The settlement of Luciano Pavarotti's €350 million estate is expected to be disputed by his family, after it emerged that the opera star changed his will only weeks before his death.
However it appears that rather than passing the majority over to his wife Pavarotti named his three daughters as main beneficiaries.
The Dail Mail quotes friends as saying that as the tenor's health deteriorated, his relationship with his second wife Nicoletta Mantovani, 37, fell apart.
He is understood to have become close again to his first wife of 36 years, Adua Veroni, although the couple did not speak for several years following their acrimonious divorce in 2000.
The Daily Mail reports that the changes were in favour of his three daughters from the first marriage - Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana - who had sided with their mother after the split but recently had a rapprochement with their ailing father.
Pavarotti and Nicoletta had a four-year-old daughter, Alice.
