A miniature portrait of the Victorian-era, Spanish-born opera singer Dame Adelina Patti is among the late Gianni Versace's belongings being auctioned. Versace, a famous Italian fashion designer, was shot to death by spree killer Andrew Cunanan in Miami in 1997. A collection of 500 items, including furniture, statues and paintings, from Versace's Lake Como home, are being auctioned off by Sotheby's, The Western Mail of Wales reported. The possessions are expected to fetch about $2.9 million. Among the items being sold is Lucien Francois Penet's 1899 rendering of Patti, who lived in the Welsh town of Swansea.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The famed 1930s Miami Beach landmark Casa Casuarina (the former Versace Mansion), owned and operated by entrepreneur Peter Loftin, is proud to announce the opening of Loftin's 1116 Ocean, the estate's signature restaurant.

Italian designer Gai Mattiolo says being placed under house arrest in Rome while he faces financial fraud and tax charges is unfair. The designer once dubbed the new Versace, a reference to fashion guru Gianni Versace, said he is innocent of all the charges, which he contends are destroying his reputation, The Sunday Times of London reported. It's a mistake, I'm just the victim in this whole affair, Mattiolo said.

GIANNI Versace, a dazzling designer with a complicated sex life, ends up murdered. His sister, Donatella, inherits his fashion house and turns into as famous a couturiire, the queen of catwalks treaded by ever thinner models.

By Andrea Torres, The Miami Herald Sep. 4--Paul Wesley Scrimshaw Jr., a veteran Miami Beach detective who led the investigation into the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, died Saturday from melanoma. He was 60. Scrimshaw was on duty at 8:45 a.m.