Pavarotti estate settled 'fairly': lawyer

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

ROME (AFP) — Luciano Pavarotti's estate has been settled "fairly," a lawyer said in an interview published Monday after reports of a dispute between the opera legend's second wife and three daughters from his first marriage.

"The property was shared fairly," Anna Maria Bernini, the lawyer of Pavarotti's second wife Nicoletta Mantovani, told Il Resto del Carlino, a daily of Pavarotti's native Emilia Romagna region.

"Nicoletta and the three daughters (from the tenor's first marriage) are friends," she said. "It was this affection that made it possible to reach the best conclusion to the negotiations on the estate."

Italian media were swirling with rumours that Pavarotti's last will drafted some six weeks before his death on September 6, 2007, excluded the...