Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Cunanan was a very successful male sex worker in the Los Angeles area. He had everything paid for in his life by his sugar daddies, including his rent, car, and vacations. He had a genius-level IQ and a photographic memory. He was the youngest child in his family, and he was their pride and joy. His parents paid for him to go to an expensive boarding school, because they believed he was destined for great things. This helped him become comfortable around the upper-class, made him clever enough to lie to nearly everyone about every aspect of his life. He pretended to be extremely wealthy, and even told some people that he was descended from royalty in the Philippines.
This made him an attractive partner to rich gay men, who gave him even more money and free things to keep up with his lavish lifestyle. It turns out that he wasn’t just a liar. He was a narcissist and a sociopath who would do anything to anyone in order to get what he wanted. He had one sugar daddy who paid for him to go on lavish vacations, and over $2,500 a month for an allowance. After spending all of his early 20’s doing drugs and drinking, his looks were beginning to go downhill, and his relationship with his benefactor ended.
Fewer and fewer men wanted to hire Cunanan, and this made him enraged that he could no longer live a lavish life as a gigolo. At 27 years old, he started to travel across the country and murdered men wherever he went. His first two victims were young gay men in their late 20’s to early 30’s, and his third and fourth were both older married men who had solicited his sexual services. Andrew Cunanan first met Gianni Versace at a gay bar in San Francisco. He was drunk, and thought he recognized Cunanan from a party he had been to before. So, like the liar he was, he played a long and indulged in this idea that they knew each other. It’s likely that Cunanan thought that he could use his charm to convince Gianni Versace to become his new sugar daddy.
After killing at least four men, he ended up in Miami, Florida, where he stalked out Gianni Versace. A few of Andrew Cunanan’s friends told the FBI that he was bragging about having a close friendship with Gianni Versace. Considering that he lied about so many other things in his life, it could have been a lie, too. Or, maybe they were having a secret affair. However, there is no concrete evidence that Versace ever became friends with him, or hired him to be his gigolo or lover, and all of his family denies ever knowing him.
Versace lived in a gorgeous Italian-style villa called Casa Casadina with his long-term partner, Antonio D’Amico. While we will never know the true story, one of the theories is that Versace rejected his advances, which hurt Andrew’s pride so badly, he shot him. After killing Versace, he turned the gun on himself and committed suicide in his hotel room.