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In life, Diego Maradona spent his brilliant career surrounded by players trying to take the ball from him.
Now dead, his £ 75 million estate is being approached by up to 10 children, a former lover and the Italian tax collector, all targeting a portion of his millions.
Yesterday, the inheritance game started with a play as scandalous as that of any of the Argentine icons on the field.
Just 48 hours after his burial, a teenager claiming to be Maradona’s illegitimate son demanded that the body be unearthed.
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Santiago Lara, 19, wants an exhumation to have a DNA test done on the soccer legend who died of a heart attack at 60 on Wednesday.
And that’s just the opener.
The lineup for Maradona’s fortune includes Rocío Oliva, committed to him for six years before separating in 2018. He wants “financial compensation,” says prominent Argentine attorney Ana Rosenfeld.
The hero’s five confirmed children, including Diego Jr., 34, born to Italian model Cristiana Sinagra and kept a secret for 29 years, Dalma, 33, Gianinna, 31, Jana, 24, and Diego Fernando, seven, they are also entitled to part of your fortune. And Miss Rosenfeld revealed that there could be claims of all of Maradona’s alleged offspring.
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Among them are Santiago Lara and Magali Gil, 23, as well as three others born to two different mothers in Cuba, where they received treatment for drug problems.
As for whether Santiago’s exhumation request could be granted, family law expert Ms. Rosenfeld said the country had seen “other cases where it was necessary to exhume a body to verify DNA.”
Experts say that the inheritance of the 1986 World Cup winner will generate millions over the next few years in image rights, memorabilia, and through lucrative investments the star made around the world.
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As the quest to track his assets begins, it also emerges that some of Maradona’s wealth may go to the Italian government on a disputed multi-million pound tax bill while playing for Napoli in the 1980s.
The player had fought the bill for decades. But in 2013, a court in Rome ruled that he owed £ 36 million from 1985 to 1990, including interest and penalties.
Angelo Pisano, Maradona’s longtime Italian tax attorney, has questioned the amount of money Maradona actually left behind, claiming the star never paid him and lived off the charity of fans, including eating at restaurants for free.
Pisano said: “I didn’t win much as a player. And he wasn’t interested in the money, a lot of people exploited it. “
And Pisani claimed that Maradona would have finally been acquitted of tax evasion in a court hearing next year, adding: “No criminal, not even a mobster, was treated so badly.”
The man who gained notoriety in England for his 1986 La Mano de Dios goal was found dead in a house he rented on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Maradona was recovering from surgery for a blood clot in the brain and had been released from the hospital on November 11.
His friends say he had not used cocaine for years after decades of abuse. But it is understood that he had replaced the habit with new addictions to alcohol and psychotropic drugs.
And he also had mobility problems, caused by soccer injuries, which left him with difficulty leaving home in his final days.
Its assets are understood to include at least five properties in Buenos Aires. Their garages house cars like a Rolls Royce Ghost and a BMW i8.
He had a long-term contract with sportswear firm Puma and agreements with video game firms Konami and EA Sports allowing them to use his name.
And it is said that he still has various business interests in Italy, investments in Cuba and soccer schools in China.
The man who made millions grew up in poverty, hardly knowing how to read or write, in the shanty town of Villa Fiorito, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
But his life turned into a classic success story from poverty to riches after he made his debut for the top-flight Boca Juniors at just 15 years old, and led Argentina to World Cup glory in 1986. .
After retiring as a player after passing through Barcelona, Napoli and Seville, Maradona coached Argentina before joining the Culiacán-based Mexican team Dorados, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel featured on Netflix’s Narcos series.
Meanwhile, the only main woman in his life who cannot join the inheritance queue is Dalma and Gianinna’s mother, Claudia Villafane, 58, who was married to him for 19 years.
They divorced in 2004.
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