Maradona, five recognized children, several more to be recognized and a fortune difficult to calculate

Not by his own wish, Maradona occupied a lot of space in the media for his troubled personal life.

A marriage, several couples and many lovers have shaped the sentimental panorama of the Argentine star who died last Wednesday at the age of 60.

With all of them he met passion and with all of them he ended badly, so badly that he even went to court.

Some accused him of violent, he of taking their money.

He had many children. How many?

That is quite a mystery.

He legally recognized five, but was related to up to nine, although there are those who assure that there are actually 11. When the farewell of one of the best soccer players in history is over, the fight for his legacy will begin, so much material as sentimental.

And in the immediate panorama another question: What heritage does it leave behind?

Whether the war between his heirs is a little or a lot is guaranteed, there are clues that it will happen.

The last and most significant: Maradona did not manage to reunite all his children for the first time on his last birthday as he would have liked, a desire that was increased in the last stage of his life in which he tried to repair the damage of the past.

Inside the playing field, Diego Armando Maradona became the best soccer player in the history of Argentina.

Outside, the kid born in the humble Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Fiorito leaves after his death a biography full of excesses.

The lawyer for soccer player Matías Morla, one of the people who has been closest to Maradona in his last days, revealed this desire: to reunite his five recognized children Dalma and Gianinna, Diego Junior, Jana and Diego Fernando.

Maradona has six other children who are processing filiation in the courts: four in Cuba (Javielito, Lu, Johanna and Harold, all between 19 and 21 years old), plus Santiago Lara, 19, and Magalí Gil, from La Plata. 24. “Diego is very respectful of the right to identity, with the issue of letting them know if he is a son or not.

I think by now the sequence of who his children are is closed.

If Justice recognizes a new son, it would be necessary to see what link forms, ”his lawyer maintained days before his unexpected death.

The fifth of the eight children of doña Tota and don Diego married Claudia Villafañe in 1989 with 1,300 guests - among them, the then president of Argentina, Carlos Menem, and the Italian magnate Silvio Berlusconi - at Luna Park .

The couple agreed when they had already had two daughters - Dalma Nerea, born in 1987, and Giannina, in 1989 - and remained formally united until 2003, when they divorced and began a long list of fights in court, with accusations crusades of appropriation of goods, irregularities in the distribution and waste.

Dalma is an actress and is married to rugby player Ariel Caldarelli.

Giannina opted for fashion, with the creation of the Catarsis clothing line, and made Maradona a grandfather for the first time in 2009 when she gave birth to Benjamín Agüero.

Her marriage to soccer player Kun Agüero broke up in 2012.

The two sisters were for years the only daughters recognized by the Argentine star, but in 1995 he publicly accepted the paternity of Diego Jr, the first-born.

The young man, the result of his relationship with the Italian Cristiana Sinagra during his time at Naples, was born in 1986, the year his father led the Argentina World Cup champion in Mexico.

The fourth of his daughters was Jana, born in 1995 from the affair that Pelusa had with Valeria Sabalain.

Although he did not recognize her until his daughter reached the age of majority and appeared before him in a gym, their relationship became very close from last year and the two lived together during the covid-19 pandemic.

The rapprochement with Jana took place after Giannina made sure in 2019 that her father was dying.

“He is not dying because his body decides it, they are killing him from the inside without him being able to realize it.

I do not believe in the parameter of normality, but that is very far from the reality that he deserves.

Pray, please, ”he said.

His daughter's statements angered Maradona, who published a video in which he claimed to be “more alive than ever” and announced that he would not leave anything as an inheritance to his children, but would rather donate all his assets to charity.

The fifth of the sons recognized by the Argentine idol is Diego Fernando.

His mother, Verónica Ojeda, was in a relationship with Maradona for a decade, but he left her in 2013, when Ojeda was pregnant.

After the breakup, the player sued his ex-partner for displaying photos of the baby on social media.

His last courtship was with Rocío Oliva, between 2013 and 2019, years in which Maradona lived between the United Arab Emirates, Mexico and Argentina to work as a coach.

As with his previous partners, the estrangement was accompanied by lawsuits.

Last year, Maradona's lawyer Marcelo Morla revealed that the soccer player had three other children in Cuba and hinted at the existence of a fourth.

They would have been born between 2000 and 2005, when he moved his residence to the Caribbean island to cure himself of his addictions after having been on the verge of death in January 2000. According to local media, the list of offspring could be extended to 11.

The fortune that his descendants will inherit is difficult to calculate because he had millionaire income but also excessive expenses.

In 2014, it was estimated at about $ 75 million (about € 63 million).

Its assets include five homes distributed between Buenos Aires and its periphery and several luxury cars.

There are also eccentricities such as a ring of diamonds valued at 300,000 euros that he acquired in Belarus and used as an amulet on the bench of Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata, and an amphibious truck that can navigate.

When his life ended on Wednesday, Maradona did not have any of his children with him.

Only the company of two of his friends, those with whom he formed his other family.