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Luciano Pavarotti's Second Wife Accused of Cheating Her Husband Out of His US Fortune
29 October, 2007
In the aftermath of the famous tenor's death, the string of feuds, controversies and spectacular revelations continues to unfold. In a surprise announcement, it was made public that Luciano Pavarotti's second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, is currently being investigated by the Italian police over claims that the late opera singer was "coerced" into signing over his entire US fortune to her. Following her husband's death last month, Mantovani received all her late husband's US estate, which includes a New York apartment and a Henri Matisse painting, as was stipulated in Pavarotti's American will. It came as an extreme surprise that Pavarotti's three daughters from his first marriage, Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana, received nothing in the American will, although an earlier draft left almost everything to them. Last night, Italian prosecutors launched an investigation into the startling possibility that Pavarotti (who died aged 71, after a grueling battle with pancreatic cancer) may have been forced into signing a new will just six weeks before he died. The investigation is headed by a prosecutor called Massimo Di Patria, who stated that "what is being suggested is very serious. I will be looking to see if Pavarotti was coerced - that he had no idea what he was signing because of his state of mind".
You will be asking yourself then what might have possibly caused the launch of the official investigation – well, believe it or not, it was a magazine interview with a notary official called Luciano Buonanno, and who gave some unsettling details about the meeting he had with Pavarotti in July at the tenor's seaside villa and when the two of them went over Pavarotti's American will. "The lady of the house (Mantovani) was very cold. She appeared very nervous and acknowledged my greeting without even shaking my hand and then she left for the beach. At an earlier meeting I hadn't been happy about some points of the American will but I was told that it had all been sorted by his lawyers and I was not to change anything", the notary explains. This statement as such is not altogether that incriminating, but I am sure that since they decided to open an investigation, the Italian Police must have some more arguments to suggest foul play. Anyway, the Pavarotti will saga continues, and we will of course bring you all the details as they emerge. Posted by admin at 05:51 PM | View: (156) |
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