An Insatiable Lust for Life ; Insatiable with a Voice of Pure Gold, His Colossal Ego Was Matched Only by an Unquenchable Appetite for Women. But Could Pavarotti's Multi-Million Fortune Spark the Mother of All Catfights Between His Two Wives?

Daily Mail › September 07, 2007

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AN INSATIABLE LUCIANO PAVAROTTI lay in state at Modena Cathedral last night as hundreds of fans queued to file past his body after he lost his long battle against cancer, aged 71. But while the tributes flowed ahead of tomorrow's funeral, the question was: what will happen to the opera legend's multi-million fortune? Many expect fireworks over the legacy between the star's bitter ex-wife Adua and his second wife, Nicoletta, 35 years his junior.

Friends and colleagues remembered a 'musical colossus' with 'a voice of pure gold'. Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, who performed with Pavarotti in the Three Tenors concerts for more than ten years, led the tributes. Domingo said: 'I always admired the God- given glory of his voice.' Carreras said: 'We have to remember him as the great artist that he was, a man with such a wonderful charismatic personality ... and a great poker player.' S

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An Insatiable Lust for Life ; Insatiable with a Voice of Pure Gold, His Colossal Ego Was Matched Only by an Unquenchable Appetite for Women. But Could Pavarotti's Multi-Million Fortune Spark the Mother of All Catfights Between His Two Wives?

SIX-FEET tall, weighing 25 stones, by nature a clown, a sadist, venal, petulant, often a pain in the backside to his co-stars, but also charismatic and incomparable, Luciano Pavarotti, who died yesterday, was one of the most recognisable people on Earth and not only because he was easy to spot.

No other tenor since Enrico Caruso conquered the opera world with such seismic force. No other opera star made a greater fortune or was more obsessed with finding new ways of consolidating it.

'I don't sing for legend, I sing for lira,' he declared defiantly when critics accused him of selling his talent short.

'Did Caruso ever m...

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