"Whoever killed has cashed in. Whoever lost their father has paid." This is how Allegra Gucci, one of the two daughters of entrepreneur Maurizio Gucci, murdered in 1995 on the orders of his wife Patrizia Reggiani, commented on social media on the European Court of Human Rights' decision not to proceed with the petition filed by her and her sister Alessandra challenging the order to uphold their parents' divorce agreement, which provides for a life annuity for their mother, Patrizia Reggiani.

The two Gucci sisters turned to the European Court "not for financial reasons, but to obtain what the Italian judicial system had denied them," the lengthy post states: recognition of the aberration created by rulings that had ordered them to pay over forty million Swiss francs to their father's murderer. The ECHR didn't say they were wrong. It didn't examine the merits. It did something far more frustrating: it dismissed the case without ruling." "The money, ironically, was supposed to come from the inheritance left to the daughters of Maurizio Gucci: the man she had had murdered on March 27, 1995," Allegra Gucci continues. The post reveals her anger and frustration over this story, which she says has been reported with "sensational but profoundly inaccurate headlines."

There was no secret agreement, Maurizio Gucci's daughter clarifies. "Allegra and Alessandra had to negotiate under the concrete threat of foreclosure proceedings, the seizure of assets, including their home. Paying €3.9 million was the only way to settle a dispute that, otherwise, would have dragged on indefinitely," the statement posted on Instagram continues. "It wasn't a free agreement. It was a surrender to a judgment that should never have existed." And then the bitterness at the end. "Imagine someone being kidnapped and forced to pay a ransom to regain their freedom. Once paid, they turn to the courts to convict the kidnappers and obtain justice. But the response is: 'You've already paid the ransom, the matter is resolved,'" Allegra Gucci's statement concludes.