Pavarotti will row - page 2

11-09-2007 11:30

A friend added: "Businesses that were in other family members' names were returned to his name."

The original document was drawn up just last year in New York, where Nicoletta spends much of her time.

Friends also claim the opera legend had also grown closer to his first wife Adua Veroni, with whom their daughters sided after he left her to marry Nicoletta.

Dietician Strata's wife, Franca, claims Nicolette called her in a "panic" six weeks ago after it emerged Pavarotti was close to death.

She allegedly wanted papers relating to the couple's three New York apartments and thought they might be at the Stratas' home, where her husband often stayed.

Franca said: "She couldn't find them anywhere and was very concerned.

"She asked me to look for them in my safe to see if Luciano had left them here by mistake as he was always staying at my house. But they weren't here - who knows where they are?"