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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
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Michael Kellam: "She did a doodle; your turn to change her."
Peter Mitchell: "I'll give you a thousand dollars if you'll do it."
—3 Men and a Baby
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Pavarotti's two wills in agreement
BY MARTA FALCONI ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME — Luciano Pavarotti left half his estate to his second wife and half to his four daughters, including three from his first marriage, an attorney said Tuesday.
In the final months of his yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, Pavaroti made two wills, said attorney Giorgio Bernini, who represents the singer's second wife. One dated June 13 divides up his assets according to Italian law, with half going to his wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, and half to his children.
The second; dated July 29, elaborates on the first and concerns the tenor's U.S. holdings, which he entrusted to Mantovani, Bernini said.
Interest in Pavarott's will has mounted in the days since his Sept. 6 death at age 71 amid reports that his three adult daughters from his
first marriage were squabbling with Mantovani, and that there had been a "crisis" in their marriage.
The reports prompted Pavarotti's three adult daughters to write a letter, which one of them read on television last week, denouncing speculation about "purported bickering, phantasmagoric wealth, last wills and testaments that we don't know anything about."
" Luciano Pavarotti now has his chance to speak out, contrary
The wills were made public this week after Mantovani's lawyers formally requested that they be opened. The Associated Press confirmed the
personal and ugly campaign against his wife."
"Contrary to media reports and rumors, he did not change his will to the detriment of his second wife."
to media reports and rumors, he did not change his will to the detriment of his second wife," Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
TERRI ROBSON Luciano Pavarotti's manager
She called the reports, which quoted friends of the late tenor, "a very
contents of the documents in interviews with Mantovani's lawyer.
Bernini said that according to the June 13 will, half of Pavarotti's estate will go to Mantovani, and half will go
to the daughters, each of whom get an equal, one-quarter share.
"The Maestro's concern has always been not to treat his daughters differently." Bernini said.
Two of Pavarotti's friends will get $693,350 each "for their affection and
loyal assistance," Bernini said in a telephone interview, quoting from the will. Italian news reports have identified the two as Pavarotti's assistant, Edwin Tinoco and his companion Veronica Zeggio.
The lawyer declined to give details on the overall value of Pavarotti's estate. It also wasn't clear how Pavarotti's commercial interests, including royalties from sales of his music, have been handled.
Italian media reports have valued the estate at some $275 million; Bernini said such figures were exaggerated and that the tenor had no hidden "treasure" as some reports have also suggested.
Bernini said the second testament was essentially an addendum to the first, entrusting to Mantovani the management of three apartments in New York City's Hampshire House on Central Park South.
Filming in the rain
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles gestures during the filming of his movie 'Blindness' in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Tuesday. Meirelles film is an adaptation of Portuguese writer Jose Saramago's acclaimed novel 'Ensayo Sobre la Cegura' or 'Essay about Blindness'.
ODD NEWS Neighborhood gets fresh on the SLUT trollev
SEATTLE — Officially, it's the South Lake Union Streetcar. But in the neighborhood where the new line runs, it's called the South Lake Union Trolley — or, the SLUT.
At Kapow! Coffee, a shop in the old Cascade neighborhood, 100
T-shirts bearing the words "Ride the SLUT" sold out in days, and another 100 are on order.
"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista.
Some claim — incorrectly, according to representatives of Vulcan Inc., the company that is developing the area — that South Lake Union Trolley was the original name and that it was changed
when officials belatedly realized the acronym.
The $50.5 million project should be completed with streetcars running in December. Underlying the lighthearted opposition, however, is resentment over changes in the old working-class neighborhood.
"There was a meeting with representatives from the city several years ago," Johnson recalled.
do for you? Most people raised their hands and said, 'Affordable housing,' he said. "Then the people from the city huddled together — 'whisper, whisper, whisper,' — and they said, 'How about a trolley?'
"They asked us, 'What we could
With the streetcar, said Don Clifton, a Cascade resident, "We learned how fun it is to change the name of things."
Associated Press
September is Hispanic Heritage Month. There are dozens of events scheduled, including a Wescoe Beach party and a formal banquet. Check everything out on the Web site of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, www.oma.ku.edu.
on campus
Nancy Thellman, Ron Schneider and Hilary Brown will present the university forum "Factories on the Flood Plain" at noon at the ECM Center.
The Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair will start at noon on Level 5 in the Kansas Union.
Stuart Day will present the seminar "It's My (National) Stage Too: Mexican Writers as Public Intellectuals" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Former U.S. Senator and Lt. Governor Sheila Frahm will present the seminar "Women in Politics" at 4 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
David A. Nichols, author of "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution," will hold a talk and book signing at 7 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
COLLAPSE IN LIBRARY Man complains of chest pains, taken to hospital
Paramedics were called to Anschutz Library at about 4 p.m. Tuesday after a man collapsed. Witnesses said the man complained of chest pains and couldn't feel his right arm. The man was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by ambulance. Paramedics said the man's condition didn't appear to be life threatening.
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