known as the BZD Club (from Beizadea), formed an uneasy alliance with the Conservatives, openly stating that they preferred Manu for the position of Prime Minister. Final years Grigore and Olga Sturdza did not have a happy marriage. He never saw himself bound by matrimonial fidelity, and continued to keep, and brag about, his seraglio that, at any time, comprised twelve concubines; commenting on this "harem", Cantacuzène noted that "customs and decency did not exist for this Sturdza prince". A widower after June 1867, Sturdza was reportedly married to another woman for some 6 months in 1874—this resulted in the birth of a son whom he did not recognize as first, and who took the name of Dimitrie Pavelescu. The Beizadea finally married Ralu Turculeț, who was reportedly a Romani woman who shocked aristocratic sensibilities with her "garish clothes and makeup". Olga had given birth to three children, all of whom died very young. A son, Dimitrie, was born in May 1856; he died before turning 16, from what was reported as a cold or a case of typhoid fever. The couple also had two daughters, Elena and Olga. The latter, noted for her unusual physical strength, had married Emanuel Vogoridi in January 1876. She became fatally ill with pneumonia after bathing in the Siret River. Elena, married with Mihai Sturdza Bârlădeanu, died in childbirth—doctors found that she was physically damaged by a routine of calisthenics, which Grigore had imposed on her in the belief that it would ease her pregnancy. The family patriarch Mihail Sturdza died in his Parisian exile on May 7 or 8, 1884. This resulted in a legal battle between Grigore Sturdza, Dimitrie Sturdza, and Maria Gorchakov. As reported by Le Matin, the latter two had conspired to defraud Grigore of his inheritance. The Sturdza civil trial began in 1891 and was taken to the Court of Cassation in 1893, and again in 1897. An initial ruling by the court of Galați commanded Gorchakov to pay her stepbrother the equivalent of 5 million United States dollars, and to transfer him the Strudza vacation residence in Baden-Baden. As reported at the time: "The judgment financially ruins the princess." This was partly upheld in March 1898, when an appellate court in Amiens ordered Goncharov to pay Sturdza 800,000 Dutch guilder in damages. The Beizadea was also fighting for the recovery of his lands, those that had been nationalized