Boxer Gatti’s widow awarded $40,000, denied the dog

MONTREAL – Amanda Rodrigues, widow of ex-world boxing champ Arturo Gatti, has lost her bid at $150,000 of his estate – and the dog.

Instead, Superior Court Justice Paul Chaput on Thursday awarded her $30,000 to pay her legal fees, $10,000 for the couple’s young son and access to the couple’s Montreal condo to gather her belongings.

The decision comes in the preliminary round of what should be a lengthy legal battle pitting the widow against Gatti’s blood relatives.

The winner will get an estate worth at least $6 million, left after Gatti’s mysterious death at a Brazilian resort on July 11.

Earlier this week, Rodrigues, 23, didn’t utter a word as lawyers for both sides traded verbal punches over her request for an immediate support payment of $150,000 plus custody of the dog.

Initially jailed on suspicion of her husband’s murder in Brazil, Rodrigues was released in late July, after Brazilian authorities reclassified the boxer’s death a suicide.

Gatti’s blood relatives contend a 2007 New Jersey will should give the family control over his estate.

The widow argues a Quebec will notarized about three weeks before Gatti’s death gives her control over everything.