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A Miami Beach Police car sits in front of the house owned by Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and where he was shot and killed in this July 15, 1997 file photo. On September 17, 2013 the house will go on auction, and was estimated at 123 million USD value. Reportedly bids for the home, which had served as a hotel until early 2013, are expected to start at 25 million USD. Versace was 50 when he was killed by Andrew Cunanan, who would commit suicide eight days later. AFP PHOTO/ROBERT SULLIVAN/FILES.
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MIAMI (FL).- The palatial Miami villa where fashion icon Gianni Versace was shot dead in 1997 is to be sold at auction and is expected to fetch more than $50 million, the company managing the sale said Thursday.
The house and outbuildings which comprise Versace's former home are located just a stone's throw from the beach on Miami's Ocean Drive tourist strip.
The property had been transformed into a boutique hotel but is being sold off by its current owner.
An auction has been scheduled for September 17. Lamar Fischer, the president of the Fischer Auction Company which is handling the sale, said he expected the estate to be sold within 30 minutes.
Asked how much he expected the property to sell for, Fischer told AFP: "That's the million dollar question, isn't it?
"You never know for sure in these cases but you could say that the real estate value of the property is certainly above $50 million, so we expect the price to go higher than that."
Versace, 50, was shot dead on the steps of his home in July 1997 by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
Cunanan, who had murdered four other people in the months leading to the designer's killing, committed suicide eight days after Versace's murder.
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