http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Boxer+Gatti+widow+awarded+denied/2187736/story.html Boxer Gatti's widow awarded $40,000, denied the dog Montreal GazetteNovember 5, 2009 9:02 AM Story Photos ( 3 ) <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> showTab("text/html"); </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> function resizeImage() { var imgBox = document.getElementById('imageBox'); var photo = document.getElementById('storyphoto'); if (imgBox != null && photo != null) { if(photo.width >= 460) { imgBox.className = 'imagesize460'; } else { if(photo.width >= 300) { imgBox.className = 'imagesize310'; } else { imgBox.className = 'imageboxpadding'; } imgBox.style.width = photo.width + 'px'; } } } function getStoryFontSize() { var storyfontsize = getCookie('storyfontsize'); var storyfontimage = getCookie('storyfontimage'); // use cookied value, if present if (storyfontsize != null) { setClass('story_content',storyfontsize); if (storyfontimage != null) { setClass('fontsizecontainer',storyfontimage); } } else // default it to para14 if no cookie { setClass('story_content','para14'); setClass('fontsizecontainer','size02'); } } function setStoryFontSize(storyfontsize,storyfontimage) { setClass('story_content',storyfontsize); setClass('fontsizecontainer',storyfontimage); setCookie('storyfontsize', storyfontsize, '365', '/', '', ''); setCookie('storyfontimage', storyfontimage, '365', '/', '', ''); } function setCookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure ) { // set time var today = new Date(); today.setTime( today.getTime() ); if ( expires ) { expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24; //days } var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) ); document.cookie = name + "=" + escape( value ) + ( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) + ( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) + ( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) + ( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" ); } function getCookie( check_name ) { // split this cookie up into name/value pairs var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' ); var a_temp_cookie = ''; var cookie_name = ''; var cookie_value = ''; var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ ) { // split apart each name=value pair a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies.split( '=' ); // and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // if the extracted name matches passed check_name if ( cookie_name == check_name ) { b_cookie_found = true; // we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is): if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 ) { cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') ); } // note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned return cookie_value; break; } a_temp_cookie = null; cookie_name = ''; } if ( !b_cookie_found ) { return null; } } </SCRIPT> More Images » Amanda Rodrigues, widow of late boxer Arturo Gatti, leaves the Palais du Justice in Montreal on Nov. 2, 2009, after battling over Gatti's will. Photograph by: Dave Sidaway, The Gazette MONTREAL — Amanda Rodrigues, widow of ex-world boxing champ Arturo Gatti, has lost her bid at $150,000 of his estate — and the dog. Instead, Superior Court Justice Paul Chaput on Thursday awarded her $30,000 to pay her legal fees, $10,000 for the couple's young son and access to the couple's Montreal condo to gather her belongings. The decision comes in the preliminary round of what should be a lengthy legal battle pitting the widow against Gatti's blood relatives. The winner will get an estate worth at least $6 million, left after Gatti's mysterious death at a Brazilian resort on July 11. Earlier this week, Rodrigues, 23, didn't utter a word as lawyers for both sides traded verbal punches over her request for an immediate support payment of $150,000 plus custody of the dog. Initially jailed on suspicion of her husband's murder in Brazil, Rodrigues was released in late July, after Brazilian authorities reclassified the boxer's death a suicide. Gatti's blood relatives contend a 2007 New Jersey will should give the family control over his estate. The widow argues a Quebec will notarized about three weeks before Gatti's death gives her control over everything. © Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
Eh....no, it wouldn't. Although 40K is a nice chunk of cash, Brazil is only slightly less expensive than US. And Rio is on par with NYC, as far as prices are concerned.
At least she doesn't have to pay to feed the dog. Hopefully Gatti didn't leave it to the Hiltons. ray:
Not trying to kill your hopes, but I find it pretty unlikely that Gatti had made a will which would donate his money to fightbeat members
Andrew is correct, this is only a preliminary judgement thus far. It is going to be very hard for the court not to give the lady and baby the bulk of his estate.
I'm seriously rooting for her to win it. I believed her story about how his family wasn't really around until he passed so they could get his money. Of course it could be bull, but somehow I just believe her. I'm rooting for her. Maybe we should do a prediction contest to see who wins.
The guy was an alcoholic, he beat her up in public, decked her and she scraped the hide off of her chin, and when a security guard intervened (possibly saving her life), Gatti decked him as well. It was not until the crowd converged upon this drunken lunatic (one person actually threw a bicycle at Arturo) that he backed off and left. He knew the gal and baby were leaving him, and the newspapers would blow his image, and he was drunk as well as high on you know what, and the guy hung himself in his inebriated state. Great warrior in the ring, a creep outside of it.
No..first of all, the woman beater is dead. Secondly, why don't you try it? December 3rd, televised on Versus, Westside Tennis Club, sister.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the second autopsy by Doctor Michael Baden concluded that Gatti was killed by asphyxiation possibly self induced. Baden is a filthy whore and he is a corrupt scientist. That being said, he usually gives his employers(in this case the Gatti family) what they want to hear. In this case, he didn't. It is actually quite possible that we all bet on the wrong horse here. I think Gatti's third world little whore, is exactly that, but being a whore and murderer are entirely different in some cases. We are talking about a guy who sustained massive head trauma publically. Addtionally, he took as much in sparring over 20 years. He was a drunk and clearly had judgment control issues. It is possible he killed himself on a whim. Not to sound fucked up, but maybe this was for the best. I am not happy the guy died and it is sad, but I think his fate would have been worse much like Jerry Quarry's(and Mike Quarry). Gatti probably would not be speaking in 5 years and would be reduced to infanthood in 10 or less.
