Children of 'RedDuchess' claim disputed $36-million inheritance

The multi-million-euro fortune of Spain's "Red Duchess", which includes an Andalusian palace, has been divided between her three children and her widow after a legal wrangle.

Colorful aristocrat Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo y Maura provoked a final scandal just hours before her death in 2008 at the age of 71, when she married a much younger woman who was her longtime secretary and made out her will to her new spouse.

But a court in Sanlucar de Barrameda, where de Toledo maintained the ancestral palace, ruled that around $36 million left in a foundation be divided between the children and Liliana Maria Dahlmann, the aristocrat's widow.