Heard About the Dog Selling a Mansion? It’s Fake

The commonly noted information: A German Shepard marketed a Miami mansion when owned by Madonna. It is not correct, and that story has been reappearing for 20 several years.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – For extra than 20 years, a line of German shepherds named Gunther has been presented in information tales as the rich beneficiaries of a German countess.

The story appears to be a ruse established by Maurizio Mian, the scion of an Italian pharmaceutical firm, who has used the tale of the globe-trotting canine to market real estate profits and other initiatives.

The Involved Press documented previous 7 days that a canine, Gunther VI, was offering a Miami mansion that it had ordered from Madonna for $7.5 million in 2000 for $31.75 million. The tale cited statements from Gunther’s “handler” that the dog was from a long line of dogs bequeathed the fortune of a German countess.

Although the mansion is in fact owned and getting bought by the Gunther Corp., in accordance to Miami-Dade County assets documents, the dog’s function appears to be small much more than a joke that’s carried on for a long time.

And there is no evidence of a German countess.

The AP reported on the tale following receiving a press release from publicists representing the serious estate brokers who experienced the listing.

“The AP released a story that did not meet up with our specifications and need to not have been published. We did not do our owing diligence in the reporting method. We have corrected the tale, and we apologize,” AP spokeswoman Lauren Easton claimed in a statement.

Mian advised an Italian newspaper in 1995 that the countess “was just an creation to publicize the philosophy” of his foundation. Mian at other factors has claimed his confessions about the countess are the authentic hoax and the dog tales are, in fact, actual.

Mian’s personal income seems to have come from his family’s Italian pharmaceutical business. Istituto Gentili, which designed a treatment method for the bone-weakening disease osteoporosis with the U.S. pharmaceutical large Merck, was obtained by Merck in 1997. An Italian cellphone quantity detailed for Mian was not answered Tuesday.

Responding to issues from the AP Tuesday about the veracity of the story, Monica Tirado, director of the Gunther Group, explained that Carla Riccitelli, who explained herself to the AP as Gunther’s handler, is Mian’s “ex-husband or wife.” Tirado explained that the enterprise couldn’t solution more thoughts, such as about the story of the German countess, because “there is an exclusive agreement with a Netflix production.” A ask for for remark with Netflix to get particulars about any generation was not returned.

This is just the newest in a string of tales about Gunther informed by Mian.

In 1999, The Miami Herald reported that Gunther IV was seeking to purchase a mansion from actor Sylvester Stallone. The future day, the Herald reported that it was just a publicity stunt.

“If you want to produce it’s a joke, you can generate that,” Mian instructed the Herald. “I will not do anything at all.”

In Mian’s tale of the puppies, the Gunthers are supposedly supported by a multi-million dollar trust set up by German countess Karlotta Liebenstein when she died in 1992 to care for her pet, Gunther III, and his progeny. The AP has observed no proof that Liebenstein existed.

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