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Diego Maradona's kids, ex-fiancée and the taxman battle for star's Sh10billion fortune

Friends and family carry the casket of soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, at the cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 26, 2020. [Reuters, Agustin Marcarian]

In life, Diego Maradona spent his glittering career surrounded by players trying to get the ball off him.

Now in death, his £75million estate is being tackled by up to 10 children, a former lover and the Italian taxman – all with a share of his millions as their goal.

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