Gunther’s Millions document reveals wild hoax and orgies behind ‘world’s richest dog’

There were legends about Gunther III.

The German Shepherd reportedly inherited between $400 million and $500 million from a wealthy German countess named Carlotta Liebenstein in the early 1990s.

The story goes that Liebenstein lost her 26-year-old son to suicide and, with no other person in the world, left her vast fortune to a dog.

The press declared Gunther III the richest pet in the world – and he lived his life.

In 2000, it was widely reported that Gunther bought Madonna’s Miami mansion for $7.5 million. Then, a decade later, the puppy allegedly bought a Tuscan villa, a nightclub and a football team in Pisa.

There were steaks, caviar, yachts, private jets, Lamborghinis and servants, including the appointed head caretaker Maurizio Mian, and media attention to boot.

“I wanted to be a tick on that dog’s ass for the rest of my life,” Gunther’s spokesperson Lee Dahlberg says in the new four-part Netflix documentary series Gunther’s Millions, which airs Wednesday.

But Gunther’s fairy tale life was a bunch of dog shit, as the new series shows.

In fact, there was no grieving countess. Mian, a university professor with mental health problems, was the heir to a vast Italian pharmaceutical fortune. Trying to avoid paying taxes, his mother wired hundreds of millions of dollars to a trusted friend in Germany via Lichtenstein, a famous tax haven, and the Bahamas.

When a friend fell ill and died in 1992, Mian came up with an idea to keep running from the tax authorities: leave all the money to the dog.

It was a “low quality comedy,” financial crime expert Jack Bloom says in the docu-series.

Gunther III was just a dog that once belonged to an old friend of Mian’s.

“He was very affectionate. He was a very special dog,” Mian says on the show. “It was also an elaborate decision, a financial ploy to pay taxes… and then the whole media fell in love with this story about the countess and the dog.”

The document’s director, Aurélien Letourgy, told The Post that although Mian willingly participated in the filming, he was an unreliable source. He was prone to what Letourgi called “Maurizio moments” where he made things up out of nowhere, such as that Gunther was cloned.

“We feel like he had a deeper personal journey,” executive producer of the docu-series Emily Think told The Post. “These are the themes that we cover in this series. To really get to know Mauricio and understand why he did everything he did, tell stories and create those fantasies.”

Mian first used the Gunther III in the mid-90s to promote Fosamax, claiming it was a “wonder cure” for German Shepherd osteoporosis.

As soon as Gunther’s 15 minutes of fame in the Italian media come to an end, Mian will not get it. So he pulled off an even bigger stunt by buying Madonna’s Miami waterfront mansion in 2000 for $7.5 million under the Gunther Corporation name.

Mian then held auditions to put together a supergroup of models who were to live in a mansion with Gunther and present an image of a luxurious and happy lifestyle to the obsessed paparazzi.

All credited to Mian, the attractive singles played, bathed and took care of the dogs while the group had fun together and posed for photo shoots. Something much stranger and more disturbing was going on behind the scenes. Mian’s intended goal was to create a micro-utopian society of human euphoria centered around the dog.

A rotating group of five gorgeous men and women, which included Mian’s ex-wife, Carla Richitelli, were allegedly part of a bizarre and often sexual experiment conducted and fully funded by what Letourgie called Mian’s “mad scientist” and a doctor. .

Based on the lie that the Countess wanted to learn more about what makes people happy after her son’s suicide, Mian brought in a research team to study and film those who live in the mansion, as well as their interactions with Gunther.

According to the documentary, they were allegedly encouraged to freely have sex with each other by observing the 13 commandments – such as that science is king and sexuality must be openly expressed – which are said to have come from the Countess herself.

“It definitely had elements of a cult,” Think said.

“[It was a] wild, in the spirit of an orgy, the situation with Caligula, ”says Dahlberg, who once lived in this house, in the series.

In 2001, Mian and Gunther returned to Italy, where Mian founded a new group with local talent, which he called the “Fab Five”. Fabrizio Coronaa media personality who, years later, would be sentenced to prison for tax evasion and fraud involving incriminating photographs of some of Italy’s most powerful figures.

This time around, contestants were allegedly required to wear bulky plastic mood-reading devices draped over their chests. The dystopian device, which lit up in different colors and volumes depending on the emotions experienced, including sexual ones, could only be changed after evaluation by Mian’s researchers.

At some unknown moment Gunther III died.

He was easily replaced by a succession of almost identical German Shepherds – the Gunther IV, who survived until 2005, the Gunther V, who survived until 2018, and the current model Gunther VI.

“We always needed to have one dog that was clearly designated as an heir,” Mian says of the development.

In the early 2000s, the Gunther Trust bought a nightclub in Pisa, renamed Bow Lab, which Mian allegedly used to help him recruit new bodies.

“That allowed him to invite a lot of people,” another former partner, Christina Mian, says in the document. “He could watch them and see if they fit his lifestyle.

Mian inflated the public spectacle more and more by having Gunther supposedly buy the football club and appoint an adult film star as the leader of his group.

“We needed to talk about [sexuality] in a more scientific way and less evil or moralistic,” Mian says in the paper. “So the dog made some strange moves.”

At the same time, Mian was also trying to make the media believe that the child he had with Christina Mian was indeed Gunther’s father in order to create a superhuman race.

Mian, who has never been charged or convicted of any crime, defended his actions: “We did nothing wrong other than tax evasion with a technical device,” he says in the document.

In 2020, it was revealed that Alarico Sgroi, a Tuscan breeder whom Mian had funded to promote the Gunther bloodline since 2012, had in fact been raising the animals under appalling conditions. Police rescued over 50 dogs from Sgroy in the same year. Mian claimed he was unaware of the circumstances.

Günther VI is currently living in Italy with Carla and, according to Leturgi, is doing well. Mian, who is in his 60s, still helps the shepherd.

“He is very well taken care of,” Letourgy says. “He is pampered and loved and is a happy dog.”

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