Jared Leto wraps up warm in blue padded jacket and dons face mask

Jared Leto wraps up warm in blue padded jacket and dons face mask as he steps out in Milan where he is filming House of Gucci

He is currently in Milan filming scenes for the upcoming movie House of Gucci where he plays Paolo Gucci.

And Jared Leto looked in high spirits as he left his hotel in the Italian city on Friday afternoon where he is staying amid shooting his scenes.

The actor, 49, wrapped up warm in a blue North Face padded jacket and navy Gucci tracksuit bottoms.

Casual: Jared Leto wrapped up warm in a blue padded jacket and donned a face mask as he stepped out in Milan where he is filming House of Gucci

He completed his very casual look with a pink stripped beanie and wore a beige and black checked shirt under his warm jacket.

The star made sure to put safety first by donning a pink face mask as he waved to fans while setting off on his stroll.

Jared is currently in Milan filming for House of Gucci, where he plays Paolo Gucci, the grandson of Guccio Gucci. 

Style: The actor, 49, wrapped up warm in the North Face padded jacket and navy Gucci tracksuit bottoms

Style: The actor, 49, wrapped up warm in the North Face padded jacket and navy Gucci tracksuit bottoms

He will star in the film alongside Lady Gaga who plays Patrizia Reggiani, in celebrated director Ridley Scott’s autobiographical drama about the 1995 assassination of Italian businessman Maurizio Gucci.

The film, which documents Reggiani’s plot to murder her ex-husband, is based on the novel The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by author Sara Gay Forden.  

Patrizia Reggiani, nicknamed the ‘Black Widow’, was found guilty of paying a hit man €300,000 (£240,000) to murder 46–year–old Maurizio Gucci, an heir to the fashion empire, in 1995.

Stepping out: He completed his very casual look with a pink stripped beanie and wore a beige and black checked shirt under his warm jacket

Stepping out: He completed his very casual look with a pink stripped beanie and wore a beige and black checked shirt under his warm jacket

He had left her for another woman 10 years previously after telling her he was going on a short business trip. 

She was also said to be furious her former husband had started seeing other women, and feared her daughters’ $170million inheritance was at risk if he remarried before ordering the hit.    

She also wanted more than the $650,000 she had been offered in a divorce settlement, the court heard. 

Reggiani eventually hired hitman Benedetto Ceraulo, a debt-ridden pizzeria owner who shot Gucci dead on the steps of his office in Milan as he arrived for work. Ceraulo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. 

She was convicted after her clairvoyant and confidante Pina Auriemma turned informer and told police about the plot.

During the murder trial, which transfixed Italy, Reggiani arrived each day wearing head-to-toe Gucci clothes and accessories. 

Stars: Jared will star in the film alongside Lady Gaga (right) who plays Patrizia Reggiani, in celebrated director Ridley Scott's autobiographical drama about the 1995 assassination of Italian businessman Maurizio Gucci played by Adam Driver (left)

Stars: Jared will star in the film alongside Lady Gaga (right) who plays Patrizia Reggiani, in celebrated director Ridley Scott’s autobiographical drama about the 1995 assassination of Italian businessman Maurizio Gucci played by Adam Driver (left)

The Gucci empire 

The fashion empire of Gucci was founded in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, a Florentine leather merchant whose business of selling leather travel bags prospered after the Depression and World War Two.

Guccio’s son Aldo expanded the business into Paris, New York and Tokyo as the ‘twin Gs’ of the family name became a worldwide fashion icon.

By 1974, the Gucci empire numbered 14 stores and 46 franchised boutiques around the world.

At around the same time, celebrities like Jackie Kennedy were helping establish Gucci as the world’s leading fashion brand by embracing its products.

Maurizio Gucci, Guccio’s grandson and Aldo’s nephew, took control of the company from the board of directors after Aldo, who was sent to prison for tax evasion in 1986 aged 81.

However, Maurizio would be the last member of the family to head the Gucci business.

By 1989, nearly 50 per cent of the business had been bought out by Investcorp, a group of investment bankers angling for shares of the business.

In 1993, Maurizio sold his holding for $170m to a Bahrain-based investment company.