Fight Over National Enquirer Founder's $418M Fortune
National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope Jr. led a hell of a life and was responsible for the paper’s pre-celeb glory years. (Pope’s only instructions to his reporters: “Never say anything about the CIA, never say anything about the Mafia, and never knock Sofia Loren.”)
In death, his $418 million fortune is causing a scandal of its own. Widow Lois Pope and son Paul Pope are fighting a messy courtroom battle over the money, filled with the problems that only the truly rich have to deal with:
He claims she promised to get him a $5 million house and a Bentley, and reneged.
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