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Ever since her now deceased husband, German industrialist Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen, sold his unrivalled art collection to the Spanish state in , Carmen Cervera has rarely been out of the headlines, her not-quite rags, but certainly to riches, story, combining a glamour, art, and a good old fashioned family feud providing the gossip writers with plenty of copy.

The former beauty queen — she was Miss Spain in — says she had to sell the masterpiece to raise cash. She also has four estates, some 80 employees, and a huge yacht.

The Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection is a private collection that arose out of the enormous interest in art always shown by the Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza.

At a recent press conference, the blond, bejewelled year-old said she hoped the canvas would fetch a good price. Maybe I am in terms of the all the paintings I own. The move may have been a bid for public sympathy after she agreed to loan her personal collection, housed in an extension of the Thyssen Museum to the state for a second consecutive year, free of charge.

She was his fifth wife. All along the way there were children.

She has been an art collector since the s.

And now they are all fighting over the family fortune, including pieces in the Thysssen collection itself. In , Borja Thyssen, whom Hans Heinrich adopted, decided to lay claim to his inheritance, unleashing in the process a deluge of accusations and counter accusations. It is this inheritance that is now at stake. Worse was to come. Cervera refused to attend the wedding.

Borja understands that his wife is the cause of the rupture with his mother. With no apparent profession of his own, and a lifestyle that until now his mother has financed, those paintings must be looking fairly attractive to Borja right now. Matters between mother and son reached a new low in January , when Borja took his mother to court accusing her of unlawful appropriation of the two paintings.