Allegra Beck recalls Gianni Versace's death

Allegra Beck has moved onto the board at Versace after being a member of the design team for a number of years. The stunning heiress feels ready to undertake a more active role in the successful company.

The 25-year-old inherrited 50 per cent of the fashion company when she turned 18 after her uncle Gianni Versace, was murdered in Miami in 1997.

As a favourite of her uncle's, Allegra told La Repubblica: "For years I lived in the dark. I remembered little of my life before that terrible day. I even forgot what he looked like, and everything I felt about him.

"Then, little by little the memories came back. Emotions, flashes of happiness, and I was finally free of the emptiness that scared me so much."

Allegra believes her uncle was unique and that no designer will ever be able to rival the mark that Gianni left of the fashion world.

She went on to say: "'My uncle did not work, the job was his life. I do not think that today there is anybody like him."

Donatella told New York Magazine: "He was always with Allegra. Since she was nine years old she would go to museums with him, she knew all the museums in America, in France, in England, and Gianni loved art. 

She would sit with him and go through art books, and she knew the art of Picasso. It was adorable."

Now, the daughter or Donatella Versace and Paul Beck, has learned to live with the trauma and move forwards with her life.

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