Fischer’s daughter Jinky files claim to his estate
Ms. Marilyn Young, the Filipina live-in partner of the late chess legend Bobby Fischer has come out with her comment on the news from Iceland regarding the decision of the Iceland Supreme Court recognizing the legality of the marriage of Fischer to the Japanese Miyoko Watai.
Through her lawyer, Samuel Estimo, Ms. Young said, “It’s well that Miyoko has been declared as the lawful wife of Bobby. But I am still seeking justice for Jinky, my daughter with Bobby, who was born in Baguio City, Philippines in May, 2001.”
Ms. Young filed the claim of her daughter with the probate court of Reykjavic within the legal period, submitting in the process Jinky’s birth certificate, family fotos, bank remittances of Bobby’s financial support and the affidavit of GM Eugene Torre, Asia’s first grandmaster and long-time confidant and chief second to the chess icon in his return match with GM Boris Spassky in the former Yugoslavia in 1992.
Under Icelandic law, the lawful wife gets one-third of the estate of a deceased person while the lawful child inherits the remaining two-thirds.
Here is the full article on ChessBase.com
The girl should get money.
Well, if Icelandic law isn’t enough, we now have the word of an anonymous poster. How can the courts fight that?
Doesn’t it sound as if Fischer’s daughter, Jinky, and Ms. Young are his (Fischer’s) real family?
Did they get separated as a result of Fischer’s arrest in Tokyo airport?
Have heard that Ms. Watai and Fischer were lovers sometime after the 1972 World Championship. Did she marry him in an attempt to save him from the Japanese jail?
Either way, Fischer had nowhere to go after his release but to Iceland. And for whatever reason, neither Ms. Watai nor Ms. Young joined him there.
People should just lay off, and pass his assets onto his daughter. Let’s hope she own the rights to the 60 memorable games. It wouldn’t be fair otherwise.
Don’t know about that.
The girl does not look like Fischer to me.
Fischer doesn’t look like Fischer to me. In the end he looked like Charles Manson.