The Villa Casa Casuarina At The Former Versace Mansion

This guide to the Villa Casa Casuarina centers on the morning of July 15, 1997, when Gianni Versace walked home from his regular stroll to the News Cafe and a man was waiting by the gate you're standing at. You'll hear about Versace's partner Antonio D'Amico finding him on these steps, and about the manhunt for the shooter that played out across Miami Beach in the days after. The guide also traces the mansion's earlier life, built in 1930 for an oil heir who modeled it on a sixteenth-century Caribbean fortress, decades before Versace ever bought it.