Miglin-Cunanan relationship: This is probably the most contentious part of the story. The episode opens with Miglins wife, Marilyn (the always excellent Judith Light), promoting her fragrance Pheromone on the Home Shopping Network. From there, Cunanan drove off in Reese's truck. Bloody clothing was found nearby. The claims that the younger Miglin and Cunanan knew each other gained circulation, Orth said, after a Chicago bookseller repeated them to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, but the source then called a press conference to say he had been misquoted. That is pure speculation, however, as is the scenario presented in The Assassination of Gianni Versace. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said his clothes were saturated in blood, but the area around him was clean suggesting that his body may have been moved. "Would this guy let some stranger in off the street? As a police assault team closed in on a houseboat which Cunanan had broken into, Cunanan shot himself in the mouth using the same gun he had used to kill Madson, Reese, and Versace. According to Cunanan's friends, Cunanan considered David Madson to be the love of his life, even though their relationship ended in the spring of 1996. Cunanan bound Miglin with duct tape, stabbed him 20 times with a screwdriver, then cut his throat with a hacksaw (Dibdin, 2018). Maureen Orth, in her book Vulgar Favors on which the series is based, supports the first two details but is more vague about the concrete block to the head, reporting only that there were two dozen blows to the head, face, and chin. That Cunanan threw a concrete block on Miglins chest is less in doubt, as it would account for the multiple broken ribs. However, an autopsy showed Cunanan to be HIV-negative. Maureen Orth's Vulgar Favors recounted the horrifying details: Miglin had been bound and gagged with a glove, his head wrapped in tape like a mummy. Who is Lee Miglin, Andrew Cunanan's Third Victim? We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The series also shows Marilyn using her influence with city officials to bury this information. Magazines, Digital Madson, 33, failed to show up for work on Monday, April 28, but neighbors saw him walking his dog with Cunanan that day. William Reese, a 45-year-old caretaker at the Finns Point National Cemetery in Pennsville, New Jersey, was found dead in the cemeterys office on May 10. Miglin was known for being meticulous, which is why his wife Marilyn found it strange that the front gate was unlocked when she returned home from a business trip Sunday morning. Judith Light portrays Chicago socialite Marilyn Miglin in the series. 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.". 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. Earlier the same day, he'd gotten a haircut at Cote d'Or Coiffures, 40 E. Oak St. "He was in a very good mood," said Cote d'Or owner Delores Kimmel. "My reaction, of course, is sad, because there are a lot of matters we want to clear up with respect to our case here in the city of Chicago," said then-police Supt. The show also includes the rather creepy details about how Cunanan made himself at home at the Miglins' after the murder. Speaking to The Chicago Tribune a year after Lee's murder, Marilyn denied these rumors about her husband and Cunanan. There were over two dozen blows causing bruises or lacerations to his head, face, and chin; the blood from these wounds soaked through layer upon layer of three-quarter-inch masking tape that had been wound around his head mummy-style, except for an opening at the nostrils and at the top of his head. Gay pornographic magazines had been left not far away.. We don't know, and we were always trying to get it as close to right as we could, knowing that there was not as much information to draw from, and try to do justice to people who were impacted by it.". And I still don't.". But in published reports, Miglin's family has consistently maintained there was no connection between Miglin and Cunanan. He heads to Miami Beach and fatally shoots Versace before killing himself eight days later. Twenty years after the murder, Cunanans motive is still unclear. One of the most ambiguousand contentiouselements of the series is the relationship between Cunanan and Versace, and whether they even knew each other. At the time of his death, Versace was one of the most high-profile fashion designers in the world, dressing the likes of Princess Diana, Madonna and Elton John. "Lee Miglin built that garage for his . Police also claimed that Miglin's leather jacket and wristwatch were missing, as well as $2,000 from Miglin's briefcase. 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 car belonged to one of the men that Cunanan was suspected of murdering in Minneapolis. Madson was so driven, he applied to law school and architecture school. Miglins family has consistently and vigorously denied that Leeor his 25-year-old son Duke, a rising actor whose name Cunanan had reportedly dropped to friendshad ever met Cunanan. The Medical Examiner found no defensive wounds on Miglin. Cunanan then came to Chicago and brutally murdered Miglin. In the aftermath of the murder, reporters and authorities tried to find a link between Miglin, who appeared to have been happily married for nearly 40 years, and Cunanan. / CBS Chicago. Later, Cunanan goes on a date with Versace to the San Francisco Opera, where the designer is working on Capriccio. Investigators still dont know why Andrew Cunanan killed Gianni Versace. His watch had stopped at 9:55 pm, which investigators believed was the time of his killing on Sunday, April 27. On the morning of Saturday, May 3, Kyle Hilken and Scott Schmidt were out looking for a fishing spot at East Rush Lake when they stumbled upon Madson's body in some nearby brush. Episode 3 of The Assassination of Gianni Versace tests whether well still be interested in the series without its title character, who is largely absent from the action. 2022 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. However, the dominance and submission play quickly took a violent turn. Cunanan became the most wanted and feared man in America, leaving the nation in a simultaneous state of terror and fascination as his grisly crimes played out over a period of more than two months. Miglin's family said the same, releasing the following statement after Cunanan's suicide: "(The car) was taken by a complete stranger in a random act of violence who had no connection whatsoever to any member of the Miglin family.". The skyscraper was to be constructed at 201 W. Madison St. downtown. Despite what the Miglin family says, The Assassination Of Gianni Versace gives a version of events where Miglin did know Cunanan. Miglin, 72, invites him into his Gold Coast home while his wife is away on a business trip. He had been shot in the head, and his red pickup truck was gone, replaced by a green Lexus with Illinois platesthe same one Cunanan stole from Miglins garage. CBS 2's Mike Parker reported Chicago Police had been aching to talk with Cunanan about the murder of Miglin. A knife is stuck in a ham on a desk. The program recruited 200 of Chicagos most successful women and had them serve as mentors for young women across a variety of professions. Episode three focuses on one such incident: Cunanan's brutal murder of Chicago real-estate mogul Lee Miglin in May of that year. He also talked about wanting to reveal Miglin's orientation to the world through the manner of his death, leaving his body surrounded by gay pornography and wearing more traditionally feminine underwear. The murder comes when Cunanan leads Miglin to the garage under the guise that they are going out together somewhere and then Cunanan proceeds to kill Miglin in the garage. The service is attended by some 2,000 people and scores of celebrities, including Princess Diana, Elton John, Naomi Campbell, and fashion power players like Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld. Shortly after Miglins murder, Cunanan became the 449th fugitive listed on the FBIs Most Wanted list. .css-1du65oy{color:#323232;display:block;font-family:NewParis,Georgia,Times,serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0.3125rem;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;-webkit-font-smoothing:auto;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-1du65oy:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.3125rem;line-height:1.2;}}Kate Recreated a Past Outfit for St. David's Day, Royals Confirmed to Attend Charles's Coronation. In fact, it seems likely that Miglins murder was equally random, if more elaborate, with Cunanan deciding he needed a new getaway car and somehow catching sight of the Lexus. "It was built by my father. Police press conference: We consider Andrew Cunanan to be armed and to be extremely dangerous. Madsons family members suspected that he had accidentally walked in on the killing of Trail, and subsequently been taken hostage by Cunanan, and this is the version of events that plays out in American Crime Story. From a Tribune report at the time: As detectives swarmed the neighborhood for clues, no one paid much attention to the Jeep. So far, they have refused. So it's important to remember that this episode is a dramatization of an incomplete set of facts. Miglin did in fact come from this background to develop the Bar Association and Madison Plaza buildings with his partner, J. Paul Beitler, as well as many other significant structures in the Chicago area. Matt Rodriguez. Instead, she took care of Miglin's 98-year-old mother and brother-in-law, who was very close to Lee, the fourth of seven children. Its unclear how much of this were meant to take at face value, and how much is Cunanans delusional, grandiose idea of the relationship he feels he deserves to have with Versace. The initial Chicago Tribune article reported that the 72-year-old Miglin was found dead in his garage. "It's very difficult," Miglin's son Duke told ABC7Chicago. Scenes for American Crime Story were filmed in September outside 2104 N. Fremont St., in Lincoln Park. On July 10, Versace arrived in Miami to stay at his opulent mansion in the South Beach area. Tying Miglin up and wrapping his head, Donoghue said, was strictly practical, to keep him quiet and to keep him from moving around. He and his wife Marilyn lived in the Chicago area. But that doesn't seem to account for the grotesque violence of Miglin's death. There are references made to this not being their first meeting and not their first meeting of a sexual nature. There Cunanan shoots Reese point blank and steals the truck. The 72-year-old real estate agent was found bludgeoned and stabbed by the man who later killed Versace. At the center of their quarrel and legal fight is the garage where Miglin was brutally murdered. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Versace had a longtime boyfriend, Antonio DAmico. But some bizarre details about the crime scene began to emerge. He began his career as a salesman for Arthur Rubloff & Co. in Chicago, as noted by the Washington Post. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Twenty years after the murder of Chicago real estate mogul Lee Miglin, the garage where he was killed is still causing pain for his family. Trails sister told the New York Times that Cunanan had a strange fascination with Trail, and often appeared to try and emulate him. The idea that he just picked him up off the street and stalked him and tortured him and then killed him is bizarre not the most likely scenario.". 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. Marilyn Miglin said on Tuesday, May 6. As depicted in 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,' Cunanan killed four other men before murdering Versace in July 1997. It was actually DNA evidence from the beard trimmings that definitively tied Cunanan to Miglin's murder. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. After the standoff, police went in and found the body speculated to be Cunanan's inside though police were not yet identifying Cunanan at that point. Schlesinger said, "Cunanan was not a normal guy.". Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles. He was shot in the head with Trail's handgun. Season 2 0f American Crime Story: The Assasination of Gianni Versace airs Wednesdays on FX. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. After the killing, Cunanan took Miglin's Lexus and drove to New Jersey. Attention was now focused on a 27-year-old fugitive named Andrew Cunanan. The series, which airs at 9 p.m. Wednesdays, is based on the 1999 book Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth, who covered the Cunanan manhunt for Vanity Fair. Vulgar Favors noted that there was pornography found near his body and Miglin was wearing bikini-style underwear. Finally, as in the show, Cunanan really did make off in Miglins beautiful Lexus sports car. There have likewise been questions about whether Versace knew Cunanan. 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. ''He went out in the afternoons and late evening,'' William J. Esposito, the bureau's deputy director, said at a Washington news conference, per the New York Times. In Thursday, June 12, Andrew Cunanan became the 449th addition to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. A Chicago murder mystery becomes a mushroom cloud. "There was no relationship whatsoever," Duke said. 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. Andrew was thrilled and Eli couldn't believe it. His body was found five days later on the shore of East Rush Lake near Rush City, Minnesota (approximately one hour from Minneapolis by car), with gunshot wounds to his head and back. Either [Cunanan] knew of the guy or knew his son. "Thank you for remembering, Signore Versace." Then Andrew introduced Eli to Versace, who made polite talk. After he murders Miglin, he takes the businessmans dark green Lexus to continue his killing spree. But Versace wasn't the only one who lost his life at the hands of 27-year-old serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Another connection that Orth investigated was one between Cunanan and Lee and Marilyn's son Duke. 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. On May 4, 1997, Cunanan drove to Chicago, Illinois, and killed Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. After telling Miglin, Im in control now (a quote added for dramatic effect, since no one else was in the garage to verify), the fictional Cunanan gags the older mans mouth with a gardening glove, ties him up, and hits him repeatedly in the face. Is Prince Andrew Moving to Frogmore Cottage? Police still did not know why Cunanan had tortured and murdered Miglin and after Cunanan took his own life without leaving a suicide note, there was no way to find out from him. Lee, portrayed by Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H, had his real estate company and Marilyn, played by Judith Light of Transparent, owns a cosmetics and fragrance company. On the road he hears over the car radio that the police are able to track his movements through the cars phone. All Rights Reserved. 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. All Rights Reserved. "It's a painful, painful thing that's happening," said Duke Miglin, Lee Miglin's son. Federal investigators believed Cunanan may have been targeting gay men. While her husband's murder was a tragedy, Marilyn did not let it define her. What American Crime Story Makes Up About Lee Miglin's Horrific Murder, American Crime Story The Assassination Of Gianni Versace. There is no indisputable evidence to suggest Lee Miglin was involved with men or knew Cunanan specifically. The steps of Versaces Miami Beach home shortly after his murder. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. 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. He stole Miglin's care and got a head start on what became a nearly. The mentions of Cunanan's connection to the Miglin family are more along the lines of his actually knowing Duke, the Miglins' son. Cunanan did not torture Reese like he did Miglin, and that makes it seem like perhaps there was something more personal about Miglin's murder. Versaces longtime partner and family have said portions of the series are inaccurate. Why did he want him dead? Authorities believe Cunanan targeted Reese so that he could steal his truck. While those are the facts of the gruesome murder, what isn't known is why Cunanan targeted Miglin specifically, if in fact he did. He bound Miglin's hands and feet and wrapped his head with duct tape, then stabbed him more than twenty times with a screwdriver, slit his throat with a hacksaw, and stole his car. Meanwhile, that red pickup that Cunanan had stolen from Reese was found in a parking garage near Versace's mansion. The FX series doesn't touch this alleged connection, at least not in this episode. And in her Vanity Fair report on Cunanan, she wrote that he was a sex worker. Miglin, however, strongly disputed this, telling ABC there was no relationship whatsoever. Egan is trying to evict his mother-in-law from the garage. What is known about Cunanan and Versace is that the fashion mogul was not Cunanans first victim. Separate fact from fiction with this timeline of Cunanans real-life murders. Police spotted a car with a Minnesota license plate near Miglin's home after the murder, another report from The Chicago Tribune noted. 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. Cunanan wanted to disgrace Miglin. Then Cunanan is shown laying Miglin down in his garage, wrapping his legs together with orange extension cord, strangling him, punching him in the face, throwing a bag of concrete on his chest and stabbing him. Attorneys call the situation an "unfortunate coincidence" which played out Monday in a Cook County courtroom. Miglin was killed in the garage on May 3, 1997 by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Cunanan would use that weapon throughout his murder spree. Man With 'Interest in Killing Black People' Charged With Terrorism After Attempted Train Attack, The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election. Police also noticed the suspect or suspects had helped themselves to a ham in the refrigerator, and left a half-eaten apple behind, before fleeing in Miglin's Lexus. From Vulgar Favors: Lee Miglin's ankles were bound with an orange extension cord wrapped tightly around eight times and tied with a double knot. Cunanan used whatever was at hand in the garage, stabbing Miglin with either pruning shears (says Time) or a screwdriver (as several other reports suggest) and inflicting the throat wound with a gardening saw. The episode's version of events depicts that Lee Miglin knew Andrew Cunanan before Cunanan allegedly killed him. Detectives had said Cunanan murdered Miglin in a crime of opportunity because he needed Miglin's car. Naval Academy in Annapolis and a Gulf War veteran. 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. Blachford was 58 when they met and grieving the loss of his partner of 26 years, who had recently died of AIDS . Miglin home: Miglin was killed at his Gold Coast home on East Scott Street. His murder, which shocked the nation, is the focus of FXs The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Matt Rodriguez arrives at the Miglin home to oversee the crime scene. Then in May, Cunanan repeatedly stabbed Lee Miglin, a 72-year-old Chicago real estate developer and wealthy businessman, according to authorities. The motive behind Cunanan's third murder remains a mystery, according to an article by ABC7Chicago 20 years after Miglin's death. The Chicago Tribune also reported in 2018 that the couple was married for 38 years in 1997 and had two children. His wife, Marilyn, first became alarmed when Lee didnt show up as planned to meet her at the airport, and alerted police when she returned home to find their gate unlocked and the kitchen in disarray. The police deemed the murder a crime of opportunity, according to the Chicago Tribune. But as to the Miglin case, Schlesinger said when it comes to whether Miglin and Cunanan knew each other, he is "not sure it really matters. Andrew Cunanan was entirely dependent on the property of others, who really did have power in social environments. After starting his career as a door-to-door salesman and then broker, Miglin became a successful real estate developer. At any rate, the FBI looked into these claims that Cunanan knew Miglin or his family, but no link was ever established. "A Random Killing" posits that Cunanan and Miglin knew one another, implying that Miglin was a closeted gay or bisexual man who had hired Cunanan, a sex worker, several times before. Egan, CEO of Roseland Hospital, lost a 2011 campaign for 43rd ward alderman. He said if you don't help me I'm going to proceed to file a lawsuit against you, your mother and your wife for the garage," Duke said. In its original report on the murder, The Chicago Tribune noted, "The police department was extraordinarily tightlipped about the case a testimony to Miglin's position of influence in political circles here." Miglins killing: Cunanan is shown putting a white glove in Miglins mouth as a gag and wrapping his head in masking tape in what appears to be foreplay. Lee Miglin was found in his garage with several shallow stab wounds, his throat slit by a bow saw, his feet bound, and his head wrapped in tape, according to a May, 1997 article in Newsweek. Both the FBI and the Cook County State's Attorney's office looked into possible links between the spree killer and the Miglins, but no unimpeachable link was ever established. The pair engage in an intimate conversation onstage after the show. The Sky Needle is grounded in fact (the project. I dont know that its reminiscent of any bondage video.. Trail had been beaten to death with a claw hammer, and his body rolled up in a rug. He left no suicide note or explanation for his crimes. Yet, this version of events goes against what Miglin's family has maintained for 21 years. Marilyn Miglin called the police around 8 a.m. that Sunday, after discovering a 9 mm handgun in the bathroom. Lee Miglin was born and raised in Westville, Illinois in 1925. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. After the first two murders, Andrew Cunanan left for Chicago, and in less than a week's time, on May 3, the wealthy 72-year-old property developer Lee Miglin's body was discovered in his house . The Washington Post noted the link was found in a sport-utility vehicle that had been parked illegally near the Miglin home for several days. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. 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