1057 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Okay, technically this is the address of the two-story, seven-bar complex Twist, the last of Cunanan’s haunts from South Beach’s gay bar glory days. But it opens its doors at 1pm and in a ven diagram, it’s really the only spot left where local drag queen Elaine Lancaster, Gianni Versace and Cunanan would overlap. In fact, Orth details a night out in which Cunanan danced a very handsy hustle with a hairdresser from West Palm Beach. When the hairdresser asked Cunanan what he did for a living, he blithely replied, “I’m a serial killer.”

Lancaster, who famously plays herself in Golan’s “The Versace Murder” and also a couple of episodes of FX’s “American Crime Story,” is billed in the Golan film on IMDB as Decollette Hercules. “It was another drag queen,” Lancaster explains, “but she was illegal so she didn’t want to go on camera and get deported. And, of course, you know me, I have never shied away from a camera or attention. So I said, “I’ll do it!” She describes the “American Crime Story” project as much more real.

An early visit when the Versace mansion still under construction is what convinced Lancaster to move to Miami and she recalls that in the FX production “everything was Versace: the china, the fabrics, the towels and they shot in the mansion so it was very authentic.” But Lancaster was able to see that authenticity when the mansion was still being built.

“I looked around,” she remembers of her construction site tour, “and I thought this is a palace. How beautiful. And I wanted to be part of it. I was young and impressionable.” She admits she doesn’t go out much anymore and thinks of the murder as the day the music died. “People stopped coming,” Lancaster says simply, “the Miami Beach Police and the FBI could have done more, and if the victims weren’t a bunch of gay men, they might have. Who knows?”

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