MONTREAL (AP) — A civil trial to settle the multimillion-dollar estate of late boxing champion Arturo Gatti is under way in Montreal.
Gatti’s widow, Amanda Rodrigues, and the boxer’s family are embroiled in a bitter dispute over the fortune. The dispute centers on the validity of two wills with different beneficiaries.
Gatti was found dead at the age of 37 in July 2009 at an apartment he and his family had rented in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas.
Brazilian authorities initially said Rodrigues was a prime suspect in the case, but later released her when an autopsy concluded he’d committed suicide.
That report said Gatti hanged himself with a handbag strap from a wooden staircase column in their apartment.
