Former stray alley cat “Tommaso” inherits $13.3 million from lonely Italian widow
Tommaso is a former stray alley cat who now has swagger AND cash. He became the richest cat in the world when his owner Maria Assunta left him $13.3 million when she died. Assunta was the widow of a wealthy Italian property magnate. Under Italian law Assunta couldn’t leave the money directly to the cat (cat’s aren’t very good at writing checks and using credit cards anyway,) so she left it to her nurse Stefania, as the cat’s trustee.
Stefania took care Assunta during her last months, found that Assunta was very lonely, and had no idea she was so rich:
“I promised her that I would look after the cat when she was no longer around. She wanted to be sure that Tommaso would be loved and cuddled. But I never imagined that she had this sort of wealth. She was very discreet and quite, I knew very little of her private life. She only told me that she had suffered from loneliness a lot.”
Stefania also spoke with the Daily Mail, where she insisted that Tommaso still needed some help finding ways to spend his fortune. Right now’s he’s happy with milk and biscuits, but you know with the help of a swagger coach he’ll only be snacking on caviar and champagne. It’s only a matter of months before he gets his grill decked out with diamonds and emeralds, starts recording remixes with Kanye, and gets kicked off of American Airlines for refusing to stop playing Words With Friends.
Okay, so if Tommaso is the 3rd wealthiest animal in the world, who are the other ballin’ beasts?
