Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyesbetter known as Mario MorenoHe became famous through his famous character “Cantinflas”, which made him one of the icons of the world Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. 29 years have passed since her death, but the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the wealth of the actor who was under appreciated $68 and $70 million.
Mario Moreno’s net worth has been estimated at $70 million.
According to information from the New York Times, the interpreter owned 5 houses, a chain of beauty salons, a private art collection, a private plane, a ranch of more than 400 hectares, as well as cars and apartments in Acapulco. He also diversified his fortune into various business ventures including 2 film companies, office buildings and a 2,000 acre bull ranch. Added to this were the film rights to the 39 films he made.
When Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova, the only son of “Cantinflas”, wanted to claim the money from his father’s inheritance, he found an almost empty bank account and none of the bank managers could explain to him what had happened.
Aside from cash, Moreno had houses, businesses, cars, a private plane, apartments, and fields.
In the midst of discussing where the money was, Ivanova faced a legal battle with one of her cousins, who has claimed the actor gave him some of his fortune. On the other hand, Eduardo Moreno Laparade, Mario Moreno’s nephew, started a legal battle to acquire the film rights to the 39 films of ‘2Cantinflas’, as he claimed that those rights had been transferred to her a month before the comedian’s death.
There were only 13,000 new Mexican pesos left
In 2014, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that Eduardo Moreno Laparade was the “successor in film rights” to “Cantinflas.” Three years later, in 2017, Mario Moreno’s only son died of a sudden heart attack after losing the legal battle against his cousin.
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Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova was adopted, and much has been said that his cocaine addiction is linked to the mismanagement of his father’s inheritance, although Moreno Ivanova has always blamed the banks. “My father had accounts in Spain, the Cayman Islands, New York and Mexico, and when he died I went to the banks to notify them of the death, freeze them and make inventories of the inheritance, but the balance of Banamex, where I knew it was $68 or $70 million, we only found 13,000 new pesos,” he told El Universal newspaper in 2003.