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Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...marrying Mr. Patiño was getting a bargain. Shedding the first Mrs. Patiño has been his prime-and somewhat, hazardous-objective for years. In 1942 the princess walked out and filed divorce proceedings for adultery in New York State. At the time, Patiño did not want a divorce, managed to head it off by a separation agreement stipulating that he would immediately pay his wife $500,000, with an additional $500,000 to be paid nine years later-unless he was caught committing adultery before then, in which case he was to pay the second...
...smitten with the well-bred Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
Died. Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, 55; in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Formerly Luz Mila Patiñio, the countess was the daughter of the late Simón Patiño, a Bolivian cholo (part Indian) who turned an abandoned tin mine into a fortune once estimated at $1 billion and a higher annual income than the Bolivian government, dealt out his children in marriage to Europe's thoroughbreds...
...morning last week the maid found Joanne Connelley Sweeny Patiño, 27, unconscious and pale, breathing heavily. Two hours later, the rich little poor girl was dead-of a heart attack, the doctor said. By her bedside was her mother; her last decision on behalf of the golden girl had been to send for the priest...