Even though she publicly defended herself in the newspapers and published a book about her plight ("Doida, Não!" published in 1920, followed by "Doida, Não e Não!" in 1923 after her husband replied to the first with "Infelizmente Louca"), her husband and then 26-year-old son were kept in possession of the family fortune including Maria Adelaide's estate. Against her wishes, Alfredo da Cunha sold the "Diário de Notícias" in 1919, for a small fortune of 1500 "contos de réis" — after which point the paper openly started to defend the political, economic, and military sectors that would bring about the dictatorial "Estado Novo" regime in 1926.