Lady Gaga will be playing Donatella Versace in the third season of American Crime Story, Us Weekly reports. The Golden Globe-winning actress has been cast as Versace's current creative director for a 10-episode installment of the FX drama, focused on the murder of designer Gianni Versace in July 1997.

"The tragedy of the Versace murder was that it should not have happened," the show's creator Ryan Murphy said of the inspiration behind the new season. "He should have been caught by then. But he wasn't caught because he was targeting gay people, and people didn't care. That's why Gianni Versace was killed, for the most part. So it's a really tragic story and I've always said the thing that makes me cry the most in the world is lost potential, or lost possibility, and I think he was such an amazing force taken too soon for reasons which he shouldn't have been."

Titled Versace/Cunanan: American Crime Story, the new show reportedly begins filming early next year.