Opera legend Luciano Pavarottis death has sparked off a crucial concern - what will happen to his multi-million fortune?
London, Sep 7 : Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti's death has sparked off a crucial concern - what will happen to his multi-million fortune?
Many close associates are anticipating a battle over the legacy between the star's bitter ex-wife Adua and his second wife, Nicoletta, 35 years his junior.
Pavarotti married Adua in 1961, but the couple divorced 35 years later, following the tenor's affair with his secretary Nicoletta Mantovani, whom he later married.
Sources claim that even at the time of his death, the bitterness between the two is unlikely to go away as his women and loved ones will claim a share in the estimated 300 million pounds fortune he left.
However, shortly before Pavarotti died, his former manager Herbert Breslin wondered whether he was actually happy with these women and with the exorbitant money he earned.
"I wonder if he loved the women who shared his life, or simply appreciated their convenience and usefulness to the reflected glow cast on him by their beauty?" the Daily Mail quoted Breslin, as saying.
"I wonder if he was happy with the money we made?" he added.
Pavarotti, 71, died on Sep 6 at his home in Modena, Northern Rome, after losing his long battle with cancer.
ANI