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Allegra Gucci, daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani, is arguing—in a new book and through animated NFTs produced under the pseudonym “Grosky”—that Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci got it all wrong. Gucci, according to The Times of London, claims that the Guccis were “fascinating, elegant and charming people,” and that Al Pacino’s version of Maurizio’s uncle, Aldo Gucci, “was false,” before adding, “‘Aldo was a very intelligent man and a real gentleman’. Her grandfather, Ferdinando Reggiani, was ‘an elegant man who only wore silk shirts.’… The film erroneously depicts her father as a ‘fool’ and a ‘slave’ to Patrizia Reggiani’s charms.”

The Times added that Gucci “makes no attempt to defend her mother, who was jailed for paying a pizzeria owner to kill Maurizio after he sold his share in the fashion empire and left her for another woman.” However accurate or inaccurate House of Gucci—which also starred Adam Driver and Lady Gaga, and grossed $156 million—may be, her central criticism of the film (“terrible”) has the ring of truth.