Pavarotti left three wills, and his daughters challenged the share of his second wife until a 2008 settlement

Luciano Pavarotti had three daughters, Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana, from his 35-year marriage to Adua Veroni. In 2003 he married Nicoletta Mantovani, with whom he had a fourth daughter, Alice. He died of pancreatic cancer at 71. A will dated 13 June 2007 followed Italian inheritance law: half to Mantovani, half split among the four daughters. A second will dated 29 July 2007 put his US holdings, including three apartments in Hampshire House on Central Park South, in a trust managed by Mantovani, and left $693,350 each to two assistants. Italian media estimated the estate at about $275 million; Mantovani's lawyer called that figure exaggerated. The three eldest daughters said they had been shortchanged. In October 2007 a handwritten will from December 2006 surfaced, reported to give the daughters most of the estate. On 30 June 2008 Mantovani's lawyer, Giorgio Bernini, announced an agreement with the three daughters, terms undisclosed, to be confirmed by a judge. No later litigation over the estate has been reported through 2026^†.