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11 Assassination Of Gianni Versace cast members with their real-life counterparts

Now that the show's on BBC we want to know how accurate the casting was

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The Assassination of Gianni Versace is FINALLY airing in the UK, and immersing us all into the world of 1990s Miami Beach. So here's a look at some of the real-life people portrayed in the series, which is currently on BBC 2 Wednesday nights at 9pm.

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Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramírez)

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Edgar, who starred with Jennifer Lawrence in Joy (among many other things), plays fashion designer Gianni Versace, who was murdered outside his Miami Beach home in 1997. Versace founded his namesake label in 1978 and counted many celebrities — Elton John, Madonna, and more — as friends.

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Donatella Versace (Penélope Cruz)

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Penélope plays Gianni Versace's younger sister Donatella, who took over the Versace label after her brother's death. "When my brother was murdered, I had the eyes of the whole world on me and 99% of them thought I wasn’t going to make it," she said in 2017. "And maybe I thought the same, at first. My brother was the king, and my whole world had crashed around me."

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Antonio D'Amico (Ricky Martin)

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Antonio was Versace's partner; the pair met in 1982 and were in a relationship until Versace's death in 1997. Last year, Antonio criticised the show after seeing paparazzi photos that showed Ricky holding Edgar's body during filming. "The picture of Ricky Martin holding the body in his arms is ridiculous," he told The Guardian. "Maybe it’s the director’s poetic license, but that is not how I reacted."

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Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss)

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Andrew Cunanan, played by Darren Criss, was the man who murdered Versace. He killed at least four other people in addition to the designer, who was his final victim, and by the time he made it to Miami Beach, the FBI was already looking for him. Eight days after killing Versace, he committed suicide in a houseboat docked in a waterway not far from Versace's house.

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Lee Miglin (Mike Farrell)

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Lee, a prominent Chicago businessman, was one of Andrew's other victims. After his body was found, the FBI added Andrewto its 10 Most Wanted List.

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Marilyn Miglin (Judith Light)

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Marilyn Miglin was Lee Miglin's wife; she suspected something was amiss when her husband did not pick her up at the airport after she returned from a business trip. She founded a successful cosmetics line that is still sold on HSN.

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Jeffrey Trail (Finn Wittrock)

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Jeffrey Trail, a former naval officer, was Andrew's first victim. Trail's family members denied that he was in a relationship with Andrew but said that Andrew had a strange obsession with Jeffrey. "When Jeff got a haircut, Andrew had to have the exact same haircut," Jeffrey's sister, Lisa, told The New York Times in 1997. "When Jeff went to San Francisco and got a certain style of baseball cap, Andrew had to go to San Francisco and get the very same cap. When Jeff grew a goatee, Andrew grew a goatee."

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David Madson (Cody Fern)

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Andrew murdered David shortly after killing Jeffrey; the two met in 1995 and later began dating. At the time of his death, David was working at an architecture and design firm in Minneapolis.

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Detective George Navarro (José Zúñiga)

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George was a lead detective on the Versace case. When the FBI approached him to tell him that the Versace murder was likely connected to other homicides, he said he got "goosebumps."

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Detective Paul Scrimshaw (Will Chase)

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Paul (in blue) was also a lead detective with the Miami Beach police department. He died in 2006 at age 60.

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Santo Versace (Giovanni Cirfiera)

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Santo is the older brother of Gianni and Donatella. As depicted on the show, he traveled to Miami Beach with Donatella after hearing the news of Gianni's murder. He was co-CEO of Versace until 2004.

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