The most incredible cases of inheritance

There are several types of rich people: some worked tirelessly all their lives, others had only one idea in a million that helped them fly to the top, others were born into rich families and never worked a single day in their lives, others simply bought a lottery ticket. for a couple of bucks and now they don’t know where to spend the millions that have fallen on their heads.

Today we will talk about inheritances and those impressive fortunes that came as a real surprise to many. Most often, an inheritance is left to reimburse relatives for funeral expenses, rituals, etc., but sometimes the amount is a little more. Several million dollars more.

Seventeen-year-old waitress Sarah Woods in her town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1992 became friends with Bill Cruxton, who often visited the cafe where she worked as a waitress. He was a widower and she lost her father at the age of 10, which brought them closer together. Woods often helped the old man around the house, doing minor cleaning and so on. Cruxton, in turn, said that he imagined his children exactly like Sarah. He died at the age of 82 from a heart attack. Already in the hospital, just before his death, he indicated Woods’ phone number as a close relative and named her as his heir. So she suddenly had $500,000, a house and two cars. Woods spent the money on the right cause, on her studies.

The Portuguese aristocrat Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara was a wealthy, childless bachelor. He died of natural causes at the age of 42. And on the day of his death, seventeen unsuspecting Portuguese people received a call and were informed that they had become the heirs of one of the richest men in Portugal. Louis randomly selected all these people from a telephone directory 13 years before his death. In addition to 25,000 euros, he bequeathed a 12-room apartment, a house and a car. All this was divided among seventeen strangers.

Solt and Geza Peladi lived in a cave a few kilometers from Budapest and scoured the city in search of more or less valuable garbage, so that they could later sell it for pennies. Their grandmother lost them a long time ago and could not find them for a long time. After her death, lawyers contacted social services to find the two lost brothers and report that they were now six-and-a-half million richer. It's a miracle that the lawyers managed to find them because their birth mother abandoned them when they were just one year old.

Sergei knew his uncle from Germany very poorly. He saw him only once and did not expect anything. After the news that he became the heir to almost a billion euros, no one expected Sergei to react this way. Sergei doesn’t see any sense in this money. As he says: “Another headache.” The entire city does not allow him passage, and he has to drive to work in a colleague’s car. The almost billionaire earns only 150 euros a month, he studies part-time at the Faculty of Journalism and works as a DJ on a local radio.

An accountant from New York spent his childhood watching his parents work 100 hours a week in the bakery owned by his uncles, Henry and Joe. They were paid with leftover bread and cookies, and his whole life was a struggle until he was 36. It was at this age that he learned that his uncles were much more successful than he could have imagined, because he was the one who inherited $6 million from them . His parents refused this money when their son suggested that they take away the inheritance that they rightfully deserved. Now Mort continues to write his memoirs and is in no hurry to spend a lot of money.

Once the richest woman in Asia, Nina Wang, having learned that she had cancer, rewrote her will, thereby making Tony Chan, a feng shui master, happy. He promised that a special practice would help her live forever, if, of course, she did not forget to mention him in her will. Before this, all the money was intended for her family and a small part was supposed to go to charity. When the will was announced, the relatives immediately filed a lawsuit, and the court decided the case in favor of the original contents. Chan was arrested for fraud and forgery.

It took the simple Argentine maid nine years of difficult legal proceedings and even the exhumation of her body for DNA comparison to confirm her relationship with Baron Rufino Otero. Paolo always guessed that her father was of noble blood, and her mother took this secret to the grave.

Josh saw his grandfather only a few times, but this did not stop him from becoming the sole heir to his grandfather's incredible fortune. Samuel (Josh's grandfather) never approved of his daughter's marriage for religious reasons, but he doted on his grandson. He left 80 acres of farmland and another 36 acres of land as a private island. The will also spoke of precious stones hidden somewhere on the island “in a jar.” Josh's mother and Samuel's daughter says she always played "treasure island" with her father as a child.

Tomas Martinez, 67, lived on the street in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia. One day, the police approached him as he slept on a bench to tell him that his late wife, from whom he had divorced several years earlier, had left him $6 million. Martinez decided they wanted to arrest him for drug possession, vagrancy or alcoholism, and ran away. Local newspapers trumpeted about him, tried to find him and made fun of the newly minted millionaire: “A local millionaire ran away from his inheritance...” The surprising thing is that the whereabouts of the millionaire are still unknown.

Charles Vince Millar was a successful Canadian lawyer and businessman who loved to play pranks on greedy people. At the time of his death, he had no relatives or children left, so the text of the will was full of unusual requests. The strangest and most unusual one obliged the lawyer to transfer part of the capital into cash 10 years after his death and give all the money to the mother with many children. This period was called the “stork race”, and legal proceedings broke out at the end. After careful verification, 4 women divided the money among themselves, and each received $750,000. They had 9 children each.