A year after his divorce, on March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci was shot and killed by a hitman on the steps outside his office as he arrived at work.[19] The day he was killed, Patrizia wrote a single word in her diary: "paradeisos" the Greek word for paradise.[20] On January 31, 1997, Patrizia was arrested and accused of hiring the hitman that murdered Gucci.