Luciano Pavarotti $15 million in U.S. assets). Pavarotti drafted two wills before his death: one divided his assets by Italian law, giving half to his second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, and half to his four daughters; the second gave his U.S. holdings to Mantovani. The judge confirmed the compromise by the end of July 2008. However, a Pesaro public prosecutor, Massimo di Patria, investigated allegations that Pavarotti was not of sound mind when he signed the will. Pavarotti's estate has been settled "fairly", a lawyer for Mantovani said in statements after reports of a dispute between her and his three daughters from his
Nicoletta Momigliano Nicoletta Momigliano Nicoletta Momigliano, FSA, is an archaeologist specialising in Minoan Crete and its modern reception. She was born in Milan, Italy, in 1960, where she attended primary and secondary school. She read Classics (Letteratura Classica) at the University of Pisa, where she graduated in 1982. She obtained her MA (1984) from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London (now part of University College London), and her PhD from University College London (1989), under the supervision of John Nicolas Coldstream. From 1990 to 1993 she was a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and a Research