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A nurse who cared for Diego Maradona admitted today that she lied about giving the soccer legend a checkup the day he died of a heart attack.
The reveal has added to a growing number of puzzles surrounding the Argentine ace’s final hours, including claims that his life could be saved.
There are more claims that health chiefs feared the star might have been killed and compared his death to a famous Argentine mystery.
And we can reveal that Maradona’s inheritance will become the center of a major legal battle involving his children, alleged illegitimate children, a former lover, and even the Italian government.
Maradona died, aged 60, at his home in San Andrés, near Buenos Aires, on Wednesday morning.
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A team of nurses was caring for him after he underwent surgery earlier this month for a blood clot in his brain.
In a report to her employer, the private medical firm Medidom, the nurse who had been on duty there overnight said at 6.30am that she examined Maradona, who was breathing normally.
The nurse who replaced him that morning said she heard Maradona use the bathroom around 7:30 a.m., but did not enter the soccer star’s room.
And he claimed that he tried to check Maradona’s vital signs at 9.20 a.m., but the star had refused.
But that report is now at the center of controversy after the nurse told investigators that she did not enter Maradona’s room that morning. And she is said to have claimed she was “made to lie” for the report.
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Investigators said: “What the witness added … is that she was forced to write in a report for Medidom … that she had tried to monitor Maradona’s vital signs when the reality is that she let him rest.”
Medidom has not responded to the claims.
The nurse also said she saw Maradona around noon, when he was dead or near death, and gave him a heart massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
It was also reported yesterday that the health chiefs told the first doctors to arrive at Maradona’s house: “Call the prosecutors and the police. We don’t want another case of García Belsunce. “
They were reportedly referring to the unsolved murder of Argentine sociologist María Marta, whose death was initially treated as an accident when her body was found in a bathroom.
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That mystery is now the subject of Netflix’s smash hit Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?
State prosecutors are now analyzing CCTV footage of the farm where Maradona lived and the mobile phones of the nurses who treated him in the hours leading up to his death.
They have already said that nothing points to any criminality and insist that everything so far suggests that the former star of Barcelona, Naples and Boca Juniors died of natural causes.
Initial autopsy results revealed that the recovering cocaine addict and alcoholic had suffered from heart failure leading to a blood clot.
But Maradona’s lawyer, Matías Morla, has claimed that the star had not received any medical check-ups in his last 12 hours.
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He has also questioned a doctor’s decision to allow Maradona to leave the hospital just eight days after his brain surgery.
And he has called for an investigation into the emergency response, claiming that the first ambulance took more than half an hour to reach the star’s home.
Legal sources insist that it arrived in 11 minutes.
Maradona grew up in poverty, barely able to read or write, in the shanty town of Villa Fiorito, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
But his life turned into a classic story from poverty to wealth after he made his debut in Argentina’s top flight at just 15 years old.
Hailed as one of the best, if not the greatest, player of all time, he led Argentina to World Cup glory in 1986 after their “Hand of God” match against England in the quarterfinals.
He went on to manage Argentina before joining Mexico’s second-division Dorados.
His incredible career meant he made millions, but the fight for his fortune has already begun.
Santiago Lara, 19, who claims to be one of Maradona’s illegitimate children, demands that the body of the soccer legend be exhumed so that DNA tests can be carried out.
His waitress mother, Natalia Garat, who allegedly had a seven-year intermittent relationship with Maradona, denied that her son was a gold digger.
But when we asked if he plans to file a financial claim, his attorney refused to deny it. There could be claims from all other alleged illegitimate children of Maradona.
They include Magali Gil, 23, and three others born to two different mothers in Cuba, where Maradona received drug treatment.
His eight confirmed children, which include Diego Jr., 34, Dalma, 33, Gianinna, 31, Jana, 24 and Diego Fernando, seven, will also be entitled to part of the fortune.
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Dalma and Gianinna’s mother, Claudia Villafane, 58, who was married to Maradona for 19 years, has no right to claim. But his former fiancée Rocío Oliva, 29, who split from the legend in 2018 after a six-year relationship, has filed a claim for “financial compensation.”
His lawyer, Ana Rosenfeld, said: “It is sad to think that the day has come when everyone looks at how the inheritance of our beloved Diego will be divided.
“Unfortunately there are people who have a value in life and an added value in their death …
“There are contracts that were signed, such as video games or movies, where there may be image rights at stake and those rights continue to generate money.” Lawyers are now evaluating Maradona’s assets.
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It is believed that he owned at least five properties in Buenos Aires.
His car fleet includes a Rolls Royce Ghost, a BMW i8 and a Jeep Hunta Overcomer, which was awarded to him in his role as honorary president of the Dynamo Brest club of Belarus.
Maradona had agreements with the sports brand Puma and the video game firms Konami and EA Sports. It is said that he had financial interests in Italy, Cuba and China.
And his collection of soccer memorabilia, including many of the honors he earned during his incredible career, could also be worth millions.
But part of Maradona’s inheritance may go to the Italian government to pay a multi-million pound tax bill that he left while playing for Napoli.
The footballer had been fighting the bill, estimated at £ 5.4 million, for decades. And his Italian tax lawyer claimed that the hero would have finally been cleared of tax evasion at a court hearing scheduled for next year.
Angelo Pisani said: “No criminal, not even a mobster, was ever treated so badly. Maradona was not a tax evader or a criminal. He denounced crime in football and in the rest of the world. “
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