In January 2007, the Portuguese weekly Sol reported the story, and it spread around the world. At that point, the heirs were still waiting for the estate to be divided.
In a country where few people make wills, a quiet man had made one that the whole world heard about.
He had no wife, no children and no job, and he never met a single person he chose. In 1988, they were just 70 names in a Lisbon phone book. He made them his heirs.
