Amor Vittone to fight court ruling ‘until death’
The estranged wife of late rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen, Amor Vittone, has indicated that she will appeal a court ruling that left her with little to nothing from her husband's estate.
Vittone says she will fight till the bitter end for her children.
This after the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria declared a 2015 will and testament as van der Westhuizen’s last wish.
The unsigned document, that bequeathed all his assets to the J9 Trust which their two children are the beneficiaries of - were found to be legal and valid.
“Amor Vittone may have lost her court case on loose stones today, but her children are still her rock. And for them she is going to appeal until her death. Because blood is thicker than litigation,” reads a statement posted on Vittone’s Instagram profile.
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Vittone argued that her husband’s last wishes were contained in a will they jointly drew up in August 2009.
In Vittone’s responding affidavit, she claimed that van der Westhuizen could sign the testament if he wanted to.
The rugby legend and Vittone was married in community of property until his death.
She says she couldn’t attend the court case because “she had to be there for Kylie and Jordan who are writing exams” but “the case is important to her”.
“Not only are they first in her life but it’s also the reason why she is fighting till the bitter end for them.”
She writes that she didn’t want to put Kylie (12) and Jordan (14) through more trauma.
Vittone says she’s astonished over the van der Westhuizen family’s disconnect with Joost’s children.
“They are not even interested in their sports or lives,” she wrote.
(Please note: The quotes are reasonably translated from Afrikaans text.)