Cunanan's mother was forced to live on welfare and food stamps. He was kept by an older, wealthy gay man, who provided him with credit cards, a fancy address, and a nice car. Eventually, the man took back the perks and kicked him out. Cunanan became a cheap hustler who, his friends said, picked up pocket money by selling drugs. Cunanan held people's attention by fabricating new personas for himself.
Nobody really knows the truth.
In the end, though, he made sure the world knew a big part of it. During his final chapter in Miami, Cunanan was among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, on the lam following a murderous spree. Short of signing his name on the sidewalk next to the victim, this was his next best way of doing it. The Versace murder set in motion a nationwide manhunt and, for a few days, made Cunanan the object of more sightings than Elvis. Cunanan got a huge dose of the attention he craved by connecting himself grotesquely to Versace, though the media revealed him to be pathological and pathetic.