Impostor Stars! Stars whose fortunes were hunted by false heirs

The legendary Soviet and Russian couturier died on April 30, 2023 at the age of 85. The passions surrounding the master’s legacy are only heating up. So a 39-year-old model named Eduard Krivenko asserted his rights.

The man claims that in the last years of his life he was a close friend of Zaitsev and the only one who took care of him, while the designer’s relatives did not pay him due attention.

Křivenko claims that he has documents confirming his right and is going to defend it in court.

However, it soon became clear that the reputation of the self-proclaimed heir is not so clean: bailiffs are looking for Edward in his native Rostov-on-Don. There are 72 fines in the amount of 120 thousand rubles.

The legacy of the actor was a long-term hard fight. In general, the star of Soviet cinema had direct heirs: widow Gitan Leontenko and two daughters from different marriages. One of them, Maria, is disabled – she was born with cerebral palsy. It seemed that after the death of Batalov in 2017, at the age of 89, everything should have been quickly resolved within the framework of the law, but this was not the case. The actor’s relatives became victims of “black real estate agencies”, which turned out not to be hardened criminals, but people from a narrow circle.

Actress Natalya Drozhzhina and her husband Mikhail Tsivin decided to seize Batalov’s property. During the investigation, it turned out that the couple infiltrated the actor’s widow and sick daughter and tricked them into signing documents on the liquidation of the property, and also stole 20 million rubles from the accounts. As a result, justice prevailed – the cunning planners were tried and convicted: Drozhzhina received a suspended sentence, but her husband received five years of real punishment.

The American singer is perhaps among the champions in the number of false heirs. Prince died in April 2016, and immediately a number of people lined up who wanted to snatch a piece of the star’s property. And there was something to share – the artist’s fortune was estimated at 300 million dollars!

As a result, the court of the American state of Minnesota rejected the applications of 29 people (!) who claimed that they could become heirs. Among the fraudsters were also completely obscure personalities, including 39-year-old Carlin Williams, who was serving a prison sentence for illegal possession of firearms. The man claimed to be the son of a musician, but a DNA test quickly put him in the clear.

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