The Real-Life Telenovela About a $2.4 Billion Tortilla Fortune
- Graciela Moreno’s $2.6 billion inheritance backed by court
- Actress who shared tortilla baron’s last years gets nothing
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When Lorena Tassinari walked into a Dallas courtroom to claim a share of Mexico’s largest tortilla fortune, she had all the charm and fame of a former telenovela star on her side.
She still walked out with nothing. Tassinari says she married the late tortilla king, Roberto Gonzalez Barrera, aboard his luxury yacht and shared his final three years. But the Texas judge, like predecessors in Mexico, ruled in favor of Gonzalez’s wife of half a century, Graciela Moreno Hernandez.