The Lady Gaga-starring “House of Gucci” recounts what led up to the fatal hit that killed Maurizio Gucci.

ROME—In many ways, the real story of Patrizia Reggiani, played by Lady Gaga in House of Gucci, begins where the film ends.

“She was Lady Gucci in prison, too,” she said.

In 2011, she was offered work release parole but declined, telling the parole board, “I’ve never worked a day in my life; I’m certainly not going to start now.” Years earlier, when her husband Maurizio Gucci was still alive, she told reporters, “It’s better to cry in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.”.

During her search for a job, she called Gucci headquarters to see if she could work as a consultant.

Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci.

Pina Auriemma, the sorceress who was convicted of arranging the hit on Gucci for Reggiani, was released from prison in 2010 and calls herself the “former friend” of Lady Gucci.

In an interview after her release, she called Reggiani dangerous?

“Unfortunately they are making a film, my dream was to be forgotten,” she said in a TV interview when House of Gucci was being filmed