youtu.be/lDiOoI0kh9w
http://www.z100.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104650&article=10096670
Al parecer el noviazgo de Lady Gaga y Taylor Kinney se ha acabado.
Una fuente dijo a Z100 New York: "Ella estará de gira sin parar hasta
el próximo año y se ha encontrado con que no puede tener una relación al
mismo tiempo", y agregó: "Simplemente no hay espacio para nada más. Su
trabajo es que todo lo consume."
Gaga y Kinney llevaban 10 meses de novios.Apparently the courtship of Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney is over.
A source told Z100 New York: "She will be touring non-stop until next
year and has found that it cannot have a relationship at the same time",
and added: "there is simply no space for anything else." "His work is
that everything consumes it."
Gaga and Kinney had 10 months of bride and groom
Una fuente dijo a Z100 New York: "Ella estará de gira sin parar hasta el próximo año y se ha encontrado con que no puede tener una relación al mismo tiempo", y agregó: "Simplemente no hay espacio para nada más. Su trabajo es que todo lo consume."
Gaga y Kinney llevaban 10 meses de novios.
A source told Z100 New York: "She will be touring non-stop until next year and has found that it cannot have a relationship at the same time", and added: "there is simply no space for anything else." "His work is that everything consumes it."
Gaga and Kinney had 10 months of bride and groom