Lawyers representing various family members of late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti deny that there are differences over his will, despite local media reports.
The portion bequeathed to his three daughters from his first marriage "will not be broken, nothing will be taken from them," lawyer Anna Maria Bernini, who represents Pavarotti's second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, said.
In his last will, the tenor left Mantovani his three New York apartments and sundry items such as paintings by Henri Matisse worth some 15 million euros ($24 million) through a trust set up just a few days before his death.
The Italian press reports that Pavarotti's last will, drafted on July 29, excluded the daughters from his first marriage from the 15 million euro worth of assets held by the trust.
Fabrizio Corsini, representing Pavarotti's three daughters from his first marriage, told the ANSA news agency that the trust would not be "subtracted" from his total assets and confirmed that the value of his estate would have to be recalculated.
Media estimates of Pavarotti's fortune vary from from 30 million to 200 million euros. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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