Cunanan allegedly first met fashion designer Gianni Versace in San Francisco in October 1990, when Versace was in town to be fitted for the costumes he had designed for the San Francisco Opera production of Richard Strauss's opera "Capriccio", although Versace's family has always denied that the two men ever met. In December 1995, Cunanan met David Madson, a Minneapolis architect, in a San Francisco bar. They began a long-distance relationship shortly after, but Madson ended the relationship in the spring of 1996, telling friends he sensed something "shady" about Cunanan. Cunanan told friends that Madson was the "love of my life".