Florida Court Divides the Estate of Guma Aguiar

A Florida court has divided up the estate of ‘vanished’ millionaire Yehuda Dovid “Guma” Aguiar, who went missing from his boat off the coast of Florida back in June of 2012.

IsraelNationalNews reports:

The court approved a compromise agreed upon by Aguiar’s wife, Jamie, and his mother, Ellen, along with his sisters Adriana and Angelika.

The sides had been in conflict over the estate, with each side claiming all of the estate for itself, and Jamie insisting at first that her husband was still alive. Jamie accused her mother-in-law of wanting to drive a wedge between her and Guma, while Ellen said that the reason Guma went out to sea on the day he disappeared was that he was distraught after Jamie told him she wants to divorce him. Jamie completely denies this version of events.

Jamie Aguiar, who was represented by Attorney Efi Abramson, will receive the huge and ornate penthouse at the Mamila neighborhood, which was renovated and designed at a high cost. The mother, Ellen, and the two sisters, who were represented by Attorney Meir Heller, will receive eight homes that Aguiar owned in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood and the Jewish Quarter.

An assessor estimated the worth of the eight properties at $27 million, while the penthouse was valued at $17 million.

Aguiar’s 15 other properties will be divided in the following manner: one third will go to Jamie, one third to Aguiar’s four children and one third to Ellen Aguiar and her daughters. Attorney Heller, who will manage the estate, will be in charge of selling the properties.

The Florida court is reportedly about to declare Guma Aguiar officially dead in the coming days.

All sides in the case are to request an Israeli court to approve the compromise as well, according to Yediot Aharonot, which said the sides did not want to comment on the report.

Guma Aguiar, a 35-year-old father of four, disappeared without a trace from aboard his 31-foot Jupiter motorboat. About six hours later, with lights on and nobody aboard, the boat ran aground on Fort Lauderdale beach. The U.S. Coast Guard abandoned its search for Aguiar after two days. He is presumed lost at sea.

Aguiar gained sudden fame in Israel as a charismatic figure who wasassociated with the Israeli religious right wing and gave generously toTorah institutes and yeshivas. He also bought Jerusalem’s Betar Yerushalayim soccer team.

3 Comments

  • nice thought

    I’d like to think that he just took alot of money and went off somewhere to have peace and no stress the rest of his life. Only HaShem knows.

  • To "Nice" Thought

    That’s a nice thought? If so he would to have hated his wife to intentionally leave her an agunah.

  • wow

    I agree 100 % with “nice thought”
    Mima Nafshach , it doesn’t change the din of his wife
    and also he can come back anytime