2 men were found dead in a hotel room at the Versace mansion in Miami nearly 24 years to the day the fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered there
- Housekeeping found two dead bodies in a hotel room at the former Versace mansion on Wednesday.
- The mansion, now a hotel and event center, used to belong to the fashion designer Gianni Versace.
- A serial killer murdered Versace on the steps of the mansion on July 15, 1997.
The police said they were investigating after two men were found dead at the former Versace mansion in Miami Beach, Florida, on Wednesday. The mansion is now a luxury boutique hotel and event center called the Villa Casa Casuarina.
The Miami Beach Police Department said it received a call in the afternoon notifying officers that housekeeping had found the bodies in a hotel room.
Ernesto Rodriguez, a department spokesperson, told Insider that the investigation was contained to the hotel room and that the rest of the property remained open as of Wednesday afternoon. No other details have been released.
The bodies were found nearly 24 years to the day that the iconic fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of the mansion, which he had purchased in 1992.
On July 15, 1997, Versace was returning from a morning walk to buy magazines when a man shot him in the head point-blank. The killer, Andrew Cunanan, was found to have killed four other men in a cross-country spree. Cunanan killed himself eight days after Versace's murder.
Versace was 50 when he died. His murder was the subject of the 2018 TV drama "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story."