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A 4-year-old stray cat that was rescued from the streets of Rome has inherited a $13 million fortune from [his] owner, the wealthy widow of an Italian property tycoon.
Maria Assunta left the fortune to her beloved kitty, Tommaso, when she died two weeks ago at the age of 94. The feline’s new-found riches include cash, as well as properties in Rome, Milan and land in Calabria.
As her health began to fail two years ago, Assunta, who had no children, began to seek out a way to see that Tommaso was properly cared for after she died. In November 2009, she bequeathed her entire estate to the alley cat that she’d rescued.
Initially, Assunta had instructed her attorneys to “identify an animal welfare association or group to which to leave the estate and the commitment of looking after Tommaso,” according to the Daily Telegraph.
Unable to find a satisfactory association to see to it that Tommaso was loved and cared for, Assunta decided to leave all her money to the cat via her nurse, Stefania, who cared for her until her dying day.
