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Millionaire mother leaves 90p to each of her daughters

A millionaire socialite has left her daughters less than a pound each because she believed they conspired in her mother’s death.

Australian Valmai Roche, who died last year aged 81, bequeathed her children and ex-husband $1.5 AUD “blood money” - worth 90p - from her estate, which is reported to be worth around £2.1m.

But two of her daughters have claimed their mother was “delusional” and are challenging her will in the South Australian Supreme Court.

The former mayoress of Adelaide left “30 pieces of silver of the lowest denomination of currency” to her family - which translates as 30 five cent coins each - claiming it was “blood money due to Judas”.

The rest of her fortune was left to the Catholic men’s charity Southern Cross, according to Australian newspaper reports.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .