Gianni Versace owned four luxurious homes by in Milano, New York , Miami and at Moltrasio on Lake Como. Of these, the Villa Le Fontanelle at Moltrasio is the one he loved most. Celebrities and rock stars such as Madonna, Elton John, Sting, Sylvester Stallone and Naomi Campbell were frequent guests at the villa. In an interview, the designer is quoted as saying "the house in Moltrasio is a Proust house, whereas the ones in Milano and Miami are more Batman". That is to say, the Moltrasio villa was a house where he could reflect and contemplate, while life in the others was centered around the future and his work: " the one in Moltrasio is the house which really belongs to me:reflecting a mirror-image of all that I am, for better or worse." The reason for this is , at least in part, because he was so involved in the renovation of Le Fontanelle and its decor. Versace chose every item personally, from the world's auction houses: furniture, paintings, table linens, dinnerware: all in the same pure neo-classical style that graced the villa in 1700.