Widows at War: British and American Wives of War Hero Banker Both Want Him Buried in Their Own Local Cemetery – on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic – So They Can Visit His Grave

Paul Lewis Morigi was a WWII hero and a successful financier at Morgan Stanley. He passed away last year at age 97. Toward the end of the war, Morigi married Olive Murphy in Sussex. The marriage lasted only a few years and the couple divorced in 1948 due to Murphy’s refusal to leave her family and reside in the U.S. That same year, Morigi married his second wife, Muriel Morigi, who he divorced in 2011. In 2011, he returned to his first love and remarried Murphy. Now that he has passed, the two women are fighting over whether Morigi should be buried in Connecticut or in East Sussex. His body has been in storage while the families battle in court.

See Mark Duell, Widows at War: British and American Wives of War Hero Banker Both Want Him Buried in Their Own Local Cemetery – on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic – So They Can Visit His Grave, DailyMail.com, November 3, 2017.

Special thanks to Joel C. Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.