However, the sons Guy and Alec (who died in 2008) told their stepmother, Sylvia Wildenstein, that he had been virtually bankrupt and convinced her to renounce her rights to his legacy to avoid problems with the taxman. Officially, her dead husband left about 30 masterpieces worth €41 million (£30 million). To pay the €17.7 million bill, they handed over bas-reliefs sculpted for Marie-Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI.