Dog gets German designer's house

Murdered German fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer has left his home in Munich to his Yorkshire terrier Daisy.

Under the terms of Moshammer's will his beloved pet will stay at the villa until she dies, cared for by his former chauffeur, the newspaper Bild reports.

A 25-year-old Iraqi man has been charged with killing the designer, found dead at his home on 14 January.

Millions of Germans are expected to watch TV coverage of the flamboyant 64-year-old's funeral on Saturday.

Always seen with Daisy in his arms, he built a reputation for the extravagant clothes he designed and wore, and was well known on Germany's celebrity circuit.

Among his clients were Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger, now Governor of California, tenor Jose Carreras and the Las Vegas-based magicians Siegfried and Roy.

Moshammer first opened a boutique in Munich's most expensive street, Maximilianstrasse, in 1967, where he offered his fur, cashmere and silk garments.

His funeral procession is expected to pause in front of the shop before continuing on to Munich's Ostfriedhof cemetery, where he will be buried next to his mother and a previous pet Yorkshire terrier.

According to reports, the designer's will stipulates that the bulk of his estate should go to the benefactor who helped him realise the dream of opening the boutique almost 40 years ago.

Meanwhile, the proceeds from the sale of the shop, limousines and other possessions are to go charities for the homeless.

In 2002, Moshammer sold a shirt thought to have been worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo at auction for more than 62,000 euros ($81,200), donating the proceeds to a Munich homeless charity.

He tried to stiff a male hooker, pardon the pun:

But in private, this king of society had a side that was as dark as the jet black bouffant hairdo. The public caught a glimpse of these shadows early in the police investigation. Witnesses said they had seen Moshammer's Rolls-Royce on the night of Jan. 13 prowling the streets around the main train station, a preferred hangout of young male streetwalkers. The dark side came into full light on Sunday as a result of the police's fast work. On Saturday night, police stormed the apartment of a 25-year-old Iraqi. A DNA sample found on the cord had led them to Herisch A., a cook in a fast-food restaurant who had given police a voluntary DNA sample in a separate case last year. Police said Herisch had told them that Moshammer picked him up just before midnight near the train station, saying he would pay him €2,000 ($2,600) for sex. But back at Moshammer's home in the affluent suburb of Grünwald, Moshammer only wanted to pay €200, police said the suspect reported. A fight broke out, and the suspect strangled the 64-year-old Moshammer, police said.

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