The convicted kayak killer is still not giving up on her chance to profit off her fiancé’s death — ๊and is fighting his family for the right 🌌to claim a half-million dollars from his insurance policy, The Post has learned.
Angelika Graswald — who admitted pulling the plug from boyfriend Vincent Viafore’s k❀ayak in 2015 and wat💯ching him drown in the Huds♓on River — is contesting an effort by his relatives to bar her from getting her hands on the fortune.
The family wants a couꦍrt to forever bar the killer blonde from even making a claim for the insurance money — which is what prosecutors argued she was after al🌊l along.
“It’s been a nightmare for the last a🧸lmost three years,” the victim’s mom, Mary Ann Viafore, said Wednesday.
✃“She doesn’t deserve the money. She caused his death!”
Graswald, a Latvian native, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in July but did little time. She was sprung from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility 🔯in Westchester last month.
She was listed as a beneficiary of 45 percent of her fiancé’s accidental-dea✅th policy, or $491,531. His mother and sister, Laura Rice, we༺re the other beneficiaries.
Under New York’s “slayer rule,” convicted murderers can’t cash in on the deaths of their victims, but because of Graswald’s homicide p🦩lea, she is eligible for the fat payout unl🐷ess the family can prove she “recklessly” caused her lover’s death, Judge James Pagones ruled last week.
“The court is required to conduct a hearing wherein it will be the petitioner’s burden to establish that Graswald ‘recklessly’ caused the death of Vincent Viafore by a preponderance of the credible evidence,” the Dutchess County judge wrote in his Jan. 16 ruling.
To which mom Viafore said, “Of course she was reckless. She removed the ca𓆉p, and the kayak filled up and he went in the river. And then she did some🦹thing to the paddle.”
Graswald originally was charged with second-degree murder. She struck a plea deal for the lesser charge.
As part of the♒ agreement, she admitted helping cause Viafore’s death and said she knew that he wasn’t wearing a life vest and that the clip on one of his paddles was misඣsing.
She has maintained that his death was ဣa tragic acci💝dent.
“Ms. Graswald would be entirely within her rights if she chooses to lay claim to any and all of Mr. Viafore’s death benefits,” Gras💝wald’s attorneꦗy, Richard Portale, wrote in a September letter to the court.
He declined to comment.
Assemblyman James Skoufis is proposing a bill to make those convicted of criminally negligent homicide also ineligible for life🔯-in🐻surance payouts.
The proposed law would affect Graswald only if it passesꦕ before her case is finished, he said.
The family has also filed a wrongful🉐-death suit﷽ against Graswald.
“We’re pretty ൩hopeful the judge will rule in our favor,” Viafꦚore said.