The battle between Olive Watson, Patricia Spado continues!

In a move to protect her lovers’ financial interest, Watson, heiress to an IBM fortune, adopted her lesbian lover Spado back in 1991 and, though they broke up one year later, the two lived together until 2005. Upon their breakup, however, Spado began going after Olive’s father Thomas’ fortune.

Unfortunately for Watson, Spado used the adoption to claim a chunk of the IBM honcho’s coffers. Olive and her family objected, saying that Spado had no claim to the wealth.

Spado, of course, disagreed, but found her dreams threatened when a judge annulled their adoption.

Like all good high society inheritance fights, this one’s returning to the courts in the form of an appeal…

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