Diamonds are making these girls anything but best friends.
The daughters of a deceased New York jeweler-to-the-stars and a Texas woman who claims to be his wife are fighting over his $3 million estate, including a Cartier bracelet and a grand piano.
Alexis Kirk, whose famous clients ranged from the Duchess of Windsor to Cher, Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush, died of cancer on May 17, 2010.
His two daughters, Alexia Kirk-Andrus, 44, and Lisa Kirk, 46, who both live in the Catskills, filed a will dated May 6, 2010 that gives them their father’s entire estate — minus a 1927 vintage race car that he wanted to donate to a museum.
A prior will, dated Dec. 26, 2009, was signed by Kirk and Mariam Nigosian, 67, of Houston.
That will gifts the Kirk daughters $50,000 each, but leaves the bulk of the money to Nigosian including an impressive car collection that boasts an Austin Healy, a 1985 Rolls Royce and a Lancia.
The daughters claim Kirk and Nigosian never married and as evidence note that she was not listed on his death certificate.
To disprove their claim Nigosian submitted emails to the court.
One, from Kirk to his Nigosian in 2002, reads like a Victorian novel, “We can sit under the August moon and listen to the drums of our ancestors…and love each other on a bearskin rug as we did before in Pagan times.”
A second gets right to the heart of the legal battle. It says, “My Dear Mariam: Let’s get married. I love you I want you I’m YOURS. Don’t say no- I’m begging you.”
The daughters claim Nigosian stole the Cartier bracelet and grand piano from either Kirk’s home in South Hampton or his West Palm Beach bungalow.
Nigosian told the Post that the items belong to her.
The parties are due back in court in January.