Enrico Caruso's body lay in a glass-topped coffin in Naples for years, and his estate was split by a Naples decree that two New Jersey courts reopened

Enrico Caruso died at 48 in Naples. Wikipedia reports that his embalmed body was displayed for several years in an open sarcophagus under glass at the Del Pianto cemetery, which his family insisted on and his widow, Dorothy, opposed. In 1929, after appealing to the Italian government, she had it covered and the tomb locked. A second independent source for the display was not retrieved^†. His daughter Gloria was born in 1919, and he had two sons, Rodolfo and Enrico Jr., and a brother, Giovanni. A 21 October 1921 deliberation of the Naples tribunal gave half the estate to Gloria plus a special sum of 500,000 lire. The other half was split among Dorothy, Rodolfo, Enrico Jr. and Giovanni. Royalties from the Victor Talking Machine Company, 10 percent per the decree, were shared by the same quotas. On 14 March 1928 the New Jersey Court of Chancery held the Naples decree could not bind Gloria's interest in New Jersey property, because a minor cannot consent to give up a share. It said New Jersey law gives a widow one third and a daughter two thirds. On 3 May 1935 the court disallowed $10,110.17 in federal income tax charged to Gloria's share.