HE will for ever be remembered because the footie genius whose outrageous Hand of God con trick knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup.
However Diego Maradona was an excellent greater cheat off the pitch, siring at the very least six alleged love youngsters with a string of glamorous girls.
Maradona with ex-wife Claudia and daughters Dalma and Giannina in 2008Credit score: Getty Photographs – Getty
With the youngsters he’s recognized to have had it makes sufficient for a soccer staff. And the whole brood is now locked in a Hand of Wad battle for his secret £37million fortune after he died of a coronary heart assault at 60 final month — with out leaving a will.
5 acknowledged youngsters, six or seven extra who declare to be Maradona’s, plus 4 of his 5 sisters and at the very least three ex-lovers are all battling for a reduce.
As a result of regardless of his chaotic drink and drug-fuelled life, Maradona amassed fortunes in Switzerland, Dubai and Buenos Aires, plus property throughout the globe.
The World Cup of will contests took a brand new twist yesterday as a precious secret stash of memorabilia was unearthed, together with a Harry Kane shirt and a 3.5-tonne amphibious automobile.
Authorized groups representing relations are anticipated to battle for months, if not years, after Maradona scrapped a will he signed in 2012.
Argentine regulation bans his youngsters from being disinherited and requires all to be given equal shares, permitting solely a fifth of an property to be redistributed.
However that infuriated his eldest daughters Dalma, 33, and 31-year-old Giannina by his ex-wife Claudia, who had been as soon as chief beneficiaries however now face far smaller shares.
And since Maradona died, actress Dalma has turned her hearth on his lawyer Matias Morla, who is alleged to have urged him to scrap his will.
Maradona had his eldest little one Diego with Italian magnificence Cristiana SinagraCredit score: Rex Options
Jana had one other daughter, Jana, 25, with girlfriend Valeria Sabalain in Buenos Aires within the Nineteen Nineties
Jana works as an underwear mannequinCredit score: Instagram @eufloriaok
Dalma accused Morla of screening greater than 200 of her calls she made pleading for particulars of her father’s property in current days.
In a single trade she wrote on Instagram: “Choose up on the telephone . . . I’ll by no means cease. Hopefully justice can be executed, and I swear to you that I gained’t cease till that occurs. But when not, your condemnation can be social . . . you present up, coward.
“In case you say you might be such a good friend, cease exposing him, filthy rat.”
Mum-of-one Giannina — ex-wife of Argentina and Manchester Metropolis ace Sergio Aguero — can be demanding a much bigger share.
However the pair weren’t at all times shut, with Maradona publicly calling for Giannina to be jailed three years in the past, claiming his daughters and ex-wife stole £3.4million from him.
As not too long ago as June this yr there have been extra clashes because the sisters stated they had been ready to “go to courtroom” to cease their father consuming himself to loss of life.
Dalma and Giannina had been the primary of 5 youngsters recognised by the previous Barcelona star.
However he later acknowledged his eldest little one, footballer Diego Sinagra, 34, born throughout a fling with Italian magnificence Cristiana Sinagra when he performed for Napoli within the Nineteen Eighties.
He had another daughter, Jana, 25, with girlfriend Valeria Sabalain in Buenos Aires within the Nineteen Nineties.
And Verónica Ojeda, who was Maradona’s associate for nearly a decade, has one other little Diego, now seven, by the footballer.
Maradona gained the World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and have become infamous for his ‘Hand of God’ aim in opposition to England within the quarter ultimateCredit score: Rex Options
Maradona additionally had one other son referred to as Diego, now seven, together with his associate Veronica OjedaCredit score: instagram.com/maradona
Paternity claims that haven’t been accepted embrace one by 19-year-old Argentinian Santiago Lara, whose lawyer demanded that Maradona’s body be dug up for DNA tests less than a day after he was buried.
{The teenager}, who claims he’s Maradona’s sixth little one, first launched his paternity battle 4 years in the past.
His mum, waitress Natalia Garat, died aged 23 from lung most cancers in 2006 after an alleged seven-year on-off fling with Maradona.
One other lady claiming paternity is Italian mum-of-one Magali Gil, who was given up for adoption then reunited together with her organic mom, who she says instructed her tearfully that she was the results of a 1995 fling with the soccer star.
She stated earlier this yr, after submitting a lawsuit and demanding a DNA take a look at: “Diego didn’t find out about me. My mom by no means instructed him she was pregnant.”
Authorized sources counsel the icon was additionally about to just accept he was the daddy of three youngsters born whereas he was detoxing in Cuba between 2000 and 2005.
Mum Adonay Fruto claims twins Joana and Lu had been Maradona’s, and two extra Cuban youngsters named solely as Javielito and Harold have additionally had claims staked.
Courtroom papers lodged in Buenos Aires instructed a twelfth little one had additionally been named, with presumably extra to comply with, sources stated. 4 of Maradona’s 5 sisters are additionally understood to have demanded a reduce.
Paternity claims that haven’t been accepted embrace one by 19-year-old Argentinian Santiago Lara
One other lady claiming paternity is Italian mum-of-one Magali Gil, who was given up for adoption then reunited together with her organic mom,Credit score: Intrusos
Maradona’s myriad accounts throughout the globe present wealth amassed from advert offers with large manufacturers together with Puma, Coca-Cola, Hublot watches and Konami video video games.
Different valuables embrace jewelry and property and investments in nations the place he performed and coached, together with Argentina, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Belarus and Mexico.
Maradona died a shadow of his swaggering outdated self in a £12,000-a-month home rented by his daughter Jana on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Yesterday sources stated his advanced property is prone to be divided into as many as 12 components by an “administrator” appointed by an Argentinian choose.
A supply instructed The Solar: “With no will, youngsters near Maradona, and a few he has by no means met, will all have the ability to declare an equal share of his fortune. That’s clearly unacceptable to youngsters who had been a part of his life for years and really feel they’ve been cheated.”
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