Most of us remember the shooting death of Gianni Versace at his Miami home, Casa Casuarina, the way our parents recall the assassination of President Kennedy: as a tragedy of international proportions. Many vividly recall the resulting hordes of tourists swarming the Ocean Drive mansion for the gruesome photo op of a lifetime, posing next to the bloodstains left on the steps. A lot of us have kept avid track of what's been happening to the property at 1116 Ocean Dr. ever since -- from when it was first reopened in the fall of 1997 by Versace's siblings Donatella and Santo for a benefit for the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, to when it was put on the market in 2000 and sold to telecommunications entrepreneur Peter Lofton for $19 million. Hey, that was only four to six million under the asking... More >>>