Antonio D'Amico

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Antonio D'Amico (born 1959) is a model and fashion designer.cite web | url=http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/gianniversace.html KnittingCircleOrg-GVersace | title=The Knitting Circle: Fashion - Gianni Versace (and Antonio D'Amico) | publisher = The Knitting Circle|date= 2001-08-28] He is best known as the companion of Gianni Versace.

Biography

D'Amico was born in southern Italy, and raised in Milan.Fact|date=April 2008 He was hired as a part time office executive for his first job.Fact|date=April 2008He met Versace in 1982 and eventually embarked on a long-term relationship that lasted 11 years, until Versace's untimely death in 1997.citation|last=Spindler | first=Amy M. | title= Gianni Versace, 50, the Designer Who Infused Fashion With Life and Art | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06EEDC1338F935A25754C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |date=1997-07-16 | periodical=New York Times] During that time he worked as designer for the Versace Sport line. D'Amico now runs his own fashion design company.Fact|date=April 2008

Versace's will left D'Amico with a pension of 50 million lire a month for life (about €26,000), and the right to live in any of Versace's homes in Italy and the United States. D'Amico's relations with the rest of the Versace family have not always been easy; Donatella Versace said in March 1999 that "My relationship with Antonio is exactly as it was when Gianni was alive. I respected him as the boyfriend of my brother, but I never liked him as a person. So the relationship stayed the same." [citation|last=Horyn|first=Cathy|title=Versaces Halt Unauthorized Book on Slain Designer |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2D81231F936A15756C0A96F958260 | date=1999-05-25 | periodical=New York Times]

Notes and references

External links

* [http://home.nyc.rr.com/alweisel/outantoniodamico.htm The Widower Versace] Article from Out (magazine)

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