FORTUNE LOST
DANCER GETS NOTHING ELDERLY WIDOW'S WILL BEQUESTS TOTALLING £320,000 By a recent decision of the Monaco Appeal Court a young Chilean dancer, Senor Delia Cuadra, loses a fortune of £320.000 left to him under tho will ot Mine. Marie Leroy, a wealthy widow, who died in 1932. Tho Court ruled that the entire estate is to go to the Belgian relatives of Mmo. Leroy and Senor Delia Cuadra gets nothing at all. This decision, which marks the end of protracted litigation over the will, reverses tho decision of the Monaco Tribunal last year, which declared the will to bo valid and cancelled an order for sequestration. Senor Delia Cuadra must thus abandon the magnificont blue and white Riviera villa, known as the Villa 1 lour de Lys, which was included in the estate. !• J Mmo. Leroy, a septuagenarian, died in October, 1932. The parties contesting her bequest of her fortune to the Chilean declared that her infatuation made her mentally incapable, and that the Chilean used unduo influence. During tlie Hearing of tho appeal Maitre Jaspar, for tho Belgian relatives, made a bitter attack upon Senor Delia Cuadra, contending that he had no right to tho Leroy fortune, because it was a foolish bequest mado in a moment of weakness. "You cannot toll me," Maitre Jaspar contended in court, "that a 70-year-old woman who would do such things as she did, was sane. Maitre Masse, for . Senor Delia Cuadra, retorted that his client was a model young man, of whom any mother might be proud. The gay life ot Riviera pleasure-seekers was laid bare in all its gilded hollowness during tho course of the hearings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 36 (Supplement)
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