Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. So what is the truth behind the artistic license? "We were discussing Marilyn's fundraising at the Drake, which was very successful, and that they were planning to go to Israel and name a wing in her honor, and he was looking forward to that.". He was "a man I could have been," as Cunanan remarked to his friend Ronnie in Episode 2. Cunanan was a serial killer, suspected in four other deaths. Mike Farrell as Lee Miglin (left) and Judith Light as Marilyn Miglin (right) in. The FBI believed Cunanan may have been seeking revenge on former lovers or clients who may have given him HIV, records show. The pair engage in an intimate conversation onstage after the show. An initial theory told to Morrell by sources was that Miglin had parked his Lexus in a garage and walked across the alleyway, and was in the process of opening his back gate when someone stuck what Miglin believed to be a loaded gun in his back and ordered him into his other garage. Miglin was stabbed more than 20 times with a screwdriver on May 3. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Either [Cunanan] knew of the guy or knew his son. Trail wasa graduate of the U.S. She also continues to give back to her community by raising more than $1 million to the preservation of Oak Street in Chicago and by founding the Women of Destiny program. The show sticks closely to this gruesome version of events. Miglin, 72, invites him into his Gold Coast home while his wife is away on a business trip. The episode opens with Miglins wife, Marilyn (the always excellent Judith Light), promoting her fragrance Pheromone on the Home Shopping Network. Ultimately, police ruled Miglin's murder a crime of opportunity, according to the Chicago Tribune. Some reportsincluding one in the New York Timesclaimed that Cunanan had told friends he was HIV-positive, and that he was murdering former lovers out of a desire for vengeance on whoever had infected him. Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles. Police also later found a duffel bag in Madson's apartment with Cunanan's name and a La Jolla, California address on it. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Authorities believe Cunanan targeted Reese so that he could steal his truck. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. "I'd say it's highly probable that he knew Miglin," said McCrary. "There was no relationship whatsoever," Duke said. [RELATED: 'American Crime Story' revisits the Chicago murder of Lee Miglin], [A look at the Chicago TV and film projects set to premiere in 2018], [Taraji P. Henson producing, starring in film about Emmett Till], Darren Criss, left, plays con artist Andrew Cunanan and Mike Farrell plays Chicago real estate tycoon Lee Miglin on "American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace., Lee Miglin told Crains Chicago Business in 1994, have long denied Lee Miglin and Cunanan knew each other, RELATED: 'American Crime Story' revisits the Chicago murder of Lee Miglin, A look at the Chicago TV and film projects set to premiere in 2018, Taraji P. Henson producing, starring in film about Emmett Till, Photos: Chicago cop shot, left very critical on Southwest Side, Colson Montgomery, the Chicago White Soxs top prospect, is taking it all in during major-league camp, Chicago mayor runoff begins with mutual attacks: Brandon Johnson would destroy economy; Paul Vallas failed everywhere he has gone, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. "He asked me if I would be willing to talk to my sister about helping him settle his divorce proceedings. CBS 2's Brad Edwards went back to our archive to watch a Betamax tape of our 10 p.m. news from May 4, 1997 "News 2 Chicago," as our news was known at the time anchored by Lester Holt and Linda MacLennan. Cunanan, realizing he has to ditch the Lexus, spots a red pickup truck and trails the driver, William Reese, to the Finns Point National Cemetery, a Civil War memorial where he is the caretaker. Miglin's daughter, Marlena Miglin, is now going through a bitter divorce from Tim Egan, 2nd Ward Democratic . Shortly after Trail, 28, had moved to Minnesota for a new job, his body was found in a Minneapolis loft apartment belonging to his friend, David Madsonan ex-lover of Cunanans. He was accepted to both. In reality, there isn't much out there about the possible Cunanan-Miglin relationship. He had been bound with duct tape, stabbed more than 20 times with a. Scenes for American Crime Story were filmed in September outside 2104 N. Fremont St., in Lincoln Park. After he murders Miglin, he takes the businessmans dark green Lexus to continue his killing spree. But you know, who knows?" Time Life PicturesThe LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images, Diners at the Edgewater Hotel on Miami Beach sit under a large wanted poster of Andrew Cunanan in July 1997. But where the television series begins to diverge from some reports is in what relationship Cunanan had to the Miglin family, if any. He ultimately killed himself a week after Versace's death, as Miami police closed in on him. The drama introduces a note of ritual humiliation, with Cunanan telling Miglin that when his body is found he will be wearing ladies underwear and surrounded by gay porn magazines. Versace had a longtime boyfriend, Antonio DAmico. When he didn't show up, she became suspicious about her husband's whereabouts, according to the Chicago Tribune. Tuesday night, however, an officer started writing a third parking ticket for the vehicle and decided to call in the license plate. Another murder, the violent shooting of Lee Miglin, a self-made real-estate magnate, was making national headlines two months before Andrew Cunanan killed Gianni Versace. He was an early developer of business parks.His firm, at one point, proposed the construction of the Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle, which was planned to be the tallest building in . Schlesinger said there was some speculation that Versace and Cunanan had met briefly at an opera performance in San Francisco but it would have been in passing. Another theory suggested that Cunanan might have met the victims son, Duke Miglin, who was for a while an aspiring actor in Hollywood (and did indeed appear in the movie Air Force One). Madsons body is found on the shore of Rush Lake in Minnesota. Miglin family members have long denied Lee Miglin and Cunanan knew each other before the attack. While American Crime Story season two is based on the real-life murder spree Andrew Cunanan committed in the Spring and Summer of 1997, there are a number of events the producers had to create by imagining what would have transpired because there are no people still alive who can give firsthand accounts of what happened. A Complete Timeline of Andrew Cunanan's Murders, had a big fallout with Andrew and never wished to see him again., Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in US History, was found in a Minneapolis loft apartment, found dead in the cemeterys office on May 10, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Wednesday's new episode of "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" didn't feature the famed designer at all, instead focusing . Emma Dibdin is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles who writes about culture, mental health, and true crime. The killer was Andrew Cunanan a spree killer who murdered a total of five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, before he took his own life. 2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Finally, as in the show, Cunanan really did make off in Miglins beautiful Lexus sports car. Detectives had said Cunanan murdered Miglin in a crime of opportunity because he needed Miglin's car. The website also states she is a recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg International Humanitarian Award, and it is at this ceremony that the episode shows her paying tribute to her supportive husband of 38 years, Lee, saluting him as the embodiment of the American dream, the son of an Illinois coal miner who started as a salesman and rose to become a leader in his field, developing prestigious projects such as the Chicago Bar Association building and Madison Plaza. The police deemed the murder a crime of opportunity, according to the Chicago Tribune. So far, they have refused. Former U.S. naval officer Jeffrey Trail had become friends with Cunanan in San Diego in 1991, while Trail was stationed there. CBS 2's Mike Parker reported Chicago Police had been aching to talk with Cunanan about the murder of Miglin. There is no indisputable evidence to suggest Lee Miglin was involved with men or knew Cunanan specifically. On May 3, Cunanan drove to Chicago, Illinois, and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer. The Miglin family has always denied that there was any connection between them and Cunanan, with Lee's son Duke recently reiterating that stance to ABC 7 Eyewitness News. But some bizarre details about the crime scene began to emerge. The first episode shows Versace and Cunanan meeting in the VIP area of a nightclub, where an initially irritated Versace is eventually won over by Cunanans story about his mothers upbringing in Italy. The episode's version of events depicts that Lee Miglin knew Andrew Cunanan before Cunanan allegedly killed him. In an emailed statement to The Chicago Sun-Times, American Crime Story executive producer Brad Simpson said: Bustle reached out to FX and the network declined to give additional comment. Versaces murder prompted a much more vigorous pursuit of Cunanan, with some 1,000 agents across the country taking part in what became one of the biggest manhunts in history. But on American Crime Story, Lee Miglin is shown talking with Cunanan on the phone before the 27-year-old makes that fateful trip to Chicago. There have likewise been questions about whether Versace knew Cunanan. He currently lives in a townhouse that was gifted to his estranged wife, Marlena Miglin, by her mother Marilyn Miglin, who owns of a well-known beauty product company. Andrew Cunanan and David Madson met in November 1995. In addition to running her business, Marilyn is a recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg International Humanitarian Award. The Assassination of Gianni Versace writer Tom Rob Smith and producer Ryan Murphy based the series on a book by veteran Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth, who reported extensively on the case before writing Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in US History. But while the pair did meet in San Francisco, according to Orth, it played out quite differently than the series depicts: To confuse things further, the above version of events is the one we see Cunanan describe to friends in the series, but not the one we actually see play out onscreen. The American Crime Story episode scheduled to air next week will follow Cunanan as he kills two men in Minnesota before killing Miglin. Cunanans ride: Cunanan is shown parking a red Jeep with Minnesota plates near the Miglin home before the attack. 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Ive never seen any credible evidence to show that there was a relationship, Robert Milan, a former assistant states attorney for Cook County, told ABC News. Miglin's daughter, Marlena Miglin, is now going through a bitter divorce from Tim Egan, 2nd Ward Democratic committeeman. It premieres Wednesday. As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reported from Miami, police quickly dismissed the idea that Versace's murder was a random act. Indeed, according to the 1997 Chicago Tribune report of the murder, "There was no forced entry to the home, suggesting that Miglin knew his assailant or was accosted outside and forced into the home.". Once they decide to base something on my book, they have artistic license to do certain things.. The Sky Needle is grounded in fact (the project. Kate Middleton Makes the Case for Houndstooth, Prince William & Kate Middleton Visit Wales, Courteney Cox Hasn't Read Prince Harry's Memoir, Historic Photos of King George VI's Coronation. After a five-hour standoff, a SWAT team moved in and there were reports that police had pulled the body of a man who might have been Cunanan. Now Egan wants access to the garage and is trying to evict his in-laws from the property. Miami Beach Chief of Police Richard Barreto said later that night that a caretaker had heard gunshots in the houseboat and had called police. Cunanan wanted to disgrace Miglin. Miglin proudly shows Cunanan the plans for his dream project, the Sky Needle, that at 125 stories was to be the tallest building in the world. "The problem in this case is the only person who knows or the only people who know are dead," Schlesinger said. [27] While those are the facts of the gruesome murder, what isn't known is why Cunanan targeted Miglin specifically, if in fact he did. Investigators still dont know why Andrew Cunanan killed Gianni Versace. Egan is trying to evict his mother-in-law from the garage. He heads to Miami Beach and fatally shoots Versace before killing himself eight days later. But the murder of Miglin, and Cunanan's whereabouts, remained a mystery until Tuesday, July 15, 1997 when fashion icon Gianni Versace was shot on the steps of his oceanfront villa,Casa Casuarina, in Miami's South Beach neighborhood. As played by the ever-genial Mike Farrell, Miglin is portrayed as the opposite of a bumptious, hard-charging Trumpian developer, happy to cede the spotlight to his more vivacious wife.This self-effacement is apparently entirely in character. Cunanan had reportedly been living in Miami Beach for two months prior to killing Versace. Cunanan's fourth victim, William Reese, was also reported as a crime of opportunity: Cunanan needed his truck, so he shot Reese in the head and stole it. And if we didn't know, we really tried to allow for interpretation. Brad Edwards is an investigative reporter and main anchor at CBS2 Chicago. "American Crime Story" executive producer Brad Simpson told the Chicago Sun-Times that he and his team came to the conclusion that Miglin and Cunanan knew each other because all of Cunanan's attacks were "targeted and specific" except for the one on William Reese. He began his career as a salesman for Arthur Rubloff & Co. in Chicago, as noted by the Washington Post. Cunanan had tucked Miglin's body under a car in the garage and attempted to obscure it with trash cans, according to the Chicago Tribune. "A Random Killing" moves through the events preceding the crime and its aftermath, but does not truly answer the most pressing question: why did Andrew Cunanan kill Lee Miglin? And I still dont.. But the mystery of why he went on a killing spree remained baffling. In The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Cunanan is played by Glee star Darren Criss. Here's what we know about Miglin and his family. But the high-profile killing of Versace forced Cunanan to keep a lower profile for the final week of his life. The SUV had Minnesota license plates that had been registered to Minneapolis interior designer David Madson, 33, whose body had been found near a lake in Chisago County, Minnesota the day before Miglin's body was found. Cunanan and Versace did not know each other, according to People, although they may have briefly met prior to the killing. What American Crime Story Makes Up About Lee Miglin's Horrific Murder, American Crime Story The Assassination Of Gianni Versace. 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Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 - July 23, 1997) was an American serial killer known to have murdered five people, including Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin, during a three-month period in mid-1997. On July 10, Versace arrived in Miami to stay at his opulent mansion in the South Beach area. Rodriguez, played by True Detective alum Alex Fernandez, gets a fair amount of screen time on the episode. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital Chicago was the setting for most of Wednesdays episode of "American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace. The FX series follows Andrew Cunanan (played by Darren Criss) as he fatally stabs Chicago real estate tycoon Lee Miglin (MASH alum Mike Farrell) in May 1997 as part of a killing spree that also claimed Versace, a noted fashion designer. "I made an effort to be all right, so everyone else could be all right," she told the Chicago Tribune. But on "American Crime Story," Lee Miglin is shown talking with Cunanan on the phone. Another connection that Orth investigated was one between Cunanan and Lee and Marilyn's son Duke. Police had gone to Madson's apartment after he hadn't shown up for work, and found Trail's body there, CBS News reported. Robert Milan, who worked for the State's Attorney's office at the time, told ABC-7 that he believes Miglin was a crime of opportunity for Cunanan. From there, Cunanan drove off in Reese's truck. Simpson told the newspaper that producers for the true crime series studied Maureen Orth's book, "Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History" and also bringing her on as a consultant. "It was built by my father. Then in May, Cunanan repeatedly stabbed Lee Miglin, a 72-year-old Chicago real estate developer and wealthy businessman, according to authorities. "I lived the life of a fairy princess and I had a prince for 38 years, and then one day my prince went to war and didn't come back," she said. Investigators remove Cunanans body from the Miami Beach houseboat on which he died. Marilyn Miglin died just this past March at the age of 83, and maintained to her death that her husband and Cunanan never knew each other. He and his wife Marilyn lived in the Chicago area. The suicide ended the high-profile manhunt that followed the global news coverage of Versaces murder. "What do you say about a man you loved passionately for 38 years a man who exemplified courage, and honor, and dignity, and a code of ethics beyond any that I think anybody's ever had?" Despite Miglin's wife and their son Duke vehemently denying any previous connection between Cunanan and Miglin, reports from several people indicate Miglin and Cunanan may have been involved on a romantic or even sexual level, according to ABC7Chicago. None of this information really explains why Cunanan did what he did. And I still don't.". But that doesn't seem to account for the grotesque violence of Miglin's death. But that's just one theory. There Cunanan shoots Reese point blank and steals the truck. So I understand it is their choice. As The Assassination Of Gianni Versace (editor: Emily Greene) accurately shows, Miglin and his wife Marilyn were prominent figures in the city. Matt Rodriguez arrives at the Miglin home to oversee the crime scene. Miglin was also known for philanthropic activities, including fundraising for the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Museum of Science and Industry. "A lot of false things were brought up and they were very hurtful, very painful, for me personally and there were attacks on me as well that I really didn't appreciate. Trail had reportedly told friends that he had had a big fallout with Andrew and never wished to see him again.. Dirty dishes in the kitchen and beard stubble in the bathroom sink were Marilyn's next clues that something was amiss. Madson was so driven, he applied to law school and architecture school. I have wanted to share this with you for a long time, but never had the chance, Lee Miglin is shown saying to Cunanan as he divulges his plans for the Skyneedle, which at 1,952 feet and 125 stories would be the tallest building in the world. I promise you, this will happen, Miglin tells Cunanan. Miglin was killed in the garage on May 3, 1997 by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The show suggests that Miglin arranged an assignation with Cunanan, an escort whose services he had used before, while his dynamic wife was out of town on business, though there is no hard proof of this and, as in the series, the family denied that the two knew each other. 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