The court ruled that a civil court must resolve an appeal by Claudia Villafañe against Diego Maradona

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation decided this Tuesday, unanimously, that the civil court that intervenes in the succession of Diego Armando Maradona must also deliberate a statement from ex-wife Claudia Villafañe in connection with the rights to Amazon Prime’s “Maradona, blessed dream” TV series.

This is an action to repair Villafañe’s damage against several people, including Maradona himself before his death on November 25, 2020.

Coincidentally, the Court, unanimously, resolved that the Civil and Commercial Court n. 20 of the Judicial Department of La Plata intervene in this new case of the trial for the assets of the former number 10 of the Argentine soccer team.

In this way, the Court has today resolved cases on gender issues, the use of medical cannabis and other issues of general interest and not very close to issues of a political and institutional nature.

On April 3, 2019, Villafañe filed an action asking BTF Media SA, BTF Media LLC, Amazon Prime Video and Maradona to show and deliver a copy of the rights assignment agreement and all scripts from the series, which at the time was in progress movie-, entitled “Maradona, blessed dream”.

The request, he said, was preparatory to a preventive action and, in the alternative, to a compensatory action that would have been directed, among others, against her ex-husband. Maradona died on November 25, 2020, during the processing of the case.

Consequently, the National Court of First Instance in civil matters no. 61 and the Civil and Commercial Court n. 20 of La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, disagreed on who should understand Villafañe’s action. These are courts of different jurisdictions.

The first declared himself incompetent and ordered the proceedings to be sent to the provincial court in charge of the succession of the assets of the champion.

He believed that Maradona was a passive subject in the proceedings and stressed his existence Contractual obligations resulting from a contract for the transfer of image rights and from any intervention that should be applied to the heirs and / or to the administrator designated in the succession.

For its part, the La Plata court dismissed the case as The recipients of any compensation action have not been established that Villafañe was about to present.

In his opinion, the provisional attorney general of the nation, Eduardo Casal, has understood that the jurisdiction of attraction of the universal judgment operates. In other words: that the pre-existing trials of Maradona’s death and pending, they had to meet in the court that intervenes in the succession process.

CSJ 1973/2021 / CS1 “Villafañe, Claudia Rosana v / BTF Media SA and others on preliminary proceedings”