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Tom Cruise Nightmare Over Gianni Versace’s Killer

Murderer saw 'Top Gun' star's love as his destiny!

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Tom Cruise was the demented obsession of Gianni Versace's  murderer — the serial killer Andrew Cunanan — who bragged he’d one day become the "Cocktail" stud's lover!

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“Andrew was consumed by Tom,” Michael O’Brien, a one-time pal of the notorious gay gigolo, told The National ENQUIRER. “He lusted after him sexually. He had a Cruise gauge or meter when it came to rating other guys.

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"If somebody said to him a guy on the street was cute, Andrew would say, ‘Oh, he’s OK, but he’s no Tom Cruise," O'Brien recalled. "No guy is as cute as my Tom.” Cunanan was a four-hour drive from Tom’s home in Clearwater, Fla., when he shot Versace on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion.

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The murder of the “Designer to the Stars” on July 15, 1997, shocked the nation — and Cunanan’s obsession with the “Top Gun” superstar is among the revelations uncovered by The ENQUIRER ahead of the Jan. 17 premiere of the FX series “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” shown here shooting on location in May, 2017.

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The ENQUIRER also discovered Cunanan — who brutally killed four men in three states before shooting Versace — was likely motivated by a fear that he'd been infected with AIDS-causing HIV. San Diego AIDS counselor Mike Dudley said he spoke to Cunanan about safe sex.

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He said Cunanan jumped up, kicked the wall and yelled, “If I found out who did this to me, I’m gonna get them.” Six hours before Cunanan put a gun to Versace’s head, he spied on his victim (left) at a popular Miami Beach hot spot called Liquid.

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The ENQUIRER has learned the two men were close enough that night to touch each other, although Cunanan hid in the shadows. “I never thought much about it,” revealed one witness. “I figured he was just another young wannabe hoping to attract Gianni’s attention." (Gianni's sister Donatella, right, took over design at Versace after the tragedy.)

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"Now I know the opposite was true," the witness continued. "He was there planning the kill.” Kooky killer Cunanan “was dancing by himself until 4 a.m. And he looked really strange at times. It was like he was performing some sort of weird ritual,” spilled the witness.

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Cunanan shot himself to death eight days after murdering Versace, and his obsession with Cruise is chilling given the implied danger Tom faced with the fanatic being just a short drive away. “Andrew wanted to be Tom Cruise and often emulated him,” his pal Michael told The ENQUIRER.

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“He’d go to Hollywood and hit the best places and drive around in a rented BMW in the hopes of running into his hero. He had a vast collection of leather jackets, but his favorite was the bomber jacket that looked exactly like the one Cruise wore in ‘Top Gun.’

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"Andrew would look in the mirror and pretend to be the characters Tom played in the movies," said Michael. “He really believed that one day he and Tom might actually be together. That’s how crazy he was about the whole thing.”

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