Famed designer Donatella Versace is slamming a brand new Florida resort and restaurant along with her identify.
“Let me be clear. The resort and restaurant named Donatella, positioned close to our former household dwelling in Miami, won’t ever have something to do with me or my household. To attempt to capitalize on our tragedy and my identify for revenue is disgraceful,” the style icon stated by way of Instagram.
The Nakash and Vida & Estilo Hospitality teams — who turned the mansion of Donatella’s tragically killed brother, Gianni, right into a resort, the Villa Casa Casuarina, with an eatery known as Gianni’s — are opening a brand new Miami Seaside property, named the Donatella Boutique Resort & Restaurant.
The place was profiled in Ocean Drive journal this week.
However Donatella desires followers to know that she’s not concerned within the 170-seat restaurant and 6 room resort — regardless of the identify.
A rep for the hospitality group didn’t get again to us once we reached out for remark.
The Nakash household behind Jordache reportedly bought the South Seaside mansion that when belonged to Gianni Versace in 2013 for $41.5 million.
Gianni purchased the property in 1992, and was tragically fatally shot on its steps in 1997. The household offered it in 2000, and it operated as a non-public membership and as a boutique resort.
Individually, Web page Six reported in March that Donatella was allegedly unceremoniously “pushed out” from her household model when Capri Holdings, which additionally owns Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo introduced she was stepping down as chief artistic officer after nearly 30 years.
