Hmmm, glamorous?
Posted on 12/21/2016 8:53:55 AM PST by tekrat
RESSED in a floppy hat, with his wiry grey hair poking out of the side, Marcel Amphoux gave a wide grin to the camera, showing his missing teeth.
In his neatly tied claret cravat, with his attractive younger bride on his arm, the affectionately nicknamed “Hermit of the Alps” had never looked so smart or so proud.
But to Marcel’s friends in the small French village of Puy-Saint-Pierre, the 67-year-old’s marriage to this glamorous blonde, 25 years his junior, would be his undoing.
They were convinced that property agent Sandrine Devillard was a calculating gold-digger, who connived to marry the old peasant farmer for his valuable plot of land in the Alps.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
No she is due nothing. You didn’t read the whole story.
He may have married her for her looks. I don’t see that as a more noble motive than marrying for money.
Unless she murdered him, why wouldn’t she get the estate?
In his neatly tied claret cravat, with his attractive younger bride on his arm, the affectionately nicknamed “Hermit of the Alps” had never looked so smart or so proud.
Attractive???
Obviously...Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Because he made a will. Read the whole story
The article says they found a will that he prepared before his death which didn’t give her a penny.
Did you read the story? Sandrine is getting nothing. He had a hand written will on the back of an envelope that the courts have ruled valid, leaving everything to a cousin and the huts to their current tenants and nothing to his bride who refused to live with him.
Marcel Amphoux died in November last year after a car, being driven by his wife's friend, plummeted off a mountain in heavy mist.
Do we know where Marcel and his wife's friend were supposed to be going when the accident happened?
OK I read to the end. You are right they are taking this will written on the back of an envelope as real. I hope they don’t do this in America, you could get people with dementia writing anything on envelopes.
Every man has the right to spend his money as he sees fit. And to leave it to whomever he wishes.
It’s usually old women who have issue with it.
Many States have a rule where the spouse can take against the estate no matter what the will says...unless there is a prenup in place, etc.
Or as a comparison. She may not be a classic beauty, but compared to him she is a goddess.
Granted that. But I never compare a womans looks to mine (or lack thereof).
The Daily Mail reported that the will he wrote on the back of an envelope disinheriting her is legal and she’s out in the cold. No money.
It does seem suspicious as to how the farmer died in the accident but both passengers were all right.
You are correct, I love a happy ending ; )
“I hope they don’t do this in America, you could get people with dementia writing anything on envelopes.”
I can’t speak for every state, but in Georgia, a will must be signed and certified. Any change or codicil must be also be signed and on file at the court house. I have to say I really don’t know the law if a signed (but uncertified) will on an envelope would carry any weight. If there were credible witnesses that didn’t stand to benefit, then maybe there’d be a case.
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