In Popular Culture
Donatella has been regularly impersonated by Maya Rudolph on the American sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live, which airs on the NBC network. In reality, Rudolph and Versace are good friends. She is also perpetrated as a highly publicized user of the Power-Plate.
Versace was portrayed by actress Dania Deville in the 1998 film The Versace Murder.
Versace is much referred to in the Lauren Weisberger novel The Devil Wears Prada and is mentioned in the film with the same name.
In addition, Donatella was parodied in the first season of Ugly Betty with Gina Gershon playing the character of Fabia.
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